Inkscape

3D and Shadow settings

Bug #171398 reported by Stavnstrup
2
Affects Status Importance Assigned to Milestone
Inkscape
Confirmed
Wishlist
Unassigned

Bug Description

Althogh the drawing tool in Powerpoint is lowsy, it
does have a very neat feature, i.e. 3D and Shadow settings.

The figure in the URL was created in Powerpoint 2000
and then transformed to SVG.

http://nc3ta.nc3a.nato.int/website/book.asp?menuid=15&vs=0&page=volume2%2Fc
h02s06%2Ehtml

It should be possible to extend the Inkscape SVG format
to include somerthing like this:

   <g inkscape:3d x="100" y="200" width="300"
height="400" cx=" ", cy="" depth="">
     <rect x="100" y="200" ...>
     <rect ...>
     <rect ...>
  </g>

The first rectangle is the one that the user moves
around, ant the two others are autogenerated by
inscape, depending on how the user twist the first
rectangle. See powerpoint or properly any other
professional 3D drawing program.

The should also be implemented for the circle element.

Tags: ui
Revision history for this message
Bug Importer (bug-importer) wrote :

There are extrude and drop shadow extensions included with
Inkscape.

Some combination of these should do what you want.

Revision history for this message
Stavnstrup (stavnstrup) wrote :

Both the extrude and drop shadow are post processing
operations. What I would like to do is being able to
interactively manipulate and change 3D and shadow
properties, i.e. like powerpoint can do.

It looks like a relative simple change/addition. You are
still only manipulating a rectangle, but rendering a
three-dimentional object, if the 3D/Showproperties are set.

Revision history for this message
Horkana-users (horkana-users) wrote :

Inkscape 0.45 has the tools needed to create drop shadow - a
much better drop shadow than before - as can be seen from
the following screenshot. What remains is the necessary
user interface to make this as easy as possible, maybe even
a one step process.

http://inkscape.org/screenshots/
http://inkscape.osuosl.org/screenshots/gallery/inkscape-0.45-3D-rope.png

John Cliff (johncliff)
Changed in inkscape:
importance: Medium → Wishlist
status: New → Confirmed
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