Move the center of the gradient up and left to have a light source.įor the eye create a white circle, duplicate it and fill the duplicate with the same radial gradient. Change the black color with a radial gradient going from completely transparent black at the center to partly transparent black at the margins. The hard part has ended, we have the basic ghost shape, we can add the eyes (a white and a black circle, duplicate) and we have a simple Pac-Man baddie.īut we will do something fancier, duplicate the ghost shape and make the duplicate black. Select (with Shift) the two nodes left and right nearest to the original bottom node and move them up a bit (with Ctrl key pressed, to restrict the movement to the vertical). You may now delete the left and right segmenting nodes to simplify the shape.
Each segment will be split with 3 new nodes. Select the right and bottom nodes and repeat the operation (two insert nodes). Select the newly created left node and the bottom node and press twice the insert new node button. Select the two newly created nodes (with Shift) and drag them to the bottom (keep the Ctrl key pressed while dragging to restrict the movement to the vertical). The process is very light, it start with some node editing, which is the hartest part, but then continues only with ellipses, gradients and some blur.ĭraw a circle using the ellipse tool (keep the Ctrl key pressed while dragging to get a circle) and then convert the circle to path ( Path > Object to Path).Ĭonvert to the node editor and add (by double-clicking) two nodes near the extreme left and right nodes of the circle. And even if you manage to gain a small victory and complete a level, the next is an even harder one, until you inevitably lose. So to unload my mind, I'll pretend to get some meaning and say some lame bullshit wise words as an excuse and to save my face: Life is like a Pac-Man game, now you are on top of the world, strong and kicking butts left and right, and in the very next moment everything turns against you and bite you in the ass. Indeed, the idea is that old, I delayed the writing because it didn't feel right in the context of my other tutorials. It's a long time since I have in mind this PacMan baddies (bad guys and bad girls from the Pac-Man game, called "ghosts" in the game) tutorial, since I made months ago a silly cartoon dedicated to the Fedora Games spin.
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