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Joerg Rusnak wrote:
>
> Hi Stefan,
>
> >What I'm trying to do is this:
> >Imagine(!) an object like an extruded plane, but with a text carved out
> >through it, so every letter makes a hole through the object.
> >Anyone got another idea of how this can be done?
>
> In spline-editor surround your text-spline with a box(-spline, sharp
> corners). Then join all splines together and make your (bevelled or
> whatever) points ! Now your text is extruded inversely !

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Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 13:30:52 -0600
From: Patrick Clarke <[e-mail]>
Organization: Lockheed Martin Astronautics
Subject:      Re: [IML] QUEST: Creating an object of a text outline

Well, you could go to the Spline editor make your text, do a flat (no
bevel) extrusion, save points, go to the Detail Editor, load the object,
add a Primitive Plane with subdivisions 1 and 1,( the less complex the
"dough" the easier to cut thru!).  Now position your text in the center
of the plane, scale the plane bigger than your text, and then pick both
and hit the Slice command under the Object menu.  Now you have booleaned
the object, and you can go thru all the parts, find the Plane with the
words cut out, extrude it and you know have a "hunk" of wood, metal,
etc. with the words cut out of it.

If it is just a 2D thing, i.e. black background with some sort of light
effect revealing the letters, just do your text Black and white in a
paint package, make a plane in Imagine, assign the text file you made as
a Filter map and viola', instant cookie cutter effect.

Hope this helps

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Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 07:32:25 -0500
From: Chuck Needham <[e-mail]>
Organization: 2Bit Graphics

YES, yes, the spline editr.

A quick tip....
  use another letter that is rectangular shapped, san-serif, especially
the letter 'I'. Enlarge it and using point edit, move the corner points
so the letter's shape encloses the other text. Works nice if you use a
rounded corner font for the box. Then ungroup all and join them.

note: if you are going to phong shade the new shape, you must do some
point editing on the front faces in the detail editor. There are a lot
if very thin triangles made by the spline editor when you add faces, and
phong will sometimes make wrinkles in the flat front-surface. Otherwise,
you will have to turn off smooth-shading, unless your text is heavily
bump-textured.

Expect increased render times if you smooth shade and texture the fonts.

I recently did a tumbling logo this way for a client.

Also, it is MUCH faster render if you can render the background first
and use it as a backdrop for the logo, because of all the little holes
the raytrace has to calculate.

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Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:03:02 -0400
From: [e-mail]

If its not a complex 3D object you're trying to slice, you might use a
bitmap of your text as a filter brushmap. I've used this to create some
hi-quality multi-plane CG stuff with DOF, looked great.

So Senor Bucior, not to be pushy but hows your Boolean .itx going? this will
soon be another way to accomplish the cookie-cut text.

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Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 20:32:57 +0100
From: Ghost <[e-mail]>

Yes, if I understood you right this might work, at least it should work if you
are running on an Amiga, I don't know about others really, but here it comes.

Start your 2D paint-program and type your text with black color och a white
background, the colors are importent. Now you cut it out as a brush, saves it.
In Imagine you have the option "Convert IFF/ILBM" under the "Object"-menu.
Choose it and pick the file with the brush. Now comes the tricky part:
Sometimes Imagine makes a misstake and the object gets wierd. If so, select no
faces and add them by your self.
You can also try to have 8 colors in the brushpalette, it can help sometimes.

I hope it works.
/Johan Thell

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Date:         Fri, 26 Sep 1997 16:13:07 -0400
From: [e-mail]

Actually a 2 color palette should work best, no surprises there... I used to
use this method often with Dpaint set to a high res, using the CGFonts at
enormous sizes, the reason for this is a small bitmap font with no
antialiasing (I dont think AA helps you when doing a convert-iff) will
generate alot of Jaggies, which means ALOT of point editing (although you
can use smooth-points nowadays). I stopped doing text this way when Impulse
introduced the postscript font support which worked excellent with the
Toasters included fonts.

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Date:         Sun, 28 Sep 1997 06:45:50 -0700
From: Bill Alexander <[e-mail]>

 Here's my 2 cents.
I did the same thing a while back on my a500 imagine 1.1.
I seperated the word into individual letters, then sliced them individualy.
alot easier than editing alot of points and stuff.
cya


-----Original Message-----
From: Salvatore Cagliari <[e-mail]>
To: [e-mail] <[e-mail]>
Date: Friday, September 26, 1997 2:20 PM
Subject: Re: [IML] QUEST: Creating an object of a text outline.. sort of..
:)

>Hi peoples
>
>Some time ago, i have trie to do the same thing, and i have found a
solution:
>
>- Make a Picture with the Text that you want.
>- save it in two version: one with the Text in red, and one with Text in
the
>color you wish.
>- Now for this that you want, you must invert the Picture. make the Text
>black, and all other colored red.
>- Add the first(red) Pic as bumb-map.
>- Add the second Pic as Color Brush at exactly the same position.
>
>After render this you have a plane with a colored text that is carved out.
>
>This is working wery good on my AMIGA. Try to make two Planes with two
>different Pictures added and make a morph of this. (I don't try this, but
it
>could be wery interesst.)
>
>I hope this help you.

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Date:         Mon, 29 Sep 1997 01:27:45 -0700
From: Drift Dennis <[e-mail]>

        One of the things about slice that I have noted, if it don't slice
after a few try's, then either it just ain't going to do it, OR, you save
everything, shut the program down, then start it up again. It seems almost
as if once the program see's that error, its blinded to the slice, give it a
short nap and it forgets it couldn't do it, and does it.