eightyf
01-19-2007, 06:38 PM
After weeks and weeks of frustrating setbacks and try and error, my first plugin LOONY LETTERS is finally coming to an end - well at least almost.
It's a typo animation plugin which lets you create flash like textanimations in no time.
Watch a little trailer here: LoonyLettersMini (http://www.c4d-goodies.de/images/loony_letters_mini.mov) (QT 3.66MB)
Unfortunately it is very unstable on some systems and Cinema 4D crashes without any recognizable reason.
If you are interested in maybe finding the cause and / or want to contribute to making this little plugin better and more interesting feel free to download it.
This way ---> Loony Letters Zipfile (166KB) (http://www.c4d-goodies.de/images/loonyletters.zip) <----
btw. the final version will of course be freeware, so there are no commercial interests.
Simply unzip the file into the plugins folder - that should be all.
Loony Letters used to crash C4D on my system very often - after I ran it through the compiler it hasn't crashed once. Unfortunately this seems to apply to not many other users :-(
Working with Loony Letters:
- Create textspline
- Right-click on the text and select Loony Letters
- The following dialog will pop up (still the old name in the title tsk, tsk, tsk...)
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/loony_letters_screenshot.gif
Activate - no function yet.
Animate In / Out - set the parameters for animating the text in or out.
Animate IN - If this checkbox is disabled, no animation will happen, the whole text will be faded in.
Start - first frame of the animation
Duration of the animation in frames.
Fade-in - Duration in frames how long the letters take to fade in / out. Max time is animation duration-1
Direction - This setting defines in which order the letters appear: from left to right, none (offset will be disabled and all letters will be animated simultaneously) or right to left.
Offset - This defines the pause between two letters in Frames. Real numbers are possible. A value of 0.5 means e.g. that 2 letters will appear per frame.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_value_icon.gif - the animating parameters.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_smooth_icon.gif - Smoothvalue. This setting defines how many frames the animation of a specific parameter eases out / or in. Max value is duration-1, a value of 0 produces a division by 0 error.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_variation_icon.gif - Variation of the animation parameters in percent. A parameter value of 100 with a variation setting of 25% means for example that possible values vary between 75-125.
Random-Seed - Initial random value...
Extrude - Loony Letters splits up the textspline into single letters and puts them underneath an extrude-object in the OM. The value defines the extrusion depth.In later versions it will be possible to set all the parameters that are used in the "original" extrude object like caps,steps etc...
Known issues, bugs
As mentioned before: this plugin is still in development. It got more stable by compiling it, but still there are some problems and / or bugs.
Activate has still no function assigned to it.
If you change the animation duration, the max settings for fade or smoothvalue cannot be set to their new max (animduration-1) until the dialog is opened again.
When changing the font of the textspline, Loony Letters is not able to initialize the letter objects. In that case, open up the dialog again (exit with OK, not with Cancel) or delete the Loony Letters Null Object.
When using multiple Loony Letters tags, sometimes a new extrude value won't be recognized or all other Loony Letters opject have the same extrusion value. Working on it.
Sometimes C4D crashes with no apparent reason. I heard, that exiting the dialog with Cancel is one of those reasons. Can't confirm this yet, but I might have a solution for it.
I guess that's all for now.
One thing, though: Loony Letters has been tested on one system only - a PIV 3.8, WinXP and C4D vs.9.6. Someone told me, that I works on R10, too, but I can't promise.
This is a pre-beta version, so I take no responsibility for any crashs or whatever.
But if you want to participate in developing this thing, maybe you can help me, make Loony Letters a useful, little helper for our works.
And please keep in mind: I am still a beginner ;-)
Hopefully you will have a little fun with it,
thanks
André
It's a typo animation plugin which lets you create flash like textanimations in no time.
Watch a little trailer here: LoonyLettersMini (http://www.c4d-goodies.de/images/loony_letters_mini.mov) (QT 3.66MB)
Unfortunately it is very unstable on some systems and Cinema 4D crashes without any recognizable reason.
If you are interested in maybe finding the cause and / or want to contribute to making this little plugin better and more interesting feel free to download it.
This way ---> Loony Letters Zipfile (166KB) (http://www.c4d-goodies.de/images/loonyletters.zip) <----
btw. the final version will of course be freeware, so there are no commercial interests.
Simply unzip the file into the plugins folder - that should be all.
Loony Letters used to crash C4D on my system very often - after I ran it through the compiler it hasn't crashed once. Unfortunately this seems to apply to not many other users :-(
Working with Loony Letters:
- Create textspline
- Right-click on the text and select Loony Letters
- The following dialog will pop up (still the old name in the title tsk, tsk, tsk...)
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/loony_letters_screenshot.gif
Activate - no function yet.
Animate In / Out - set the parameters for animating the text in or out.
Animate IN - If this checkbox is disabled, no animation will happen, the whole text will be faded in.
Start - first frame of the animation
Duration of the animation in frames.
Fade-in - Duration in frames how long the letters take to fade in / out. Max time is animation duration-1
Direction - This setting defines in which order the letters appear: from left to right, none (offset will be disabled and all letters will be animated simultaneously) or right to left.
Offset - This defines the pause between two letters in Frames. Real numbers are possible. A value of 0.5 means e.g. that 2 letters will appear per frame.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_value_icon.gif - the animating parameters.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_smooth_icon.gif - Smoothvalue. This setting defines how many frames the animation of a specific parameter eases out / or in. Max value is duration-1, a value of 0 produces a division by 0 error.
http://c4d-goodies.de/Images/ll_variation_icon.gif - Variation of the animation parameters in percent. A parameter value of 100 with a variation setting of 25% means for example that possible values vary between 75-125.
Random-Seed - Initial random value...
Extrude - Loony Letters splits up the textspline into single letters and puts them underneath an extrude-object in the OM. The value defines the extrusion depth.In later versions it will be possible to set all the parameters that are used in the "original" extrude object like caps,steps etc...
Known issues, bugs
As mentioned before: this plugin is still in development. It got more stable by compiling it, but still there are some problems and / or bugs.
Activate has still no function assigned to it.
If you change the animation duration, the max settings for fade or smoothvalue cannot be set to their new max (animduration-1) until the dialog is opened again.
When changing the font of the textspline, Loony Letters is not able to initialize the letter objects. In that case, open up the dialog again (exit with OK, not with Cancel) or delete the Loony Letters Null Object.
When using multiple Loony Letters tags, sometimes a new extrude value won't be recognized or all other Loony Letters opject have the same extrusion value. Working on it.
Sometimes C4D crashes with no apparent reason. I heard, that exiting the dialog with Cancel is one of those reasons. Can't confirm this yet, but I might have a solution for it.
I guess that's all for now.
One thing, though: Loony Letters has been tested on one system only - a PIV 3.8, WinXP and C4D vs.9.6. Someone told me, that I works on R10, too, but I can't promise.
This is a pre-beta version, so I take no responsibility for any crashs or whatever.
But if you want to participate in developing this thing, maybe you can help me, make Loony Letters a useful, little helper for our works.
And please keep in mind: I am still a beginner ;-)
Hopefully you will have a little fun with it,
thanks
André