Different Front and Back Textures?

[Phusion558]

I am using Xara 3D Maker to promote a membership card that spins. I need to be able to show a graphic texture on the front and a different one on the back as it spins. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thank you!

[wizard509]

What you do is create and save it with the text and save it somewhere you can get to it. You need to do this for both the front and back. These will be your textures. Copy your first shape and paste in Xara 3D Maker. These need to be done with a vector program such as XP&GD10.

Now in Xara 3D Maker paste. this will give you a black shape which needs to be textured, so go to texture options and load one of the textures you created and align it to the shape if it isn't. Press enter and you will now see the textured shape. It may be too large to see the entire shape which mine usually is, so change the font size to something other than fit to width. I set this one to 2500pt.

Using the cursor (I-beam) hit enter and you will have a blank screen again with only the I-beam showing, so paste again and texture with side 2. Or with side 1 selected press enter any you will see the first image again which will need to be re-textured to show side 2

You may need to align the texture to the shape. Selecting each one with the I-beam and using the texture tool to align texture to shape.

now export your animation and you are finished.

ignore the attached gif because it is not working when I uploaded it here.

[Egg Bramhill]

Welcome Phusion558,

Unfortunately this isn't easy to Xara3DMaker. It can be done but it's a complicated workaround involving two seperate animations and then combining them to create one, then for extra use for use on a website creating a new gif using screen-grabbing software.

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Larry,

I missed your post - we must have been cross posting. It's years now since I used X3D in anger and I thought it was possible to change textures after a page break but when I tried it changed the texture on both pages. Have you got a xara3D file I could look at. Egg

[Egg Bramhill]

Ah, I know where I was going wrong. I was forgetting to Shift+Select the text shape to apply the second texture. Got it now.

Attached the X3D file.

Phusion 558 disregard my earlier post. It can all be done in X3D

[Phusion558]

Thank you for replying so quickly guys. I am still confused on the steps I need to take to accomplish this. I am using Xara 3D Maker 7.

[Egg Bramhill]

Phusion, do you have any other Xara software or vector software?

[Phusion558]

I have Adobe Illustrator CS4. I loaded your .x3d file and I can see both sides. I am just a little fuzzy on how to replace your images with mine.