Could someone make this image 3D and spin please?!

[simsmj]

Hi, Drifter, it really depends on the nature of your animation whether the sizing pixels get in the way or not. As an animation moves objects, the associated sizing pixels will move with them, and can often get in the way. Occasionally this can be really restrictive, and another way has to be found of acheiving the same image without the sizing pixels.

Xara3D has options for adjusting the sizes and positions of objects, but I often found one adjustment, especially size, would also have an effect on other aspects, so an apparently simple change to one object could result in a whole series of other adjustments having to be made afterwards to restore the original situation. I generally find this aspect more frustrating than having sizing pixels, but it can work well at times.

But this frustration may be due to my relative lack of experience in using X3D's internal methods, since I tend to use sizing pixels more or less by default.

In many ways I think this auto-sizing sizing is one of the most irritating aspects of Xara3D, and would love an option to disable this, so that imported shapes preserve their absolute size, or if they could be referenced to an invisible bounding box. But then, I do tend to use Xara3D in ways that its authors I'm sure never intended or expected, so my wants may well not be relevant to their designed target customer base .

Mike

[-=Drifter=-]

Thanks, Mike. It's good to know that I am on the right track and will just have to work around certain things. It's great having you answer all my questions - Xara3D and Xtreme together have such potential and you have shown us what can be done way way beyond the simple text and/or border animations/3D effects. I appreciate all your help and hopefully others will learn from all these questions/answers and not have to repeat the questions.

[croowe]

New to this forum and XARA3D just joined a couple of days ago, been using XARA3D for a few weeks. Thought I would have a go at the spinning letters one from page two (Mindela and Vikes posts). Is something like this what you had in mind.
What is the best format and export settings out of XARA to use when posting these files in the forum here, I used an animated .gif but as you can see the quality is very poor.

[Soquili]

Hi Croowe,

Welcome to the forum.

Animated .gif is good for posting animations.

Looking at your animation your background colour is a bit dark. If you try to match the colour or a close approximation of the background for the page they will be shown on the image will look better.

You did a very good job on the animation.

[croowe]

Ahhhhh yes your right, the background I had was a dark grey. I exported with transparency checked but its obvious the outer fringes of the animation pick up the background. Cheers and thank you.