- Create the geometries/arrows you will apply the gradient texture to. It often helps to draw more than what you need and then erase the parts you don’t want.
- Create an image that is a gradient from a solid color to transparent. Images sized 1024 x 1024 pixels work well.
- Import your gradient-textures as Images (Not Textures, Not Matched Photo). Position and explode. The images will project when sampled with the Sample tool. Images with transparencies will be applied to both front and back surfaces by default.
- Sample your exploded textures with the eye-dropper tool (with paint bucket tool active, hold
command
on a mac, oralt
on windows) Apply the sampled textures to your arrow shapes. Erase geometries you no longer need, hide the arrow edges, and turn them into components. Position as necessary to help communicate your idea!
gradient arrows.skp (431.4 KB)