Making a bitmap logo spin in Xara3D Part 2

[mdhawthorne]

Wow! I am a new member and found exactly what I was looking for when I did my first scroll through this section. You have two soinning orbs with a different message on eash side. How do you get that effect? I can easliy get one message on one side of an orb but I did not know there was a way to further engance that. Thanks for any and all info.

[ss-kalm]

You use a hard return in the text - The diamond in the text box. You can have as many pages as you want ... You can also change the colours by highlighting the relevant text and editing the colour

[Rock]

I created these before reading the tutorial. It would have been helpful, but I tend to be much more interested in exploring than RTFM.

How do you put a different image on each side?



I'll be happy to try to answer any questions about my process if possible.

[iamtheblues]

Good designs Rock. Especially the blue Kowulz Design. The others need some work on repositioning the lighting to avoid the high light/dark contrasts as the logos spin.
Saludos,
Bob.

[Rock]

Thanks, Bob. I make myself braindead overtweaking stuff if I am not careful. As I said, a lot of the joy of Xara Designer and Xara 3D for me is exploration and experimentation; figuring out how to make the software do what I want. The 420 was especially fun since I made the frame and text raised away from the blue and red background.

[Rock]

Mike,

I seem to be missing something here. A half hour or so of fiddling and I can't get it right. Please take a look and see if you can tell me what I am doing wrong. Thanks.

spin sides bad.X3D

[simsmj]

That x3d file looks fine to me, Rock, I don't see that there is anything wrong with it. I would disable the spinning lights, and turn off the shadow, but those are more preferences than anything else. The image you posted however seems to contains a jpeg rather than a gif, so you may have chosen to Export instead of Export Animation?

Lighting these things is an art in itself, I tend to have two lights above the midplane, and one below, and have bevels like rounded or 30/45/60 degree, then adjust the lights to catch the bevelled edges as the coin spins.

Mike

[simsmj]

Hello, Rock,
the simplest answer for your questions is Pages. If you hit Alt-T, the text dialogue opens up, showing your test/shapes. Position the cursor and click on the diamond button. This will place a page break at the cursor, giving you a second page to your file. Back in the main screen, the PageUp/PageDown keys will move you between pages.

Put your coin/medal into the second page, with a different face. When you run your spinning animation, Xara3d will spin the image once on the first page, then switch to the second page and spin the image on that. The switchover takes place while the shapes are edge on to the screen. Your coin/medal can have as many sides as you define pages for.

Mike