Hey folks, I'm having a hard time finding a way of doing something that I suspect Inkscape is capable of handling: I have a rectangular image representing one slice of a road (from a top-down perspective). I'd like to create a network of curved roads that look like this image. However, I haven't found any way of either warping the image, so it follows the roads curvature... or making several duplicates of the texture along a curved guide path. Any suggestions on how I might get a curved road segment in Inkscape based on the appearance of a small rectangular image?

Here's an old topic http://www.inkscapeforum.com/viewtopic.php?f=5&t=3960&hilit=road+pattern+on+path that is kind of what you are asking? Of course your road pattern needs to be vector, you will have to trace it first. It needs the pattern on path extension, not LPE, in order to use a group, which makes it not editable later. you might want to use the lpe and make as many copies as needed and put a different pattern on each.

LiquidAsh wrote:I'd like to create a network of curved roads that look like this image.

Did you forget to insert the image? Or do I misunderstand?

@brynn - I was just referring to the image of a road that I described in the previous statement.
@druban - the road pattern started out as vector-based, but was too complex to use in that form. Thanks for the suggestions though. I've gotten around this limitation for my current application...