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Need a spinning crown
Can anyone tell me how to create a spinning crown? I have purchased Xara3D. I am using a trial version of XaraXdtreme. I would like to do it tomorrow.
I am going to be in a convention the rest of the week. I would like to have a gold crown with a diamond in the middle of the crown. My new web site is www.goldenjewel.org.
http://www.goldenjewel.org/logo2.gif
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Hi Doc,
For this specific design I think that it would be easier to make in X1 (xtreme etc). For a more X3D friendly design, it would still be difficult.
Anas
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Some thing like this .this is just a quick one ,more time on it will look better!!!!
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Yes, I can't believe you did that.
I thank you.
Dr.Del
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Hey Guys,
How is this for a 67 year old man?
Keep in mind that I am new to everything here.
The crown came from clipart.com.
However, it takes 67 seconds for it to load by dial-up.:)
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Dr.Del
Hey Guys,
How is this for a 67 year old man?
Keep in mind that I am new to everything here.
Just 'cos you're young and inexperienced doesn't mean you canna produce the goods ... as demonstrated.
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Dr.Del
Hey Guys,
How is this for a 67 year old man?
Keep in mind that I am new to everything here.
The crown came from clipart.com.
However, it takes 67 seconds for it to load by dial-up.:)
Dr Del that looks pretty good !I am new here to ,an i am loving the things you can do with Xara X and with the 3D and know better place to learn then here!
The people help out with any problems and are quick to answer!
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or is this the type of spinning crown you were looking for?????
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Is a crown of thorns appropriate do you think ?
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Here's half a crown spinning, I couldn't afford a whole one! :D
Mike
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Wow, what creativity we have here.
We need a dentist to fill that cavity.
Hey guys I will get better in time (if I live long
Enough). Are there anymore senior citizens out there?
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simsmj
Here's half a crown spinning, I couldn't afford a whole one! :D
Mike
Two shillings and sixpence still sounds more'n 25p doesn't it?
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Dr.Del
Wow, what creativity we have here.
We need a dentist to fill that cavity.
Hey guys I will get better in time (if I live long
Enough). Are there anymore senior citizens out there?
I think Parahandy is almost 100 years old ....
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Got another one. Doesn't fit any of my teeth, must have been a dodgy dentist!
Mike
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Just playing a bit more.
Mike
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Say, that exceeds my expectations.
May I use it when you are through with it?
:)
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Looking for fast help. How do import that into xara3d without losing anything?
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I wouldn't bother, here is the X3D file that generated the crown, with my compliments.
Mike
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You know, that last crown is a fantastic piece of work using X3D and I am surprised nobody took the trouble to congratulate Mike on it. Yeah, he's cleverer than the rest of us when it comes to X3D, but when you look at how he created it it's clear this guy doesn't get out much!!
Kudos, 3D guy! :D
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Dr.Del
Wow, what creativity we have here.
We need a dentist to fill that cavity.
Hey guys I will get better in time (if I live long
Enough). Are there anymore senior citizens out there?
Hello Dr. Del, welcome in :)
You can check on a user profile (click his nickname and choose the personal profile option) if you are interested in a particular member. The information provided by the member is volunteeringly and can be as accurate/true as he/she provides about himself/herself.
Regards,
Availor.
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Why, was there something wrong with the way I made it? :D
I get out just as often as I want to, heh,heh.
Mike
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Mike, I just tried to open it and got this:
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Drifter, try saving it to disc first, and then try opening it. I think the error message is from your own hard drive.
Mike
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Mike, I just tried to open it and got this:
If you used Firefox it would just have opened without the obligatory and immensely annoying Microsoft renaming ceremony :cool:
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Well, I just OPENED (without saving first) the file that Egg posted in another thread and all went well. ?????
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That's the worst problem with Windows... its bugs are random! :D
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Well, thanks for the tip. Saving it to desktop then opening it worked - no idea why though.
That crown file is amazing! All those little parts making up the whole - and all in place. Did you just get it that way by trial and error or is there some mathematical genius behind all of this?
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Drifter, the crown is a lot less complex than at first sight. It is simply a handful of thin rings arranged in a pile. The lower part is a complete ring, the middle parts are clones of the complete ring, with symmetrical sections removed, and the gems are pixel-sized points set on the rim of the original ring. Each ring is raised or lowered using ripple animation along the z-axis.
You can see this most easily by loading up the Crown.x3d file and with no cursor enabled, just set the extrusion to 1, and the bevels to none.
Mike
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simsmj
Got another one. Doesn't fit any of my teeth, must have been a dodgy dentist!
Mike
Hey Mike - I tried to save this one -Spinning Crown- to see how you guys did... couldn't... ??? What kind of file is it? :confused:
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Hwy101, it is a Xara3D file, x3d extension. You will need at least Xara3D version 5 to open it correctly.
Mike
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Mike, Have 3D6 and none of the files, this thread, show when I search to Open - Is the File a 'Different' one then posted to these messages or 'In' another thread? Or one that I have to ReName?
Stumped - Tom :confused:
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Hwy101, it is a Xara3D file, x3d extension. You will need at least Xara3D version 5 to open it correctly.
Mike
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Tom, I wonder if it is a similar problem to the one that Drifter experienced. When you click on the link for the file in your browser, does it save the file somewhere, or ask you for an application to open it with? What browser are you using? Try saving it to a particular location and check the name it ends up with. There is a space in the filename that I posted, and that space can be translated to %20.
Mike
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Okay Mike - I got the file "Crown 1.X3D" that You uploaded -when Opened in 3d - Top Alternately Point 'Up' then 'Down' - Was that what was Intended?
Let me go back (& touch on a few other Crowns 8-)):
Crown anim -saw this one turning back & forth
half crown anim - Very Good / Play on Words Excellent! ;-^)
but, the original thing I was trying to Animate/figure how to Open with 3D was the Post (turns out 2 images:eek:):
crown rings
Ring excerpt
I couldn't see or figure How to Animate to 'see' a Spinning Crown -Neophyle
:eek: Clear as 'Mud' now... 8-)
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simsmj
I wouldn't bother, here is the X3D file that generated the crown, with my compliments.
Mike
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OK, I see where you are coming from, now.
The spinning crown animation is a synthesis between Xara3D and XaraXtreme. The original shapes (rings and ring segments, etc) were made in XaraXtreme, and exported to Xara3D where they were extruded, positioned, and lit.
The positioning of the rings above each other in X3D is unnatural in the sense that X3D doesn't normally allow this, so I made use of one of X3D's inbuilt animation options (Ripple), and then froze it on frame 2 in mid-ripple. This gives me a static view of the completed crown.
If I want it to spin, I can't then apply a different animation, eg Rotate, to the crown within X3D without losing the Ripple animation, so instead, I merely change the viewpoint of the crown in regular steps, and export static images to empty animation frames in XaraXtreme, building up the animation manually, and finally export the animated gif from XaraXtreme.
I hope this helps. It probably sounds quite complicated, but the part most people seem to have trouble with is the frozen animation bit. I realised a while ago while trying to emulate an animation I had seen elsewhere that X3D's inbuilt animations move objects around in ways that its normal positioning methods can't acheive, and so once an animation moves things to where you want them, you can just pause the animation to freeze the objects in their animated positions. After that it is just a case of picking which frames you want to export, and if you change viewpoint in the meantime, that can add further to an animation.
Mike
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Wow! Good observin' and figurin', Mike!!!!!
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Wow! Good observin' and figurin', Mike!!!!!
I'll 2nd that Mike -Now to try and step thru to understand better - Thanks
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Hi everyone, is this cown supposed to spin? What I have is a ripple effect.
I had it spinning, but the whole crown is not visible. Is there any way to correct this so that the whole crown is visible while it is spinning?
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Dr.Del
Hi everyone, is this cown supposed to spin? What I have is a ripple effect.
I had it spinning, but the whole crown is not visible. Is there any way to correct this so that the whole crown is visible while it is spinning?
Hi Dr. Del, Is it a kind of spinning you are after?
I could not make a crown as good as Mike, so I am using Mike's image file. Mike I should ask your permission in advance. Hopefully, you do not mind.
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ren2980
Hi Dr. Del, Is it a kind of spinning you are after?
I could not make a crown as good as Mike, so I am using Mike's image file. Mike I should ask your permission in advance. Hopefully, you do not mind.
Thanks, but I have already succeeded with that much of the crown.
Your crown also is only part of the crown. We must be doing something wrong.
Dr.Del