Making a bitmap logo spin in Xara3D Part 1

[Hwy101]

... Mike

'No Overtaking' - I always wondered what this symbol was - Since we <g> drive on the 'Right' side (;-^)) I thought it was No Double Parking (LOL)

[yergun_002]

thankyous

[kadre]

thanks to all for making them, going to be very handy

[rebel]

This is intended to be the first of a series of guides to answer the most common questions that visitors to the forum ask, including the frequent How do I make my logo spin?

The guide will assume little or no familiarity with Xara3D, and will start with the simplest possible method, and later ones will demonstrate somewhat more sophisticated methods.

Mike

its off the subject but not sure where 2 look im havin trouble with sizin xported gifs,they look huge b4 i export them but afterwards they r very tiny if ny1 can help my yahoo is rebelbulldog75

[steve.ledger]

Hi Rebel,

Welcome to TG forums.

I answered your other post on the same subject here:
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthre...632#post289632

Also please note, we do not offer 1-to-1 support directly to your email address.
Talkgraphics is about sharing help and support.

[D.Realms]

Thanks for the guide simsmj. I was hoping I'd be able to use a png or gif with transparency images as my shape. So how can I make my own shapes to use in Xara 3D6? What did you use to make your current avatar?

[simsmj]

Hello, D.Realms, welcome to the forum.

The software we tend to use for vectors in this site is one of the Xara applications, the current flagship of the fleet being Xara Designer Pro. Xara3D is a standalone app which takes vector shapes and extrudes them, giving a solid 3-dimensional look. Such solid objects can be given a paint job by importing a texture in the form of a bitmap of some type, like bmp, png, jpeg, etc. The solid objects can be animated, but the shapes making them up cannot be edited in Xara3D itself, except for extrusion depth and type and size of bevels.
Xara3D is unable to use transparency in these textures, but in exporting an image or animation, it can make the background transparent, if the target format itself permits it.

The avatar you refer to, (the spinning hollow earth) is quite a complex construction, definitely not for the faint-hearted! There is a tutorial describing it here.

Mike

[wizard509]

simsmj I have always been fascinated with your spinning globe. I think that is just awesome.

[senmun]

thanks to all for making them, going to be very handy

[arekoner]

if i gave one of you guys an image could you make it spin and maybe clean it up a bit... im working on my company website and really want my logo to spin i think it would look really cool if it could spin in 3d without all the yellow around the actual logo im not sure if you can do this... but from some of the pretty awesome work i saw on here im sure its possible.... i would even be willing to pay