Jens animated avatar

[simsmj]

I hope Jens doesn't mind, but I was quite taken by his animated yin-yang avatar, so I set about trying to see if I could duplicate it in Xara3D. Jens's ying-yang symbols don't have the enclosing ring, but I had positioning problems when I tried that, so my version has rings, which were the easiest solution.

Mike

[simsmj]

I hope Jens doesn't mind, but I was quite taken by his animated yin-yang avatar, so I set about trying to see if I could duplicate it in Xara3D. Jens's ying-yang symbols don't have the enclosing ring, but I had positioning problems when I tried that, so my version has rings, which were the easiest solution.

Mike

[Zemo]

Did you have to custom make those shapes in a different program and then import into Xara 3D?

Ed

[fencepost]

Very nice, Mike!

[simsmj]

Zemo
Yes, I had to create the shapes in XaraX first, and import them into Xara3D.

Fencepost
Thanks, but the inspiration was Jens. While working out how to get the animation to work in two planes at once I realised I could actually do three rings at a time, so of course I just had to do it, didn't I? http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Mike

[simsmj]

Couldn't resist another one. http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/smile.gif

Mike

[gwpriester]

Mike

That's amazing!

Can you explain to us new users how you got the two separate shapes to rotate in different directions?

Gary

[simsmj]

Gary
I've been worrying how to explain it since I posted it. Basically it is a manual step animation with a frozen Rotate1 animation providing the 90 degree twist! http://www.talkgraphics.com/images/smilies/cool.gif

Mike

[Egg Bramhill]

Amazing yet again Mike.
I'm sure even more use could be made of the page break routines.
Egg

[SCync]

First, Mike let me thank you for the mini-tutorial. (I wasted half a Sunday trying to replicate your logo) Although I came up with a different method, it was a good bit of fun.

Second, it is the first time that I've played with this prog,(after me bother gave it to me for a gift) and it really is such a fun little prog with terrific results and capabilities. I've been an X user from day one but never thought to try Xara3D. Great stuff!