I need to create a spline roto to recreate a telephone cable, can anyone suggest a simple way to do this?
Edit: nevermind! Are you talking about like a coiled cable coming off of a handheld receiver telephone?
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Exactly, at the moment I’m using matte edge on a tracer, but obviously not the best solution as its a closed shape.
It seems such a simple thing but to my knowledge has never been achievable other than in desktop paint and even thats pretty bad.
Not at the box but isn’t there a way to draw an open spline in action?
Whoa, thats perfect.
So thats been there since 2105?
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Yup… one can even track the vertices if I’m not mistaken… could help with the cord. 
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Why not using an open spline in the tracer? A-Shift-Click to define the width with the softness, tweak the softness curve to give it more opacity?
1000% you can track with the open gmask. Also, you can bump up the “intensity” parameter on it to get some extra heft and less of a gradient/ more of a solid shape.
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I would love a visual on what you guys are talking about.
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Not that, it’s to replace the spaghetti of cable on the floor from a phone and answer machine.
Lots of good advice here, thanks.
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worth playing around with the gradient curve and also the Intensity slider too get the right softness along with the gradient if its thin. i find the default settings are too soft in the middle of an open spline gmask usually. Upping samples to 4 as well.