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00:07 so I just wanted to show you a quick
00:11 demonstration of the new gradient
00:12 feature in the bevel stack we've now got
00:15 a selector button here that we can turn
00:19 on the gradients with it will default to
00:20 the original color that you may have had
00:24 set in a previous instance of the stack
00:26 and you can see we get two extra colors
00:29 to play with so we've got a mid color
00:31 and an end color it's pretty
00:35 self-explanatory I think most people
00:36 know about gradients there are a couple
00:39 of little extra tricks we can do though
00:40 with bevel first thing is we've got
00:43 three color stops here so we can play
00:46 with these if we pick the mid stop so
00:48 that's going to be the point at which
00:50 this mid color transitions to the end
00:55 color we can push that down so we just
00:58 got a little tip we can pull it back up
01:00 again if we move the base stop down
01:05 beyond the mid stop as soon as it goes
01:08 beyond the mid stock you see we start to
01:10 get us distinct line rather than a
01:12 gradient and we can take you down we can
01:15 even bring the mid stop rip down a bit
01:18 further as well and constrain the
01:20 gradient to the bottom of the bevel but
01:24 just for now let's let's push the mid
01:25 stock right the way down and let's click
01:29 this gradient follows angle button so
01:31 that sort of does what you'd expect it
01:33 to such as the gradient then follows the
01:36 angle but I wanted to show you it with
01:38 this stops adjusted because you can make
01:40 quite nice borders on the angle and if
01:41 you push it all the way then you can
01:46 essentially use the gradient like a
01:49 border which is something else that had
01:51 been asked for these are not integers
01:55 they are decimals so you can you can get
01:58 it really nice and tight if you want to
02:00 just an age on your bill let's pull that
02:03 base top back down a few other things to
02:08 note about it if you're using it
02:13 at 50% split light as in the default or
02:18 you're using it at one end or the other
02:21 for a straight bevel you can do what you
02:25 like essentially by unchecking the
02:28 gradient follows angle you will get a
02:30 flat gradient the one place you
02:33 shouldn't uncheck this is if you're
02:35 using hold splits and this is pretty
02:37 rare but if you use an odd split then
02:40 it's going to go wrong because when it's
02:42 not following the angle we're
02:44 subtracting the gradient angle from the
02:49 gradient itself and the two sides aren't
02:54 gonna match so you just turn on gradient
02:56 follows angle if you really want a
02:57 gradient when you've got a split that's
03:00 not either naught fifty or a hundred
03:02 percent let's just push that base stop
03:07 down a bit six and so we get a bit of a
03:10 distinct gradient showing again and then
03:14 we'll just have a look at a few other
03:16 things if we switch it to vertical we
03:20 get a vertical representation let's just
03:22 reduce that padding down a bit and we've
03:26 got the split let's put that back to
03:29 fifty so it's nice and symmetrical so
03:32 exactly the same things apply when it's
03:34 vertical in terms of making making edges
03:37 on the gradients and messing around with
03:41 the color stops we can turn the follow
03:45 angle off as well if we make the angle
03:47 more extreme you'll see this more easily
03:49 so it's like fifteen degrees so now it's
03:53 following the angle now it's flat again
03:56 if we make it a sharp line you can see
04:00 that very clearly and it is following
04:03 the anklet if we go back to our
04:08 horizontal level and just to take some
04:11 of this crop off because I've put a load
04:13 of padding on it you can all
04:18 so think about making different double
04:25 bevels if you like with this um if we
04:27 reduce the top stop back and we get a
04:31 nice sharp line it's a bit like a a big
04:37 fat border but we've we've essentially
04:39 made a double angle if the base color
04:42 was white of course then and we push it
04:49 all the way down past there then we made
04:53 a chevron which you could do with bevel
04:56 in other ways but that's a very quick
04:59 and simple way to do it so let's let's
05:03 pull that that base color back to some
05:06 sort of some sort of blue that looks
05:08 half decent a few other things to be
05:12 aware of if you start using inward
05:15 angles these use a portion of the height
05:20 so you stop so going to need adjusting
05:23 the the gradients will work but for
05:26 inward angles we're going to need to
05:28 push everything and which way it that
05:35 way so just play with them and you'll
05:39 you'll soon you'll soon get there so if
05:42 we push the end stop back out of the way
05:49 and there we go we've got our a gradient
05:52 if we turn the follow angle off it will
05:54 be a horizontal gradient if we now on
06:00 our inward
06:00 and we make them face upwards then these
06:03 three stops are going to have to be up
06:05 this end so let's just try and replicate
06:07 that quickly wrong way around the you
06:15 can see that there we go
06:17 we're following the angle so it's a bit
06:19 more difficult to see it's a bit easier
06:22 to see if we let me go but you saw in
06:27 there there are some quite interesting
06:29 effects that you can make
06:30 just playing with these color stops so
06:33 I'm sort of discovering as I go there
06:35 but the best way is that so
06:37 things like that for instance you could
06:40 do if you really wanted to I've don't
06:42 know why you'd want to but it's just
06:45 easy to play with and and see what you
06:48 can do and we'll put it back to facing
06:51 outwards but upwards and then you see
06:53 we've got a little splurge of color
06:58 emanating from the bottom we pushed all
07:01 the way up and replicate what we just
07:03 saw the other way so it's just a case of
07:04 playing with these color stops and you
07:06 can you can do all sorts of interesting
07:10 things so same rules apply if you start
07:14 going off without splits you're going to
07:19 get you might want something like that
07:21 could be an interesting effect and some
07:23 backgrounds I don't know but noir split
07:26 then we're going to have to adjust their
07:28 color stops to push it out but odd
07:33 splits we're going to get weird effects
07:36 no matter what we do without color stops
07:38 we'll always get that vertical line so
07:40 really unless you want to turn on follow
07:43 follow angle avoid odd split numbers and
07:47 that is gradients in a nutshell thanks
07:52 for watching"}]