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Sleepyoreo

05-22-2003, 06:29 PM

Hello there.

havent been here for w hile mostly because i started working in comercials and lost my motive and inspiration.

i would like to ask if someone can explain how can i get that 3d depth of text ?
i imprted a targa and i made it rotate on the z line but i want it to have depth like 3d...

plz help if u can

thanks

oreo

arvid

05-22-2003, 07:45 PM

The only possible way would be a plugin that generates something that looks like 3D, but it wouldn't accept a TGA, it would only accept raw text or possibly EPS files. However I dont know if there is such a plug.. sorry :hmm:

Sleepyoreo

05-22-2003, 07:57 PM

i thought it has to do with the settings of the transfrom modem after adding a 3d laYer...somthing like that..
jee im confused...:eek:

dmeyer

05-22-2003, 08:16 PM

The Boris stuff does the extruded text look you're after.

arvid

05-22-2003, 08:46 PM

Originally posted by Sleepyoreo
i thought it has to do with the settings of the transfrom modem after adding a 3d laYer...somthing like that..
jee im confused...:eek:

nope sorry, afx only works with flat planes, it's not more 3D than that

Sleepyoreo

05-22-2003, 09:02 PM

so u say after effects 5 works same as flash mx i mean in the same idea of shading and notreal z line?

soz for being so messed up here... :p

dmeyer

05-22-2003, 09:04 PM

It's 2.5D....meaning that you can rotate objects in 3d space all you want, but you're still only rotating a flat plane.

eudemonie

05-23-2003, 08:54 AM

what about the ae <-> cinema 4d plug in?

Sleepyoreo

05-23-2003, 09:37 AM

so in the ae movies i see which has a 3d objects with in ,,,,
they are importing a 3d object via codec??
help!!! im in tottal lost now..
:scream:

arvid

05-23-2003, 09:40 AM

They most likely created 3D objects in a real 3D program, c4d, max, maya, xsi, lw, whatever, rendered them out to bitmap images and imported those as a clip. (trying to be as clear as I can :D)

webster

05-23-2003, 09:59 AM

Try this:

http://www.zaxwerks.com

itßs called invigorator

Sleepyoreo

05-23-2003, 11:37 AM

thanks a lot!

ill let u know how it works on sunday...

cheeeeeeeeeeeers:applause:

05-28-2003, 09:28 AM

I'm not sure if I undesrtood you right but here goes

I think the best way to do 3D stuff is using a 3D app (XSI,Maya,S3D,LW,Max...), but if all you need is a extruded text you can use Zaxwerks Invigorator 3D for AE wich is a plugin that accepts 3D objects and extrude vector files into 3D space, is pretty good for simple stuff, if things start to get a little to bit fancy go for a 3D app.

I hope that helps,
See Ya!:thumbsup:

Sleepyoreo

06-16-2003, 09:34 AM

ahoooy there!

well i am about to test this zaxwerk thing-e here...
cross fingures plz

ha! good luck

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