Envelope problem

[MarkMyWords]

I just tried applying an envelope, for the first time since buying Xtreme 4, and the object simply disappears, everytime I select the type of envelope. Can someone tell me what is going on? I'm trying to distort vector objects only.

[handrawn]

does it have live effects?

difficult for me to hazard a guess without an example....

[gwpriester]

Mary

Tell us more about the kind of vector objects and the number of objects.

I just applied various envelopes to a selection of objects with no problem.

Also, are you working on a new document or a document that has been open for a while?

I find that the more stuff I do in a document, usually a multi-page tutorial where I am doing all kinds of things, is when I have problems. Like a vector cocktail.

[MarkMyWords]

Mary?

Don't know what she's doing, but I was just trying to warp a group of three vector objects, it was a new doc.

No live effects, no feathering, nothing fancy at all, just a plain black rectangle with a couple of white lines on top. I grouped them and selected the envelope tool then tried various envelopes from the options bar - that's when the group just disappeared.

[handrawn]

must be that avatar

hummm not had this problem .....

[MarkMyWords]

Hmm...I think you may have been right Gary, in a way.

I just tried it again and it worked this time! The only difference I can think of is that before I was listening to the radio streaming online. could there have been some interference? Weird.

Problem seems to have gone for now, thanks lads.

[handrawn]

that's life hope it stays that way [the envelopes that is]

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Mark, I had the same thing happen the other day. You click on the mould tool and select the type of mould and Phhttt! the shape disappears. I messed about a bit and got it working in the end. Unfortunately I can remember exactly what I was doing (apart from constructing a 3D dice with the 3D tool and the fake sides with the mould tool) and I can't reproduce it either.

I'll pay more attention next time.

[chainfire]

I just discovered today that I'm having the disappearing problem with the envelope tool in XX5 as well. I was able to 'correct' it by selecting a colored line/fill and having the text re-appear, but every time I adjusted the envelope the text revanished and I was stuck reapplying the color. It's happening with everything I try to mould.

[Soquili]

Hi Chainfire,

Can you attach a .xar file that exhibits the problem?

I've been playing around trying to duplicate the problem but without success. No disappearing regardless how much I distort the text.

Folding it back on itself also doesn't make it disappear.