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bravmm

04-20-2006, 08:34 PM

Hi,

I'm trying to do the following:

Have a string of text follow a (3D) spiraling curve, so it "slithers" upwards. After that I want to explode the string of text into separate sets of letters randomly.

I was looking into doing this 3D, byt maybe just plain ol' 2.5D might do the trick as well.

Any suggestions, plugins to look at etc....

cheers,

rob

bravmm

04-23-2006, 02:25 PM

any1 on this.... or must I do it in 3D after all???

DLangley

04-25-2006, 01:44 AM

Expressions are probably your best bet, combined with text animator groups.

Here is a link to a tutorial at Creative Cow.

http://forums.creativecow.net/cgi-bin/page_wrapper.cgi?forumid=1&page=http://www.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/textstream/index.html

Some of what it does may help you, but the text layers are still flat planes.
I am writing a tutorial that creates "ribbon" text which flows smoothly through 3D space with each character maintaining its relationship to the text string but having an independent relationship to a 3D motion path. The text flows smoothly around curves, up and down slopes and trough changes in rotation. The random exploding characters can likely be added to this concept.

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