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curved text

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:24 pm
by J. Baker
How would you put text on a path so it can be curved? I thought I had seen this somewhere but can't seem to find it now. I sure I'm over-looking something.

Posted: Wed Sep 20, 2006 11:57 pm
by Rai López
I think with one of the GREAT macton scripts :arrow: HERE!

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:00 am
by ulrik
I use Crashcore scripts to do it, the drawback is that you'll get an animated text at start, for this text (picture) I used 6 points to draw the curve and it will be translated into 6 keyframes in timeline.
I havn't used it a lot but when I saw your question I remembered how it was done, maybe you'll explore this script and find a better solution than this.
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:10 am
by J. Baker
Thanks Guys! ;)

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:15 am
by J. Baker
Hmm, keeps messing up for some reason. It's suppose to say, "curved text".
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Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 6:56 am
by ulrik
Is it possible to have a look at your AS file? Maybe I can be of some help

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:18 am
by J. Baker

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 7:48 am
by ulrik
I modified your moho file, I used "split curve" script to make a lot more keyframes...I added and added until it was at least a little better, so then you just copy the last keyframes (where the text looks ok) and paste them at frame 0 then it should work ( I noticed that the text was not placed exactly following the curve, it ended up a bit more to the right.
Anyway here's the mod moho file:
http://www.musikboden.se/animestudio/textcurve-mod.moho

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 9:18 am
by J. Baker
Thanks! ;)

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 12:33 pm
by hard as snails
can't this be done with bones like in the tutorial 2.6_3 ???

Posted: Thu Sep 21, 2006 1:21 pm
by ulrik
hard as snails:
can't this be done with bones like in the tutorial 2.6_3 ???

You're absolutely right, I've forgotten about that tutorial, thanks for reminding me!

the crashcore scripts work a little different and are very handy when making trails following a curved line