Paint brush Bristles

[Shawn Smith]

Hi Randy I have a quick question if I don’t want my text to have that flat beveled look when I extrude it, so should I loft the splines to give it more of a tube or puffier look?

[Randy Johnson]

It really depends on the font and the look you want. The extrude nurbs have some nice clean beveling options in the caps tab (for beveling you almost always need to enable the “constrain” option) However IF your font allows it using a sweep nurbs with your text can give nice results. Make sure they are in the correct order. Should look like this:

Sweep Nurbs
-Shape (square, circle ect.)
-Text

This will however give you two sided letters so you will have to work on your spline a bit. There is a actually a tutorial about just this at the c4d cafe. I have not seen it but 3D Kiwi is very good and does not skip a step in his tutorials. The tutorial is free but you need to sign up for it… its well worth the time there are loads of excellent tutorials.
https://www.c4dcafe.com/ipb/index.php?/files/file/736-mospline-animated-text/

[Shawn Smith]

Thanks again Randy will try it later and send you what I’ve done.

[Shawn Smith]

Hi Randy sorry to be a bother but when I go to Hair > Edit Hair >convert from spline I can not see hair when I render. Any answers for this?

[Randy Johnson]

You need to apply the hair material.
Materials: File: Hair Material

/randy

[Shawn Smith]

Thanks Randy now with the reverse hair do I go into spline and reverse
it through edit spline in Structure tab

[Randy Johnson]

yea that should do it. select the poinats and reverse sequence.
/randy

[Shawn Smith]

I want to move the hair object around for placement but it’s locked in that one spot. I’ve tried everything I could think of. What am I doing wrong?

[Shawn Smith]

I want to move the hair object around for placement but it’s locked in that one spot any ideas?

[Randy Johnson]

Place the Hair object and the refrence object in a NULL and move that.

/randy