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Organizing too many Spline Tracks from imported EPS doc
Hello–
Just imported an eps file into RED 5, set the track shape to 3D line art and then selected convert to container.
As expected, I can now see all the layers as spline tracks.
And it appears that instead of preserving the layers from Illustrator, RED has this time around gone a step further and created a spline track for each individual element within a given layer. More specifically, two of the layers in Illustrator are words, and now there’s a spline track for each letter.
For me personally, the RED UI is a more familiar place to be than Illustrator. So here’s my question– can I make nested containers? I tried to create a second 3D container inside the one created after changing the track shape, selected a words worth of spline tracks (all of the letters of a word) then cut and pasted these tracks into a second container. The issue is that now the stuff pasted in the second container is nowhere to be found. What might I be overlooking here? I really don’t want to have to go back into Illustrator– not a big fan of adobe products
Thanks,
Max
Maxwell Federman
OwnerCapitol City Media
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1 Reply
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Hi Max,
The only thing that can exist in the Path track of a Spline Track is a Spline Object so you can’t add Containers to nest the splines. There are two options available (that I know of) to properly nest the shapes:
Automatic:
• select the
• duplicate the master spline path track that contains all of the spline object sub-tracks from your EPS file – make a copy of the track for each of the groups that you want to create (for instance, if the imported EPS was of the letters ABC, then you should have 3 identical copies of the spline track
• twirl open the spline tracks to reveal the spline objects that are nested under the path track
• delete the spline object sub-tracks from each spline track so that each master spline track has only the spline objects for each letter and no duplicates
• you can then nest all of the spline tracks into a 3d containerI hope this helps.
Peter.
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