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#Help with Text Effect

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#195498From: Dean AudirschOct 15, 1995 6:12 PM
I am creating an animation for a client and I am having great difficulty. I want to have a little bluish vertical electrical line pass from left to right and as it passes I want to show each letter. So by the time the electrical line passes completly the text is showing. Is there a way to do this with 3D Studio and/or Animator Pro? Please, any help would be of benefit. Thanks. -DA Please e-mail me if you can.. CIS: 73553,462
#195550From: Aaron ShiOct 16, 1995 12:04 AM
Hi, Dean, I mainly use 3D Studio, so here is my suggestion to doing this elsctricity text thing. You can use the Imagine FX (from Sheriber) IPAS, which includes a lightin AXP. You can simply move the AXP accross the top of the letters to create the electircal line effect. Then for the text, you can use an animated map for opacity, such as wiping from left to right, maybe you can even fractal the aniamted bitmaps, so the edge will kind of "wave". This way, the text will show from left to right.
#195668From: Dean AudirschOct 16, 1995 9:42 PM
Thank you very much for the suggestion. What type of artwork do you do? (i.e.games, business related, etc…) -DA CIS: 73553,462