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Metaballs figma


Stephen_Harris

Hello

I’m trying to create a shape using the metaballs plugin. I create my elipses and then select all the items I want included, however, when I click create it just says ‘selected circles aren’t circle layers’. Does anyone know what I’m doing wrong? Its really frustrating.

Thank you

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Klesus
  • 237 replies
  • March 9, 2022

Since it’s a plugin only those familiar with the plugin would be able to give an accurate answer.

But could it be because you are using ellipses and not circles?


Roman_Liminal_Designer

Hey @Stephen_Harris, could you record a demo to show the trouble?

It might happen for several reasons:

  • At least one of your circles/ellipses has a different width and height. They must be equal.
  • At least one of your circles/ellipses was drawn in the wrong way.

For example, you drew a rectangle with rounded corners, so it looks exactly like a circle, but the plugin identifies it as a rectangle.

Or it can be more tricky if you created a circle but then flatten it, so the plugin identifies it as a vector. How to understand it?

Each ellipse in Figma has an Arc tool. See the video explanation below.
p.s. Well, the video doesn’t work for now, trying to fix it.

Video

Metaballs figma - YouTube


djv
Figmate
  • Community Support
  • 4946 replies
  • March 9, 2022

Hey @Stephen_Harris,

Reaching out to the plugin creator’s support is your best option: Issues · girafic/Figma-Metaball-Plugin · GitHub


  • 1 reply
  • December 4, 2023

hey i had the same issue then i figure that the circle didnt had same height and width so its not a perfect circle. just make sure when you make a shape its H&W are same then it works


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