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malikai666
08-19-2003, 02:20 PM
Ive been trying this for the last 2 days and I keep running into walls.
I have a 3 d letter wich I want the side surfaces to grow onto, Basically starting from the ground going up and around the curves(in this case a lowercase n) and connecting to the other side where they meet. Ive tried mormphs but they end up being to linear and dont follow the contour of the letter as they grow they simply start off small and increase in size over time rather than growing around the surface. So how is this done. Ive seen it in the movies on commercials. Ive heard that maya has something that will record as you build a model but does lightwave? otherwise how do I do this ?
Dodgy
08-19-2003, 05:06 PM
Try using an animated boolean using this plugin...

http://www.shift.gr.jp/plugins/BooleanTexture.zip

You apply it as a procedural texture in the clip map area, to both your objects (the text, and say a covering box). Try looking at the examples...
munky
08-21-2003, 10:22 AM
have you tried having the sides as as seperate layers and using a clip map animating upwards to reveal them?

regards

paul
malikai666
08-21-2003, 11:01 AM
yeah the clip map thing seems to work the best, but there are just so many layers, I would think that there would be an easier way. basically the effect would be like the movie time machine when it shows the citys being built etc.
Dodgy
08-21-2003, 12:05 PM
Try using the animated boolean.... You animate a block going up and uncovering the letter, and it's subtracted from the letter, as below...
malikai666
08-21-2003, 12:29 PM
hey dodgy that looks more like it ill try that today, Thanks,
is there any thing I should know as far as when I set up the letters?doublesided etc?
munky
08-21-2003, 02:05 PM
hey dodgy
cool boolean thingy I bet it's not for the mac though If you know of a mac version let me know it would come in very handy.


regards

paul
malikai666
08-21-2003, 02:10 PM
yeah I was just going to ask? Im on a mac can I do that and if so how?
Dodgy
08-21-2003, 03:00 PM
DOH! It's intel only at the moment. You could ask the writer if he'd get it ported to the mac though.

webmaster@shift.gr.jp

You might also try asking this guy to help as he has a mac and pc, but I dunno whether he will... His name is David Ikeda and is a programmer...

newbie3d@yahoo.com


This guy does a compilation service for porting pc plugins to mac for definite!
http://www.richardbrak.net/plugins/index.html#plugin