? text effects

[boeing747fp]

Hey,
Does anyone out there know what I could do in 3dstudio max 5 to make my text effect look like the one here.

http://www.wowhits.com/mainsite/down...tras/1-640.jpg

Boeing747FP

[boeing747fp]

Hey,
Does anyone out there know what I could do in 3dstudio max 5 to make my text effect look like the one here.

http://www.wowhits.com/mainsite/down...tras/1-640.jpg

Boeing747FP

[jens g.r. benthien]

ooooops, I thought 3DS can do **anything**??? This scene setup is extremely simple. Just a few letters extrudes and placed into a scene. However, I think your sample was developed with a 2D app...

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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[boeing747fp]

well, how about.... how did they make the outline of the text clear like that?
i have Fireworks MX. would that do it?

Boeing747FP

[boeing747fp]

I do graphics for Bangor Baptist Church in Bangor, ME. Here's the sermon title slide I just made and want to enhance it more like the one i was talking about. [img]null[/img]

Boeing747FP

[Mark (theKeeper)]

mmm... haven't had time to try this but how's about you select that type, expand the selection 10 pixels, add a new layer below that type, fill the selection with the Clouds filter, then run the "Chrome" filter (FILTER>Sketch>Chrome) on it and set the Blend Mode to Luminosity.

Try other blend modes though. A lot of room to experiment with this kind of thing.

[boeing747fp]

in Fireworks? i dont see any chrome anything in fireworks

Boeing747FP

[jens g.r. benthien]

we are not talking about pixel programs here, we are talking about 2D vector apps like XARA X. An alternative is XARA 3D.

Or a 3D CAD software like 3DS or Cinema 4D, or any other app.

In 3 D you simply extrude the characters with a bevel, and expand the part in the back a bit. Set the lighting so that the bevels light up and give them a shiny surface.

top: XARA X
bottom: XARA 3D

sorry, don't have the time to fuzz around with 3D apps right now.

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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If you don't know how to dream you'll never be a designer.
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[jens g.r. benthien]

here is another one with XARA 3D

jens g.r. benthien
designer
http://www.sacalobra.de

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If you don't know how to dream you'll never be a designer.
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[Mark (theKeeper)]

Oh... crap sorry man... i didn't notice the reference to FW. I was talking Photoshopeze.