gradient mesh - o - rama

[pobbly]

So Draw a circle, then draw a smaller one and place it behind the first

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[subsonique]

Make yer donut.
Make a circle the same size as the original, outer circle.
Apply gradient mesh to the new circle.
Lay the new circle on top of the donut.
Select donut and new circle.
Object > Clipping Mask > Make.

That's the only way I could get it to work.

[pobbly]

Subsonique, you win the prize for closest, best available alternative. Although I want a gradient mesh to work around the inner circular form, it's hard to explain and I can't show anyone because of the NDA for the work...but let's just say a pretzel would be the donut.

[spylaboratory]

Don't use Cmd+8 to make it a compound path.

Make sure the little circle is above the big circle, go into the Pathfinder palette and knock out the shape. It will be a donut without being a compound path.

[pobbly]

I'm not seeing this work, want to explain in more detail?

[yo_sarrian]

Can you mebbe do an Expand Path after you make the compound in the Pathfinder Palette? That's just a bit of a guess... I'm too lazy to actually test it.

[vaxwell]

I usually use expand path as well. Works a treat with any gradient.

[pobbly]

Yeah expand doesn't work. Thanks though... :O(

[deejayqueue]

yeah, somehow, when you use the pathfinder tools to make a "donut" shape, they're still compound paths, because you can still release them as such, but they work with other operations that wouldn't work if you did it from the object menu. Odd.

[pobbly]

Exactly, I was working on this thing going..."uhm have I never gradient meshed a donut before? What the hell?"

apparently I had not.

[deejayqueue]

mmm... gradient meshed donuts....garrhgahrhglalgh.... :P~

[pixeldrift]

What if you do "Expand"?