Hey hi guys!

So, I was trying this thing with the tiled clones function, where I'm using shift, scale, opacity and the color options at the same time. The part that doesn't want to work and seems bugged to me since I cannot find a real and more usable solution around it, is the fact that you need to set an object to unset fill and unset stroke for the color effect of the tiled clones to work decently enough, but the trick is that when I do this on my object it becomes all black and when I do the tiled clones sequence then the others change colors but the original one not and I cannot delete it otherwise the opacity effect and only that one, disappears and the same thing happens if I try to unlink the other clones to the original one and then delete it.. I cannot even just change the color of the original one, as then all the others change color to the same color as the original one altogether and if I try to unlink it before doing that, I get what I just described here above anyhow...

So, any experience with this, are there other ways that I'm not aware of to make things work as they are supposed to the proper way? Or, is it really a bug maybe?

Thanks

I'd just unlink or move the original off the document...

Hey, thanks for your answer tylerdurden, however, as I said, if I unlink the clones they lose their opacity settings and only those ones (I don't why only opacity, but that's it..). And moving the original off the document would be ok, if I would be using this object/image only within Inkscape, but I need to export it and be able to also import it as icon and/or vector in other programs too and I see that if I import just the "final" object in a new Inkscape document without the original ones, I lose all the clones that depend from them and therefore I guess that if I would import this object in another program I would have the same problems, unless I would import the original ones and not only their clones.. but then they will appear as part of the final icon/vector and not as something separated and kind of virtually "invisible" as in Inkscape by putting them off the working space. So, how else could I do this otherwise?

Can you post a file together with a step-by-step of what you do, what happens, and what you expect to happen? Keywords are okay for the step-by-step.

Yes, here I posted the file and the link to the step by step video: https://transfer.sh/gmPzl/testvideo.mkv so that you can have a better idea. What I want to do is to create those clones in the way you can see in the video without losing the opacity settings of each clone and at the same time being able to export and import the final object in other programs too without having to have black (or unset color) originals that I don't need, standing around as part of the object, even if they really shouldn't.

Yes, this looks like a bug.

As a workaround, you can set opacity of the original to 99% (or some other value), then unlinking will not reset the opacity value of the clones. You can set the opacity of the first clone to 100% after unlinking, so you won't see any background shine through.

It could be related to the bug reported here: https://bugs.launchpad.net/inkscape/+bug/1183400

Hey Moini, thanks again for you tip, seems to work pretty well actually.

It sounds like they might be as well be connected, yes. Do you think that I should try to report this bug there? As the last report dates back to 2016/09, it seems like.

Maybe if you already put a link to the other report in? Then someone from the bug managers team can hopefully tell you more easily if this is a duplicate or not - I can't