Hi, Emma, do you mean the image? That is a representation of an astrolabe I did in Xara3d and XaraXtreme some years ago.
If that isn't what you are after, then I'm still not sure what mean.
Mike
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Hi, Emma, do you mean the image? That is a representation of an astrolabe I did in Xara3d and XaraXtreme some years ago.
If that isn't what you are after, then I'm still not sure what mean.
Mike
hi mike sorry my mistake ur sample is square.and there is a different 1 ive seen but not sure if its done by 1 or 2 softwares Attachment 87567 emma
OK, I see what you mean. That is a rounded square. I don't think Wingdings has one. You would get that from another application. Did you not say you had XaraXtreme? It has a tool called Quickshapes that lets you create shapes with any number of sides. You can select how many sides the shape has and whether it is stellated (star-shaped), and whether the corners are rounded or not. The great thing with XaraXtreme is that you can select any shape you made in it, and copy it to the clipboard with Ctrl-C, and then in Xara3D, paste it in as a shape with Ctrl-V.
To get the shape in that image, use 4 sides, and click the rounded corner button. Then just drag the mouse across the screen and see the shape being created. If you place the mouse pointer onto any of the control points near the corners you candrag the point nearer or further from the corner to change the radius of the curve.
Once you are happy with it, select the square and hit Ctrl-C as I described earlier, and paste it into Xara3d.
Mike
hi ive done this but mine dont i dont know how to seperate them to the 1 i shown u Attachment 87577 emma
The way that the Amore Elite image was put together was to create two separate animations, one using Xara3D's Board design with the Amore Elite text on an oval board, and another one with a rounded square board with the other text applied to it. The frames of the animations were then superimposed in another application, possibly XaraXtreme or one of its variants. I can see that because one animation, the oval board one, is always completely behind the square board one.
You can't do this within Xara3D, unless you use the Ripple animation, but then you can't use the Rotate animation to spin them, because Xara3d can only invoke one animation type in any one file. So while you have got all the right shapes (though your square doesn't have the round corners), you will need to do the oval board animation first and export as an animated gif. Then create the other board animation, and make sure it has the same number of frames, and has a transparent background, because otherwise it will obscure the oval animation belhind it.
After that, you are into XaraXtreme territory, where you need to merge the two separate animated gifs. I'd need to experiment a bit myself with that though I know it could be done but I'd not necessarily know the easiest or most efficient way to do it. But someone on the relevant forum will probably help with that when you get to that stage.
So if you want to proceed, create the two animations first, same size, same number of frames, one with a background if you want and one without.
And then we will see what we can do next.
Mike
PS graphics is fun, isn't it?
ok thx u and this dont sound to easy. emma
oh and the text on the rounded square board i wasnt going to write on that :) emma
Its true you may perhaps be trying to run before you can walk, but there is nothing to stop you at least trying the first couple of steps, like creating a spinning board with text on it. If you go so far and stop, that's fine, and you can always pick it up again later if you want.
The more you try things out the more comfortable you get with what you can do, and you are learning all the time.
And then the next steps will look much more straightforward.
The main thing is, just enjoy doing what you can do, and you will enjoy doing more and adding more to your skills.
Mike
Attachment 87582 im still trying but i can only get the board with text on it to spin half way and the text isnt to clear but im doing has text and not button is that right ? emma
It's close enough, just reduce the line size to make the board and the text overlap more, and then select the text alone, and give it a thicker extrusion, so that it sits proud of the face of the board. With the Swing animation, you can change the extent of the swing by changing the angle. If you set 90 degrees, Swing moves from 0 to 90 in one direction, then all the way back to 0 and then to 90 in the other direction and back to 0 again. So the object will actually swing twice that angle in total.
Mike
Attachment 87583 got that bit done :) emma
That's fine, you've adjusted the extrusion of the text. Did you change the animation to Rotate?.
If you adjust the line size to zero, both the text and the oval should be centred on each other.
Mike
hi the animation is moving in swing 1 and sorry what u mean size to zero ? emma
In the Swing 1 dialogue, is the Angle section ticked? In mine, if that isn't ticked, the swing only works in one direction, it doesn't swing back, and it swings a full 180 degrees.
I didn't know it would do that. Anyway, to centre the text and oval, the spacing between lines has to be reduced to 0. That setting is on the top menu bar, second from the right. It is normally at 80 by default. As I said, Xara3d is a text-based application, and originally you could only type text into it. The only major change from the early versions was the ability to import non-text shapes created in other applications, as long as they were vector-based in .wmf or .xar format.
Xara3d still lays out all its objects as if they were characters on a page, and so there are options to change the spacing between characters on the same line, (Tracking), and between characters on adjacent lines, (Line Size). You can also shrink or expand characters relative to each other, and select different fonts for them. You can separate two adjacent characters by typing a space between them. You can also have multiple pages, and have Xara3d step between them in sequence. This is what the Step animation really is, and unlike the other animations, you can select an animation like Rotate for the file, and still automaticlly Step between pages.
So you can create several different animations, (all Rotate1, say), each on their own page in the same file, and Xara3d will run the animation through one cycle on page 1, then Step to page 2 and run the animation on that for one cycle, and so on.
hi i really cant work out how to get the square to move in front like the Amore Elite image. emma
That is because the Amore Elite was built up with two separate animations then one was superimposed over the other. The superimposing was done outside of Xara3D, possibly in XaraXtreme or one of its earlier or later versions.
If you try to combine everything within Xara3d, all objects will sit in the same plane, all at the origin or zero point of the z-axis, the front-to-back direction. The only way to separate such objects along this axis is with the Ripple animation, operating along the z-axis. But as soon as you choose Ripple, you unchoose Rotate. This is why I know the Amore Elite image had to have been merged outside of Xara3d.
Mike
i'll try again tomorrow cos ive been trying all day :( emma
Very good 3D photo animated
sumithranom
hi i still cant work it out :(
OK, Emma, which bit is giving you problems? How far can you get?
Mike
hi i cant get it past 1 first bit so both objects move all way round. emma
ive even tried doing this 1 Attachment 87885 but cant work out what other software being used to do it. emma
Well, as I said earlier, it could be done in XaraXtreme or XaraWeb Designer, but I don't know if they were specifically what was used. The basic idea is that two completely separate Xara3d-generated animated gifs were placed on top of each other in a gif frame editor of some sort. If you had the animated gifs, they could be merged frame by frame in XaraXtreme or Xara Web Designer, one being in the background of the other, though it would take a bit of work.
Why not tackle it one step at a time, and not worry too much about the merging for the moment, and create your two animated gifs, starting with one until you are happy with it, then doing the other?
And again as I said earlier, one should have a background, and the other, the "front" one should have a transparent background. Both should be the same size preferably, and have the same number of frames. Because they are separate animations, the basic animation types (ie, Rotate or Swing) used in one needn't be the same in the other.
Mike
hi ive tried using xaraxtreme but i cant do it on there but i am only learning still. on the site i got them from there is loads on there alot of people use it but wont tell u how it was made why i dont know :confused: emma
Well, I can talk you through the XaraXtreme process when you have a couple of animated gifs to use, and we can use them as examples in a tutorial. Or if you would prefer, I can create a couple of simple examples of my own and create a tutorial that way.
Mike
hi i ended up buying aurora 3d text & logo and ive made this Attachment 87896 emma
That looks good Emma. Good animation.
Well done, Emma, I'm glad you got what you wanted.
Does Aurora 3d do all that in one package?
Mike
hi mike thx u and yes it was all done on aurora 3d text & logo. emma