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Trying to Create a 3D Word Cloud
I’m trying to simulate one of the 3D word clouds you see popping up around the net these days. Here’s an example (to the right in the header):
https://tarasnovak.com/blog/2009/01/12/wordle-beautiful-and-compact-word-cloud-generator/
What I’ve done so far is create all the words and then move them back and forth in z space so that I have something looking like a typical word cloud. What I can’t figure out is how to get the words to orbit around a central point as well as have the words always facing towards the camera as the cloud itself rotates. I want to animate certain words rotating to the front of the cloud, but have had no luck figuring this out.
Any help would be much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ray
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2 Replies
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To orbit from a center, create a Null layer and place it into the center of the word cloud. Then parent all the text layers to this Null. Rotate the NUll.
To always orient a layer towards the camera, use Layer>Transform>Auto Orient.
HTH
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I had a feeling it was something simple like that. Thanks very much for your help.
Ray
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