custom Bevel

[Brian Jones]

I don’t think I understand, what does “a custom bevel profile across several scaled versions of the text object” mean? Do you have any examples or can you post what you’ve been working on?

[Alex Udell]

Hey Brian,

Take the letter O

I copy and paste to I have a total of 5 of them.

Then I offset them in Z from the original

1 and 4 stay the same

then I scale 2 and 4 up a bit

and 3 up a bit more

then I loft across all of them.

This gives me an extruded O that with a smooth bulging bevel.

(like a cheerio, but flat on front and back)

But now If i take that concept and try it across a whole word, I have to control every character and still really don’t get the look I like.

Does that makes sense?

Alex

[Adam Trachtenberg]

There is a way to do it if you have MoGraph. You would extrude a text spline with zero depth, which just gives you a single n-gon for each letter. Then make the extrude editable to form a polygon object. Then create a MoGraph extrude object and make it the child of the polygon object. Increase the number of steps for the extrue object to some largins numer (like 30 – 100). Then apply a step effector to the extrude object and adjust the effector’s spline (effector tab) to taste.

If you wanted to get fancy and still have the ability to use other effectors on the letters, you could put the polygon object in a fracture object, set the fracture to explode segments (object tab) and drop the fracture and extrude objects in a null. Then the extrude will work as above, but you’ll have the ability to apply other effectors to the fracture object to move/scale/rotate the letters.

[Alex Udell]

Hey Adam…

Don’t know of you remember me….I used to work with reseller PEI.
You did a demo day with us.

Thanks for the feedback….

I’ll give this a shot…

Alex