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  • flowing text along a path in 3rd dimensions?

    Posted by Sans.otto on May 8, 2007 at 4:51 pm

    hi guys I need your help with text,masks and paths!:D
    I have a long text in AE; I added it a mask and than I used this mask with a path for the text. It works well, there is the text that flowing along the path!
    Now I want to flowing the path(and text also) in thirddimensions like a fall.
    how can I do that?
    I tried to edit the point position path
    Is it possible?:D

    thanks all,

    Andrea

    Sans.otto replied 19 years ago 2 Members · 2 Replies
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  • Mike Clasby

    May 8, 2007 at 5:12 pm

    If you are taling Spiral, there are two tuts that do what you are asking, but neither is simple:

    https://www.creativecow.net/articles/langley_david/3d_ribbon_text/index.html

    https://www.creativecow.net/articles/chao_joe/textstream/index.html

    If you just want the text to fall, precomp the text layer and make it 3D, then animate it’s fall, but it will be flat-one piece of text.

    AE Text, with the text tool is 2D. I think text in AE CS3 is going to be 3D (if I remember correctly), so this will probably be a preset there… I’m hoping.

  • Sans.otto

    May 8, 2007 at 6:20 pm

    eheh I have to try AE cs3 as soon as possible!:)
    Thanks so much for these great tutorial! I getting done my text-river with expressions…I hope|:)

    If someone else know other tips about text in 3d space He’s welcomed!:)

    thanks all,

    Andrea

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