Wednesday, May 22, 2013

Generate a set of buttons for game in FXG format using Adobe Illustrator

We already mentioned importance and convenience of using "artboards" in Adobe Illustrator. Now we'll tell you how to make a set of buttons you need from a single *.ai file right in FXG format.

Buttons usualy have Up and Down states. We suggest you to make 2 rows of artboards in Adobe illustrator file. First row for Up button state, second row for Down button state. Common thing for each row is shape and design. So you need to draw different button templates for Up state and Down state. Each one should be in different artboard.