Making a bitmap logo spin in Xara3D Part 2

[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

[Rock]

Stranger and stranger. It kept showing a vertical bar on the edge of one side in the animation, but now its gone.

[alpinedigital]

After looking into that 3D simsmj globe and figuring out the method, I realized we can use the alignment function to step these rotating logos up a bit. Notice there are several different extrde depths, because there are several shapes piled on top of each other with different settings

[simsmj]

That's a good looking 3d logo, that.

It's a matter of taste, really, but I think the extrude steps are a bit heavy-looking, so these days I mostly reduce them by typing Ctrl-A, then going to the Font Size field and setting something between 200% and 400%. This expands the x- and y-axis dimensions, but doesn't touch the z-axis (extrusion), so objects look thinner front to back. You then need larger extrude settings to achieve a given thickness, giving you much finer control.

Mike

[wizard509]

alpinedigital and simsmj those are both very fine.

[KAY99]

In Xara3D, you set the line spacing to 0, and every new object is imported on a new line, that is, after each object, you type a Carriage Return character