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Mike, you said this: so that you can crop them from the final image in XaraXtreme without touching the main image.
I cannot figure out how to crop those marks - since as the frame cycle advances the marks sometimes are actually behind the object and quite involved with it.
I have resorted to covering the marks with no line white rectangles in Xtreme.
Am I missing an obvious easier way???
Hi, Drifter, it really depends on the nature of your animation whether the sizing pixels get in the way or not. As an animation moves objects, the associated sizing pixels will move with them, and can often get in the way. Occasionally this can be really restrictive, and another way has to be found of acheiving the same image without the sizing pixels.
Xara3D has options for adjusting the sizes and positions of objects, but I often found one adjustment, especially size, would also have an effect on other aspects, so an apparently simple change to one object could result in a whole series of other adjustments having to be made afterwards to restore the original situation. I generally find this aspect more frustrating than having sizing pixels, but it can work well at times.
But this frustration may be due to my relative lack of experience in using X3D's internal methods, since I tend to use sizing pixels more or less by default.
In many ways I think this auto-sizing sizing is one of the most irritating aspects of Xara3D, and would love an option to disable this, so that imported shapes preserve their absolute size, or if they could be referenced to an invisible bounding box. But then, I do tend to use Xara3D in ways that its authors I'm sure never intended or expected, so my wants may well not be relevant to their designed target customer base :D .
Mike
Thanks, Mike. It's good to know that I am on the right track and will just have to work around certain things. It's great having you answer all my questions - Xara3D and Xtreme together have such potential and you have shown us what can be done way way beyond the simple text and/or border animations/3D effects. I appreciate all your help and hopefully others will learn from all these questions/answers and not have to repeat the questions.
New to this forum and XARA3D just joined a couple of days ago, been using XARA3D for a few weeks. Thought I would have a go at the spinning letters one from page two (Mindela and Vikes posts). Is something like this what you had in mind.
What is the best format and export settings out of XARA to use when posting these files in the forum here, I used an animated .gif but as you can see the quality is very poor.
Hi Croowe,
Welcome to the forum.
Animated .gif is good for posting animations.
Looking at your animation your background colour is a bit dark. If you try to match the colour or a close approximation of the background for the page they will be shown on the image will look better.
You did a very good job on the animation.
Ahhhhh yes your right, the background I had was a dark grey. I exported with transparency checked but its obvious the outer fringes of the animation pick up the background. Cheers and thank you.
Need help, i was trying to make 1 spin logo in xara3d. But how can import the image? I have my logo and wanna make it spin. Thanks
Hi Encoder17,
Welcome.
It depends on the logo. If it is basically round, you could use a round object in Xara3D and then use your logo as a texture. If the logo is basically square or rectangular you could again use an object in Xara3D and use the logo as a texture.
If you want individual objects for your logo they will need to be in a vector format (.wmf, .emf, .xar, or .web) to import into Xara3D. If you have a .gif or .jpg or other bitmapped image you would need to recreate the logo shapes in a vector program and export them in a format that can be imported into Xara3D
great thread, i've learned a lot so far :)
how do you add text below a spinning object, i've been able to spin the subaru, thanks to this thread but when i try to add text below, the colours drain from the image and go into the text :confused:
[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f1...Racing/22b.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/ETS-Racing/1.gif[/IMG]
[IMG]http://i47.photobucket.com/albums/f173/ETS-Racing/2.gif[/IMG]
thanks :)
Shift and arrow left will highlight just the text, then choose your texture for that part only - in this case uncheck the texture box.
Suunto,
Do you really want a 2.25 meg animation? A lot of software has a smaller file size than this.
Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
:D :D definitely not :eek: didn't realise til later that it was that size......................:D
Thanks drifter :)
Could someone spin this please :) I have looked and still dont know how to.. I have xtreme and xara3d yet i cannot make head nor tail of getting images into xara3d.
Thanks
http://images.bf2player.com/ranks/front/16.png
You draw a shape in Xtreme
You click Ctrl C
You switch to a new window in Xara3D
You click Ctrl V
The rest is up to you!
:)
When i select the flower (the picture i displayed) once drawing around it.. I just get a button in xara3d.. Is there a way i can get the silver texture etc on the front ?
Thanks
Check out this thread: http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=23208
Cheers Drifter.. Managed to get it sorted.. With minor problems but i will mess about with it..Quote:
Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-
Thanks alot..
Here is my finished article.
http://losers-server.com/upload/StokoE/avatarloser.gif
Nice one! Glad you got it sorted yourself :)
Yes, good job and congratulations. I personally would get rid of the gray shadow or glow around the shape...
http://spiceofindia.streamlinenettri...SpiceLogo2.jpg
Please Please Please
Could some body make this logo spin and 3d for me i will be fore ever greatful thank you so much in advance
Mike:)
This logo has so many characters.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeyf
It is not easy to make, hopefully, someone could do the better job.
[IMG]http://img132.imageshack.us/img132/6...elogo7bqt0.gif[/IMG]
Does "fore ever greatful" (my English teacher is spinning in torment in her shallow grave under the fourth form Chemistry lab) constitute a free dinner voucher from your Asian grub establishment?Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeyf
:rolleyes:
ren, good job
i am thinking that you might be under the assumption that all the letters must be connected and that's what you did
just so you know, that is not necessary
Quote:
Originally Posted by -=Drifter=-
Bob, thanks a lot for your advice. I have been using Xara 3D6 for only a couple of months, and still trying to figure out solutions and learn from the senior members.
It is fascinating to see people help each other here, I indeed enjoy it. Thank you again.
Please can sombody make the logo bigger and the background smaller thank you very much mike.
Mike,Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeyf
Is it big enough?
[IMG]http://img149.imageshack.us/img149/5...cylogo8ns5.gif[/IMG]
That is the perfect size, thank you so much is it possible to loose some of the background as it is too big Thank you mike.
Mike, The size of file has been reduced to 450 KB, which means 28 % of the original size was cut to meet your request. I hope it is OK this time.Quote:
Originally Posted by mikeyf
[IMG]http://img166.imageshack.us/img166/1382/spicy9mv1.gif[/IMG]
Ren2980,
I think mikeyf is refering to the physical size. Your gif is 563 pixels high. You could reduce it to about 200 pixels high without losing any of the image.
Thanks, Egg.Quote:
Originally Posted by Egg Bramhill
The image file should be Ok now.
[IMG]http://img223.imageshack.us/img223/720/spicy200bxa6.gif[/IMG]
wow that is amazing thank you ever so ever so much you must tell me how you did it i can not believe how amazing it is thank you mike
Here is a rough version. I can't figure out how to make the BP3 smaller in relation to the outer text.Quote:
Originally Posted by mindela
Quote:
Originally Posted by WolfMoonHP
http://www.talkgraphics.com/showthread.php?t=21893
See the movies, from egg with "using sizing pixels" in xara3d
Part 1 and 2
I wonder if anyone else gets the effect I get when I left click on that image it seems to be a link to a website or is that intentional.
What image Norman?
Each of the spinning images posted by Ren2980 are a link to http://imageshack.us which I believe is where the images are being stored. They are not attachments to the posts.
The spice of India spinning image. Egg.
Norman
Ok Bill thanks just read your post.
Norman
Parahandy, I apologize for the inconvenience.Quote:
Originally Posted by parahandy
The purpose of using links to free image share websites is to save the storage space of the forum.
Imageshack http://imageshack.us is one of the free service websites on internet. Anyone can upload an image file up to 1 MB free of charge.
Bill, thanks for your kind explanation.
I believe the owners/moderators/whatever of this forum would prefer we did NOT link our images to outside sources. The thought behind that being that if the pic is ever removed from that other source it would leave a placeholder here in the forum.
I could be wrong - the people in charge will have to post re. this.
I once too linked to a pic I had in Photobucket thinking it would save the forum some space. I am really curious just exactly how much space this forum has - it's gotta be huge!