#Mo Help on 3DS
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Hi All!
I need another suggestion. I need to take a string of text, slice it into
little vertical pieces, then slide each vertical strip in horizontally from the
right. I have done this with the string, one letter at a time and the effect is
cool. But the client wants the letters sliced vertically so that instead of a,
say, 30 character string, there are 100 little skinny strips. Is there an easy
way to do this? I thought of booleaning the whole thing, but that would be
extremely tedious. As you can imagine, this is a low budget titles effect. Oh
yea, it also has to be rendered in 4Kx3K for film. Does anyone know if, at that
high res, is anti-aliasing really necessary? It would obviously be much faster
to render without anti-aliasing. Thanks for any input. One other thing, is this
what the new SLICE IPAS is for? If so, I'll order it right away!
Doug (another last minute project) Wolfgram
GRAFX Entertainment
– Doug Wolfgram/GRAFX, Written 13-Jun-1994 @ 20:03:15
Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.2
Doug,
I wouldn't be surprised if there was a type 1 font with the vertically sliced
style you described. If you have Corel 3,4 or 5 you might look through the font
sheet.
Otherwise, I would slice up the polygons in the 2d shaper using segment/refine
before lofting.
Doug, try booleaning the text while you are still in the *2D Shaper*. This will
be much faster, and you could then loft all your new "strip text pieces" in one
fell swoop. You could even set up your text with a bunch of quads for
booleaning, and just go down the row. Should be pretty fast, I'd guess (hope?).
Although I've never rendered at that high res for film, I can't imagine
rendering *anything* final without anti-aliasing.
Hope this helps,
-Alan
>>slicing text…
Doug, the SLICE IPAS won't do what you want. There would be great value,
however, in an arbitrary-plane slicer IPAS.
You're message was not clear on one thing. I suspect you want [A] thin sliced
letters such that when they are at rest at the end they form solid, completely
formed letters. ? Or do you want [B] the final letters to be a sliced font
with thin slices separated by space?
Just for fun, I tried to slice letters, two ways. (Assuming option [A] above,
you have to boolean two sets of letters, each with alternating rectangles, then
combine.) For booleaning after lofting, I made three letters, snap/created a
bunch of thin boxes, attached them all into one obj., tessellated with
OPTIMIZE, and boolean/subtracted the whole mess. I took a while, but worked
OK.
Alan's 2d shaper/booleaning worked quicker. I snap/made a bunch of quads,
subtracted one at a time, then lofted. The only catch here is for letters made
of more than one poly, like "o", which take a little extra effort.
JKJ
Yes, I need them to look like single letters when done. I thought of the
boolean approach, etc., but that is too tedious for this little titling job.
Thaks for the input. Right now, I am trying to convince the client that the
letters look good whole!
– Doug Wolfgram/GRAFX, Written 15-Jun-1994 @ 08:24:36
Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.2
How about having multiple identical letters comming in out of phase from the
right? For example, bring in five "A"s at slightly different times (and/or
trajectories) to merge into one at the end. Each could be a different color,
perhaps transparent. Hey, I might try that myself!
JKJ
Hey! How about multiple copies with striped opacity maps!!!!!!! Great idea!
– Doug Wolfgram/GRAFX, Written 15-Jun-1994 @ 15:21:48
Using: Windows NavCIS PRO 1.2