| Tutorial: Making 3D Text In Motion3 |
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Page 6 of 7  By doing this 2 things have happened. First of all the layer order has changed, so flip the chrome style layer to the top of the group. Secondly we have obscured the original text as the Replicator has expanded out in all directions. No amount of tweaking with Mark Spencer on iChat for an hour managed to fix this, so please let me know if you can set the replication direction. One tip here, the Origin control doesn’t apply to the replication direction. This looks good, but the depth is far too much, so adjust the depth slider in the Size dropdown of the Replicator to about 80 or so. You might get a slight dealy in this working as you have 50 layers in there remember!  In the Properties tab of the Replicator, click on the Transform triangle which should give you access to the Z position. Adjust this slider into the negative values to push the extrusion behind the chrome text. Here I’ve used –40. You can fine control this by clicking on the little triangles either side of the number. Fantastic, you should now have some 3D text! Lets do some movement to try it out. Either rotate the group or move the camera.Cool, it all looks good but maybe a bit slow – remember the ranks control in the Replicator? Adjust this to give you the best performance between speed and a smooth looking edge as you are looking at a ‘deck of cards’ all stacked up behind each other. A note here is that if you rotate the whole thing side on, you will see right down though the layers. This is because each ‘card’ hasn’t any Z thickness, we are cheating a bit here remember! |
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