In Inkscape a 3D box is basically a well hidden (from user) group of six paths plus some extra metadata. So let’s disable parallelism of edges, position the object the way we need it, define final size and change colors. In that very case the box should have three vanishing points. But we are placing the first-aid kit angled towards horizon. This is useful when you need to picture an object in one plane, say, a horizontal plane.
And you can also change size and color of sides.īy default one of the vanishing points is set to infinity. The great thing about it is that you can drag around the created 3D box in 2.5D to pick the point of view that suits the project best. It’s very handy for creating bases for buildings, all sorts of boxes, furniture and so on. Inkscape has a specialized tool to draw 3D boxes. Would you want starting everything from scratch again? There is a better way. All right, you use them and create three visible planes and fill them with color… only to discover that you now want to change your point of view slightly. Then you are likely to recall that Inkscape has guides (you drag them from rulers), so you can use them to create lines that define vanishing points. But you just try to do it by sketching and you’ll see that unless you have a very good sense of perspective, the box will look clumsily. It doesn’t really sound any complicated, because it’s basically a simple box. The very first thing to do is creating a base for the image. So this time let’s draw a computer’s first-aid kit. Besides, some tools that are very much 3D related weren’t even mentioned back then. However one tutorial cannot possibly fit all the tricks I would like to share with you.
In the previous tutorial I explained basics of creating 3D looking objects in Inkscape using a snowman as an example.
The tutorial provides example of using 3D box tool in Inkscape to create a base for a complex object in perspective and explains drawing complex shadows.
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