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a few arrows along a path - denzjos - 09-11-2019
Is there a gimp plugin that can place a few arrowheads on a path in a way that the arrowheads are following the path direction. NOT as the example below :
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Thanks in advance for a solution.
RE: a few arrows along a path - Blighty - 09-11-2019
1. Make an arrowhead brush
2. Gimp has a built in dynamic "Track Direction". Use that.
3. Set brush spacing to a large value, say 150%
4. Edit > Stroke Path
You can easily make your own dynamics if needed (if Gimp doesn't have a convenient built-in one).
RE: a few arrows along a path - denzjos - 09-12-2019
In the 'stroke path' panel I have to set ' Emulate brush dynamics ' on, otherwise it don't give the result I want (or like your example Blighty).Thank you for the tip, I now discovered that one have more options if one click on the icon with the blue arrow and the three red points. Discovering the possibilities with Gimp is every time a revelation.
RE: a few arrows along a path - Electrix - 09-19-2020
I'm trying to re-stroke about 400 paths in GIMP project using method described by Blighty in post #2 and I've noticed a weird "bug". Angle of the first arrow (at the beginning of the path, left/top on the attached image) is always the same no matter the path direction. Seems like the "Track Direction" dynamics doesn't work if there are no prior points.
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Are you guys aware of some workaround for that?
RE: a few arrows along a path - Krikor - 09-19-2020
In addition to the method described in post #2 by Blighty, there is the ofn-brush-strokes-on-path plug-in.
Using the Edit - Stroke Path method I also encountered a problem with the angle of the last arrow.
With ofn-brush-strokes-on-path there was no such problem.
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