If it is from a scan bitmap it is usually a matter of deleting everything that you can't see. You want shapes defined once only. Hard to explain it all with just text. For example if you have white text on a black background you don't need text shaped holes in the background for the text.
See the link I posted just a few comments ago, it’s a tutorial on manually tracing an image using Bézier curves that creates far less points than using trace bitmap
Yes. One linear gradient per decal. Once you make that gradient. Save. Unless I'm missing something, that's it.Hey everyone.
I use Inkscape for really basic logos and stuff. I've only recently found out about the gradients issue.
I've looked through countless topics and read a few pages of this topic too.
Has there been a foolproof way of getting GTS to recognize gradients created with Inkscape?
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I have some success with Inkscape by cutting offending gradient object and then paste in place. If that fails delete gradient and redo. Sometimes I even get the radial gradients to work by having them in their own layer with little else. For example this was done in Inkscape.Ahhhh OK. It's been bugging me for a few days now because I managed to get one of my decals to work and couldn't work out why. That makes sense now.
So for multiple layers it's simply a case of layering multiple decals in GT.
I had been trying to work out a way of 'pre baking' multiple gradients but couldn't get it to work.
Thanks
Hello again. I'm having trouble with decals again, this time with pixel art.
I'm trying to turn 2D pizel art sprites from the Metal Slug series into decals, without losing the boxy, pixel art style of the original sprites. However, I'm having issues with the 15kb file size limit.
I'm trying to turn this 65x56 pixel Metal Slug tank into an svg. It's too small for Inkscape to trace, so I scaled it up to 16x its size with no interpolation.
Original:
Scaled:
So, anyway, I traced the scaled up version, which got me a 81kb file. Upon closer inspection of the nodes, it seems that Inkscape puts a node in between every straight line for some reason...
Painstakingly erasing every middle node between each line for all 14 colours on the sprite, I managed to reduce the file size down to 59kb, but it's still way too big even for SVGOMG.
So, my question is, am I trying for something that's inherently impossible? Or am I doing something laughably wrong? I'm very new to svgs; if it weren't for GTS I wouldn't even know what an svg is. Any tips and tricks would be greatly appreciated. Thanks so much!
The top air race logo, the one with the white border, is a bitmap and has no place in the file. Remove it (which you have to or else it's not a valid svg) and the file was 8kb.
No, not OK. Do what I just told you to do.
You need to manually remove extra nodes. Any program that you use to scan an image into a vector will create many extra nodes you don't need.
We have a thread for requests.
Yes, although you will have to arrange the angles of the nodes either side.
I use Vector magic to scan images to vectors, but still need to use Inkscape to edit them afterwards. I haven't used any other software to make vectors.
Inkscape is fine for editing an SVG, but it does suck at scanning/tracing images (unless it's a straight forward black and white logo,) which is why I use vector magic for my scanning/tracing needs.
No, you attached the file in a message to me, you haven't attached it here.
Inkscape is free.I would love to do this but I have no money to get full version of
Vector Magic
