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The eight symbolism tools

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The eight symbolism tools

In this exercise I am going to run you through the eight symbolism tools starting with an alternate use for the Symbol Sprayer tool and ending with this guy the Symbol Styler. You may recall I went ahead and tore off this mini toolbox of the tools here. Now many of these tools suffer from the same performance issues as the Symbol Sprayer, so pretty much everyone from Symbol Sprayer over to Symbols Spinner, they have got issues. And they are not going to work too well inside of Symbol Sets. However, all is not lost, because you may wonder, well, in that case Deke, why are you even showing them to us, if it is just going to lead to disappointment? Well, the answer is, because they can be useful on individually selected instances and we'll see how that works in an upcoming exercise. But for now, I want you to know that I have two versions of this illustration open, Sporadic grass.ai and that's the one that I have created in front of you in a previous exercise with this anemic grass…

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