Questions for Fester about rivets

[oboe]

Fester,

Do you make ALL you dark rivets anti-aliased, or just the ones that are angled or curved lines?   I found I can make all of the rivets AA by rotating the set of rivets points a few degrees and then rotating them back and just wondered how you did it.

Also, do you anti-alias your white rivets?   I could see going either way on this, but lean towards not AA since they represent light reflection.

[MotleyCH]

I don't think he does use anti-alias on the rivets..maybe some of the lines.

If you got all your rivets done on a layer..you can duplicate that layer, then use colors/negative. Now you will have a layer of white rivets and a layer of black rivets. Then you can move that layer a pixel to give it a 3D effect. Then you adjust those layers opacity's to get the right look.

[Citabria]

straight vertical or horizontal rivets I just make as single pixel dots 3-4 pixels apart usually with the pencil tool. tend to draw a couple and cut and paste and merge them togetehr to get a longer line.

I then copy this line adn rotate it as needed to layout straight angled antialiased rivet lines.

I make curved lines a couple ways depending on what day it is and which technique I have forgotten...

using a single pixel paint brush and holding shft button down to draw the arc in a series of tiny straight lines similar to a wire frome then use the marque tool to make some vertical or horizontal boxes and cut the curved line apart into single pixels to represent dots.

or somtimes use the marque tool to draw the shape of the curved line and then use paint bucket then move the marque box over and up or down then delete the rest leaving an antialiased curved line then I cut it up with a series of box marques tied together.

tedious and backwards and lacking technical proficiency of a better more expedient method but thats what I do and it gives me the results I want.