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title: "Adjustment"
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section_path: "Sketch and Toon > Sketch Material > Adjustment"
element_id: "MTOONUP"
group_id: "OUTLINEMAT_GROUP_ADJUSTMENT"
description: "The Adjustment tab enables you to make various adjustments to the lines. For example, you can offset the lines from the geometry, rotate them in 3D space …"
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## Adjustment

The Adjustment tab enables you to make various adjustments to the lines. For example, you can offset the lines from the geometry, rotate them in 3D space and add overshoots.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
Stroke

![Image: 002898.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002898.jpg)\
Original stroke (left), re-sized with Recalculate enabled (center) and re-sized with Recalculate disabled (right). For the center and right cube, Start and End were set to 40% and 80% respectively.

### Resize Strokes

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKE_RESIZE`

### Start

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKESTART` · Range: [0..100%]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKESTART_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### End

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKEEND` · Range: [0..100%]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKEEND_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### Recalculate

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_STROKE_RECALC`

To shorten the lines, enable the **Resize Strokes** option and set the **Start** and **End** values to where the lines should start and end as a percentage of their original length. Use the **Variation** values to vary the start and end for each line. Enable the **Recalculate** option to fit the stroke's properties such as color and thickness to the start and end of the stroke.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
HSV

![Image: 002900.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002900.jpg)\
From left to right: original lines and HSV values all set to 20%, 50% and 100%.

### H

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_HSV_H` · Range: [0..100%]

### S

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_HSV_S` · Range: [0..100%]

### V

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_HSV_V` · Range: [0..100%]

The HSV settings vary the color of each stroke (or line segment if strokes are disabled) based on a percentage variation of the original color. You can enter a separate percentage for hue (H), saturation (S) and value (V). 0% means no variation, 100% means maximum variation.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
Screen Offset

![Image: 002902.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002902.jpg)\
From left to right: original stroke, with Start offset, with Start and End offset, with positive X and Y offset.

### Start

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_START` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_START_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### End

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_END` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_END_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### X

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_X` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_X_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### Y

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_Y` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OFFSET_Y_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

The **Start** and **End** settings offset the line based on the direction of the Normals at the start and end of the line (center oil tanks). You can also offset the stroke using the **X** and **Y** boxes, which define how many pixels to offset the stroke in the computer screen's **X** and **Y** directions (right oil tank). The Variation boxes vary the offset per stroke. 0% means no variation, 100% means maximum variation.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
2D Transform

![Image: 002904.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002904.jpg)\
1 Original stroke; 2 Stroke with Scale X; 3 & 4 Scaled stroke with Start pivot (3) and Center pivot (4); 5 Rotate value set to 10°.

### Pivot

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ADJUSTMENT_TRANSFORM_PIVOT`

### Scale X

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_SCALE_X` · Range: [-∞..+∞%]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_SCALE_X_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### Scale Y

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_SCALE_Y` · Range: [-∞..+∞%]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_SCALE_Y_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### Rotate

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ROTATE_X` · Range: [-∞..+∞°]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_ROTATE_X_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

The 2D Transform settings scale and rotate the lines in the two dimensions of the computer screen. The **Pivot** setting defines the center of rotation and scaling: **Start** and **End** for the start or end of the line, **Center** for the center of the line, or **Object** for the center of the object. The **Variation** boxes vary the scale and rotation per line. 0% means no variation, 100% means maximum variation.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
Overshoot

![Image: 002906.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002906.jpg)\
Use Overshoot to add extensions to lines. Image © 2003 by Artur Bala.

### Relative

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_RELATIVE`

### Start

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_START_REL` · Range: [0..100%]

### Start

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_START` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_START_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

### End

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_END_REL` · Range: [0..100%]

### End

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_END` · Range: [-∞..+∞]

### Variation

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_OVERSHOOT_END_VAR` · Range: [0..100%]

The **Overshoot** settings add straight extensions to the lines. The **Start** and **End** boxes define the length of the overshoots at the start and end of the line, either as a percentage of the line's length (**Relative** enabled) or in pixels (**Relative** disabled). The **Variation** boxes vary the length of the overshoots per stroke. 0% means no variation, 100% means maximum variation.

![Image: subgroup.gif](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/subgroup.gif)\
3D Transform

![Image: 002908.jpg](https://help.maxon.net/c4d/en-us/Content/Resources/Images/002908.jpg)\
1 Original; 2 Movement with P.X and P.Y; 3 Movement with P.Z (i.e. towards or away from the camera); 4 Scale with S.X and S.Y; 5 Rotation with R.H and R.P.

### Transform

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_REPOSITION`

### P

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_REPOSITION_POSITION` · Range: [XYZ m]

### S

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_REPOSITION_SCALE` · Range: [XYZ ]

### R

Parameter ID: `OUTLINEMAT_REPOSITION_ROTATION` · Range: [HBP °]

These settings change the position (P), scale (S) and rotation (R) of the lines in three dimensions. The Transform option switches the transformation on or off.