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#Text Morph problems

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#22423From: KAREN MASONAug 26, 1992 11:10 PM
I'm trying to Morph boxes into text. I import the Text shapes into the Shaper, copy the shape, and move the points to new locations When I try the Morph in the Keyframer, it works but it seems to render extra faces. Is there any way I can fix this. Thanx… f
#22428From: Yost GroupAug 27, 1992 1:04 AM
When you morph text, you've got to be incredibly careful about how the end-caps get moved during the morph operation. The basic limitation of our morph routine is that end-caps do not get re-capped dynamically during the morph… the points on the caps just get displaced to the new morph positions. When the caps are severely displaced, it can cause smoothing irregularities and other face artifacts. Sometimes you can cover these artifacts up by texture-mapping the surface. Better still, try being a little creative and morph the text to an intermediate object and then scale the intermediate object down as you scale up the object that it's supposed to morph into. – G
#22453From: Yost GroupAug 27, 1992 10:36 AM
To add to what Gary said, you can also cheat by using Video Post to crossdissolve to different (perfectly modeled) objects at the end of the morph. – Jack
#22474From: Rock RichardsonAug 27, 1992 3:08 PM
if your going from the box to the letter you may have problems, try going from the letter to the box and then render backwards. Rock