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  Fuzzy shapes

  Posted by Ben Dansby on September 1, 2012 at 4:12 pm

  Is there any way to make shapes conform to the pixel grid? All my squares are fuzzy. See zoomed in video here: https://dl.dropbox.com/u/3462104/edges.mov

  Here are my project properties:

  

  Simon Ubsdell replied 13 years, 12 months ago 3 Members · 3 Replies
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  Andreas Zeitler

  September 1, 2012 at 6:40 pm

  I’ve been asking this question recently as well. It’s driving me nuts. As far as I’m concerned there are no half-pixels.
  Long story short: No answer yet. So not possible.
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  Ben Dansby

  September 1, 2012 at 7:18 pm

  Very frustrating indeed.
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  Simon Ubsdell

  September 2, 2012 at 4:36 pm

  As a workaround, try setting the Falloff of your Shape Fill to 1000.

  This will crop off the semi-transparent antialiasing pixels.

  You will however need to increase the dimensions of your shape slightly to compensate.

  Also make sure that the shape position Transform isn’t using fractions of a pixel.

  Not a perfect solution but it might be of use to you.

  Note that if you are using anything other than perfect squares or rectangles you will get stepping on any non-straight edges because you will have effectively turned off the anti-aliasing.

  Simon Ubsdell
  http://www.tokyo-uk.com

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