Help please. Make football logo spin

[Egg Bramhill]

Hi Chris,

I think what might be confusing you is Bills:

In Xara Xtreme you can draw the individual shapes without having to cut out.

And he's quite correct. However if you select all these individual shapes and copy paste them into Xara3D, what you don't see, but what happens is that all these individual shapes are added together.

So you can also do this in Xtreme first if you wish.

The best way is to copy all your shapes and then create a new layer, then Ctrl+Shift+V these shapes in the new layer where they'll be in exactly the same position as the originals. Have only the new layer editable, select all, Arrange Shapes / Combine Shapes / Add shapes. You now have one shape, which should be positioned exactly over the bitmap that you hand traced. Select this as well as the new shape and Arrange Shapes / Combine Shapes / Intersect shapes. This gives you a shape filled with your bitmap.

Arrange / Create bitmap copy. This gives you a texture that will fit exactly over your shape/s in Xara3D.


EDIT: That's excellent. You don't seem to have had any difficulty picking up hand tracing.

I attach a xar file to try to help you understand the texture issue as well as an ani I made 2-3 years back. This used no texture just the four different shapes in the xar file with different extrusions and colours.

THIS IS ALL IN AID OF WEDNESDAY NIGHT OF COURSE !