“Stick” flat projected texture to Text Object (again…)

[Jeremy Allen]

I could be wrong, but I think that is what Flat projection is supposed to do..

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Corrado Carlevaro]

Well, I could be wrong too, but this is what Camera or Frontal projection should be supposed to do. I mean, there’s not a way to apply a simple gradient or whatever to a not-editable text and then animate that text?

[Jeremy Allen]

I’ve never had to use it, but I know there is a “stick texture” tag.. Maybe you should look into that.

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8core MacPro, 3.0 GHZ, 10GB RAM, OSX 10.5.6

C4D 11.5
AE CS3
FCP 6.0.1

[Corrado Carlevaro]

Thank you, but as far as I understand that tag is working with deformers and polygonal objects. For now I made the Text a polygonal object and solved this way.
Thanks
Corrado

[James Michaels]

I had exactly the same problem and it bugged the hell out of me for ages.

Some helpful person over at mograph suggested the following which works but is a little fiddly

Use a Connect Object with your mograph text object with the following hierarchy:

Fracture Object > Connect Object (with texture tags) > Extrude Object > Splines.

or

Fracture Object > Connect Object (with texture tags) > Extrude Object > Text

Some examples below:

https://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/tempfiles/mogradient.c4d.zip

https://homepage.mac.com/tcastudios/tempfiles/mogradient2.c4d.zip

[Corrado Carlevaro]

Thank you for your suggestion, I’ll try it as soon as I can. I was just wondering why one would need such workarounds for an apparently common and simple situation, a flat projected texture on a moving object!
Thanks
Corrado

[James Michaels]

No idea – something to do with each item not actually moving in space, rather being ‘effected’ by an effector….. Who knows…. not me!