04-13-2024, 11:06 AM
Hi, I am new to these forums and apologize if this is not the right place.
My question is, how can I make a dashed line along a curved path or something similar, and still be able to customize the spacing?
To make it clearer: I am making a map, and on this map there are going to be several dashed lines with the same size (80x25 px). However the spacing between the dashed lines is something I want to vary, so that certain places on the maps have large gaps between the dashed lines and others have close spaces between the dashed lines. Additionally I want to make the dashed lines follow smoother curves to make them prettier, as it looks wrong with straight lines.
What I've tried so far:
- Stroke path - stroke line using a line style (This works great, but I have problems varying the gaps between the dashed lines. If i set to line length to squares, I cant have more than 3 squares as spacing. This works fine some places, but I need larger spacings other places)
-Drawing the dashed lines by hand, this takes ages and is easy to mess up, and my attempts have looked awful
-using shift click with the correct angel setting and spacing to create dashed lines. The problem here is it looks too straight and therefore not good.
-Using dynamic brush "Track Direction", this doesnt work. It is simply way too innaccurate
Using windows 10 and Gimp 2.10 if that helps
Thank you for any help
My question is, how can I make a dashed line along a curved path or something similar, and still be able to customize the spacing?
To make it clearer: I am making a map, and on this map there are going to be several dashed lines with the same size (80x25 px). However the spacing between the dashed lines is something I want to vary, so that certain places on the maps have large gaps between the dashed lines and others have close spaces between the dashed lines. Additionally I want to make the dashed lines follow smoother curves to make them prettier, as it looks wrong with straight lines.
What I've tried so far:
- Stroke path - stroke line using a line style (This works great, but I have problems varying the gaps between the dashed lines. If i set to line length to squares, I cant have more than 3 squares as spacing. This works fine some places, but I need larger spacings other places)
-Drawing the dashed lines by hand, this takes ages and is easy to mess up, and my attempts have looked awful
-using shift click with the correct angel setting and spacing to create dashed lines. The problem here is it looks too straight and therefore not good.
-Using dynamic brush "Track Direction", this doesnt work. It is simply way too innaccurate
Using windows 10 and Gimp 2.10 if that helps
Thank you for any help