Object Wrapping

[pit]

Do the typo in Adobe Illustrator or Macromedia Freehand and import the splines (as .ai or .eps) - way faster and cleaner.

[Demonslayer]

I mean that the text is 3d circle, like it goes back.

Here, I took a screenshot of what I mean.

[Kotayus]

i tried the wrap deformer, but it kinda made the text artifacty...but thats what you want...maybe smooth it out with a phong tag? im not sure.

[Kotayus]

here ja go

[tcastudios]

I had to do something similar a few weeks a go and came to this conclusion.
You need BetterBool and MakeThicker plugins for this. The trick is to get a superclean mesh of the letters.

1- Type the word in the text object. Make sure it´s set to the default "adaptive, 5°" setting.

2-ExtrudeNurb it. The thickness is not importent. Keep it at default 20m.

3-Now make a plane set to Orientation -Z axis and subdivision 100 by 100.

4- Put the Plane in the middle of your word makin sure it covers the word.

5-Make a BetterBool set to "A intersect B" and "Create single object" activated.

6- Put the Plane and the ExtrudeNurb objects in BetterBool making sure the Plane is above the Nurb.(Put the Nurb in first)

You should now have a cutout flat word. Take a look in WireframeView.

7- Make the Boolean object editable (Press "C")

8-Move the "Plane"polygon object out and delete the other "by-products".

9- Finaly, select the "plane" and apply "MakeThicker". Set the phongTag to about "20". Ta-Daa!!

A clean word mesh that looks great in any deformer.
If you now have a "Wrap" deformer as a child to it your done.

Hope this helps.

Cheers
Lennart

[tcastudios]

Im trying to attach a picture of this but it doesn´t seem to work....

[medula]

tcastudios,

That's a hot tip! Make sure you slap this in the "tips" thread! :D

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