Metalic looking Text

[Nate Vander plas]

Are you thinking of a super-reflective shine, like chrome? Or just a little bit of light reflecting? For the second one you can make your text 3D and then mess with the material settings. You will have to add a spotlight to actually get the effect.
Unfortunately, if you want chrome you’re probably going to need a plugin like Zaxwerks.

[Derrick]

hhmmmm…..

You want it to maintain the original color, I’m just thinking out load here, but metal reflects. So maybe you want to create the effect of reflection.

This can be done numerous ways I suppose,

But try this, choose a still or video as to use as a reflection layer, put it on top of the layer and change the layer’s mode to SCREEN. lower the opacity of the layer to taste.

No reflection is usually distorted, so stretch the layer out of porportion to fake the distortion, or use a distort effect if you want, but usually stretching it is enough.

If there is to much detail in the reflection, add a levels effect and clip some of the detail.

animate the reflection around if needed.

– Derrick

[Mylenium]

Put whatever you want to be your shine/ glint/ glare on a separate layer top of your other layer and use blendmodes like add, multiply, screen and overlay. You may wish to add some nice image somewhere inbetween the stack and distort it to convey the illusion of something actually reflecting. The key to successs is to animate the position of your reflection elements whenever your main layer moves as reflections are merely dependent on the glancing angle.

Mylenium

[Pour Myl

[Peter Litwinowicz]

Our SHade/Shape can help you do that. it’s $89.95, and can “environment map” a 2d image onto your text. With the proper texture map you can make it look like metal.

More info here: https://www.revisionfx.com/products/shade_shape/
Galleries: https://www.revisionfx.com/products/shade_shape/gallery/ Go to the bottom to see how the plugin can be used on text.

Pete Litwinowicz
RE:Vision Effects, Inc.
https://www.revisionfx.com

[David Bogie]

Colorama.

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