True 3D sphere in CS6?

[Nevin Styre]

Yeah I’m pretty sure CS6’s native 3d is limited to extruded flat planes with bevel options.

[Todd Kopriva]

You can make a sphere by extruding a period or circle with a curved bevel. Try it.

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[Steve Brame]

With a max bevel setting of “10” it doesn’t work very well. All we get is a cylinder with rounded edges.

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[Todd Kopriva]

The maximum bevel depth setting is not 10. That’s just the default maximum for the slider. You can type in a larger number.

Also, as with almost all slider controls, you can change the maximum by right-clicking/Control-clicking the value and choosing Edit Value.

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[Dustin Parsons]

[Todd Kopriva] “The maximum bevel depth setting is not 10. That’s just the default maximum for the slider. You can type in a larger number. “

The bevel depth appears to max out at 100 though and for me that doesn’t round the corners enough for a sphere.

This is what I get with the Bevel depth set to 100:

Any thoughts?

[Maarten Francq]

Works fine with:

A textlayer to start with, just the .-sign, 25 pixels, white

Bevel style: convex
Bevel depth: 100
Hole bevel depth: 0
Extrusion depth: 10

[Dustin Parsons]

Interesting. I got it to work using your method but I realized that I had to keep the text size small, once it got past 100px that’s when the sphere started loosing it’s shape and becoming more pill like (see this image).

[Maarten Francq]

Hi,

I made an entire animation using this idea. Some frames out of it can be seen on https://www.lowstreetmedia.be/raytrace-3d-inside-after-effects-based-on-fonts/

Kind regards,

Maarten

[Davey Jones]

Trying to apply your technique, but I am not getting the same geometry options under the text layer that you show in your graphic. I made the period a 3d layer, but didn’t help. Any ideas. I am using AE CS6. Thanks.

[Maarten Francq]

Davey,

Make sure the current renderer is set to 3D Raytrace.

Steps from the helpfile:

1.Create a new composition.
2.Open the Composition Settings dialog box for the composition.
3.Click the Advanced tab, then set the Rendering Plug-in (now called Renderer) to Ray-traced 3D.

To turn an existing composition into a Ray-traced 3D composition, omit the first step.

Your composition is now a Ray-traced 3D composition that allows for extruded text and shapes.

Hope this solves your issue.

kind regards,

Maarten