# Tanks in Perspective

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**Category:** Ignition\
**Created:** [August 13, 2020, 12:21pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tanks-in-perspective/37669 "2020-08-13T12:21:39Z")\
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**Author:** ![dkylep](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/6de8d8/32.png) [@dkylep](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/u/dkylep)\
**Post date:** [August 13, 2020, 8:20pm UTC](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/tanks-in-perspective/37669/8 "2020-08-13T20:20:25Z")

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I took a quick shot at it. It’s a lot of little steps but not overly complicated…

I put a tank on a perspective view from the symbol factory and copied the tank body path into an svg file. I opened the svg file in Inkscape. Within Inkscape I duplicated the path leaving with two black shapes that represent the body of the tank. On the front shape I recreated the metal looking gradient (copied values from perspective) so I ended up basically with a copy of the tank body. Then I cut a hole in the front shape (using Inkscape I drew a path and took the difference of the hole path and the tank body path). That left me with a hole in the ‘tank body’ to see the black shape behind it. Then I added a gradient to the back path to make it look like liquid. Then I saved the svg file ([Recommendations for svg editor - #8 by dkylep](http://forum.inductiveautomation.com/t/recommendations-for-svg-editor/29303/8)), dropped it into the perspective.

I copied each element from my new tank body and pasted it into the elements of the existing tank.

The I bound the gradient positions to a slider value and added a text layer as well. Here’s a quick GIF and I uploaded the project as well.

 ![Tank animation](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/inductiveautomation/original/3X/1/5/156612f0e9628a21c9d64ff48d9749c68b390080.gif)

[Tanks\_2020-08-13\_1604.zip](https://forum.inductiveautomation.com/uploads/short-url/sSRDUENZqRlAKJbyBaiEMTPP1So.zip) (9.3 KB)

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