Complex shapes animation?

**Rik** · 28 September 2012, 11:15 AM

Is it possible to draw shapes in various colours, and then do animation in Xara 3D?

For example, is it possible to draw something like shown below and then animate?
Without having to copy and paste different parts and then adjusting line spacing and sizes etc - which gets rather messy!

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The 3 shapes are on a transparent background.

**gwpriester** · 28 September 2012, 12:38 PM

You can make a vector object any color you want. But when you paste the shape into X3D it will be black.

You need to select the shape in X3D and then add the color.

Create the vector shapes in Designer or Web Designer, copy to the clipboard, and paste in the X3D.

**Soquili** · 28 September 2012, 12:39 PM

Rik you cannot draw within Xara 3D Maker it is designed to work with text and/or an imported vector shape. Colors are not brought into the program but you can assign a color to a letter or shape by selecting it using the text cursor.

**Rik** · 28 September 2012, 01:07 PM

I know I can assign separate colours to vector shapes etc, but that means importing shapes individually.
Which then means that you have to start messing around with line spacing and sizes.

OK. I can see that what I want to do cannot be done in Xara 3D.

Is there a programme that allows importing of shapes or anything you draw, and then animate?

**Big Frank** · 28 September 2012, 05:17 PM

Any decent 3D rendering app should have an animation capability that would do what you need.

**iamtheblues** · 29 September 2012, 06:59 AM

I haven't tried it, but would using Dingbats work?
Bob.

**salaam** · 03 October 2012, 11:41 AM

Hi Rik,

To do this you will have to create 'sizing pixels' Egg did a tutorial video on how to achieve this.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_b1kf...feature=relmfu

**Rik** · 03 October 2012, 04:21 PM

Thanks for the link, salaam.
It was useful viewing!

**salaam** · 04 October 2012, 12:04 PM

If the pixels cause a problem by being too visible then there is another similar but slighltly more complicated method. Let me know.

**Rik** · 04 October 2012, 02:36 PM

Hi salaam.

If the shape to be animated was a regular shape and didn't need different colour, then there would not be a probnlem.

My question is more to do with having shapes, and even text, of different colours, that has transparent space in between.
Then in this case, I think in Xara 3D, it's either not possible or very difficult.

But, I would love to hear from you as to what your suggestion is?!