• Maxon Cinema 4D

  question regarding some 3D text effect (sweep nurbs, splines, spline wrap)

  Posted by Kev Rama on July 19, 2009 at 12:25 pm

  Hello,

  I have a question regarding some 3D text effect I am trying to recreate. Please take a look at this 3d type.
  I have attempted to recreate this effect in c4d.
  What I have done is added an arc spline and some text to a sweep nurbs. But I don’t feel I have the proper control to manipulate the text like in the aforementioned 3d type artpiece.

  What I also tried was add a splinewrap to some text. And then add the arc spline in the splinewrap. This results in the text following the arc but not in the way I want.

  What do you think? How would you do this?

  Should I draw my own splines? Sofar I have tried to draw some splines freehand but when I added the sweep nurbs everything became to distorted. And as far as the arc spline go’s; I can only manipulate it to a very limited degree.

  Thank you.

  Adam Trachtenberg replied 17 years, 1 month ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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  Randy Johnson

  July 20, 2009 at 11:33 am

  Sweep nurbs are the answer to doing this. What do you mean by distortion? Can you post a pic?
  /Randy
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  Adam Trachtenberg

  July 21, 2009 at 3:19 pm

  The arc spline isn’t going to give you enough flexibility to create this effect. You’ll need to draw a path spline by hand.

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