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text on a ribbon
Muddling my way through a proof of concept project. Client has a logo with one of those ubiquitous ribbon banners at the bottom.
I can draw a spline, add an extrude nurb make it grow on the y-axis. I even figured out how to texture it and make it blow in the wind..way cool.
How do I put a line of text on it? The nearest I’ve come is knocking a hole in it using a text object and then grouping those under a boolean. This works OK, and I figured out how to dupe the ribbon and offset it on the z-axis to give the “hole” some color.
I’m kind of making this up as I go…Am I missing some obvious function to apply the text to the object? I’d like it to conform to the curve of the ribbon and be affected by the wind deformer and all that good stuff.
Any tips appreciated.
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2 Replies
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Try this:
Project your Text-spline on to your ribbon, maybe extrude the text,
make your text a child of your ribbon-spline,
drag your ribbon-spline and text-spline into a null,
drag the wind-deformer into that null as well (first place),
the wind-deformer should now effect ribbon and text together.
(Maybe you like to use a Plane-object for your ribbon and deform that in the wind)Cheers
Nolan -
Nolan – many thanks. The plane object makes much better sense than my extruded bezier. Looks better letting the wind handle the shaping of it.
I’m not having any luck with the project function. Operator error I’m sure. Just parenting the plane and the extruded text under the null and adding the wind deformer seems to work fine though.
thanks again!
Jason
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