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COW Tutorials: After Effects Creating 3D Ribbon Text
&page=https://www.creativecow.net/articles/langley_david/3d_ribbon_text/index.html”>Creating 3D Ribbon Text In this tutorial Dave Langley demonstrates how to create a 3D ribbon of text that flows smoothly around curves up and down slopes moving around and interacting with other elements using only core tools in After Effects.
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Kathlyn Lindeboom
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The movie blows me away, I will tear into the aep forthwith.
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Looks pretty good.
My Problem is, I have the german version of AE7 and some expressions need to be translated.
Slider need to be replaced by Schieberegler.
But I don’t know how to translate the following:
comp(“Guide_A”).layer(“Controls”).effect(“Color”)(“Color”)Error Message:
After Effects Warnung: Klasse “Effects” hat keine Eigenschaft oder Methode mit dem Namen ‘Color’
Expression deaktiviertFehler in Zeile 1.
Komp.: ‘Text_A’
Ebene: 2 (‘Rumfliegen’)
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yikesmike – I’m glad you like it. I will be monitoring this thread so if there are any questions just let me know.
BausDTown – Unfortunately, I can’t help translate. Hopefully someone will be able to help; possibly Mylenium? If there is anything else I can help with let me know.
Thanks
Dave
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Amazing effect, but since it’s a very complex comp with expressions (I think most After Effects users are designers, not programmers) wouldn’t it be better explained with a video turorial?
Forgive me if it sounds dumb, but I really learn much better with videos…
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[Franktatu] “Amazing effect, but since it’s a very complex comp with expressions (I think most After Effects users are designers, not programmers) wouldn’t it be better explained with a video turorial?”
Since it does involve expressions, it needs text, explaining expressions via a video is okay but in the end, you are going to be right back to good ol’ text and so…
Best regards,
Ron Lindeboom
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In the part “Duplicating Comps”
when I use the first expression
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Oh sorry, I just got it. I just gave my text layer a different name %-/
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Cool effect
i had a little hard time to follow it and understnad what im copying
is there a way to create this effect with some kind of a plugin and not using exprsions
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this was a really cool tutorial even though it took me most of the night to get through it. I downloaded a similar project I found at the adobe ae forum called “create a path in 3d” that you can probably find by searching. it uses index in an expression to offset the letters on the path and lookAt to keep them oriented to the path so it is a slightly different approach. unfortunately I didn’t note the location of the thread. Im wiping the sleepers out of my eyes now and heading off to work. thanks for the great tutorial but you get no thanks for keeping me up almost all night
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I’m not aware of any plugins that can do this. Thats not to say they don’t exist, I’ve just not heard of any. I tried to be both concise yet maintain clarity, that doesn’t always work for evereyone who might read a tutorial especially one with expressions. I would be happy to try and give more clarity to particular conceerns if you would like to post them.
Dave
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