Making a compass rose shouldn’t be too hard, making a good looking one might be a bit trickier. At first do some test strokes that you later delete so you understand the logic behind the symmetry, it’s not that complicated. The work area will now look like in the picture below and it is time to start drawing. Select Set number of Segments and put in the number you like, the maximum number of segments are twelve, but in this case we only use eight. This will open up a new menu as seen in the picture below. Point with mouse at the circle in the middle of the picture and click with the left mouse button. If you however also want the rose to include NE,SE,NW and SW you have to increase the symmetry segments to eight instead of four. If you like to have a compass rose that only shows N,S,E and W this will do fine. This means that if you draw something in one square the stroke will be repeated in the three others. This will give you the default symmetry where the picture is divided into four squares. Here is a quick tutorial on how to make a compass rose as the one in the picture at the top of this post.įirst of all start up Artrage and click Tools-Paint Symetry-Paint Symmetry, as in the picture below.

For example I started to experiment doing compass roses, and to my surprise the symmetry paint feature is a big help.

One of the new features in the program is that you can draw in symmetry, or as it is called in Artrage Paint symmetry.įirst when I bought the program I didn’t think much of this feature but after some testing I’ve realized that it really has some great potential. The other day I decided to upgrade my version of Artrage from 3.5 to the new 4.0.

Artrage 3.5