3 Dimensional text

[salaam]

I don't know if this method has been tried before but I couldn't find anything on how to create 3D images using XX with light shading.

Later I will submit my method if one doesn't already exist.

The Xara on the right was made in X3D while everything else was made in XXPro3.0
The blue 'Pull' is a bit jagged but this could have been avoided by me by saving it as a high resolution bitmap first, before exporting it as 96dpi.

[remi]

I would recommend to create 3D text with a real 3D software package.

Remi

[salaam]

I don't think that I will have time to create a tutorial so briefly:
3D text with correct contour lighting can be modelled in XX quite simply by applying a very small bevel to 2 vector shapes and then blending them together. The lighting direction as well as angle can be adjusted before or after the blend is created. Due to the versatillity of the blend tool, XX is able to create images which can not be created on X3D 6.

[salaam]

I was so impressed with what can be done in XX rather than X3D I had to show you.

[Know1]

I just have to ask why.... why in the world would anyone want to use that weird 3d text effect?? Has that ever been used successfully?

[amoore]

Don't know about using it for text, but it worked very nicely for the star-shaped crayon holder (or whatever that is on the right ).