You have cracked it. A grand job I would pop the MERRY CHRISTMAS at the top so the particles rained down over the other bit. Saves wasting the effort of creating it. If you want them to go slower or waft about then ask. If you want them constant speed likewise, Blenders default is a B-Spline adjustable curve, a basis spline, basically a Bezier two dimensional two point curve; it is like a sine wave it starts off slow goes nearly constant and finishes slow as default. It doesn't need to, you can tilt the handles to adjust speed, it's a pain. They realised a few years ago that idiots like me would like a one click linear button and popped one in a very strange place, I'll find it if you want it. It's great having another beginner doing stuff it not only gives me ideas but makes me think. The spikes on the lettering are naughty mesh artifacts. Try removing doubles, try decimate and remove doubles. May not work if not forget it as it means going through the mesh hunting the bad quads, You have to separate the letters and drop new loops in make faces and generally arse about for half a day. Watch the font some are horrendous for throwing spikes when the curve is shoved. Applying bevel and depth to the mesh object takes a while to do so is only worth doing if one is getting paid or for fun and fun it isn't. Blender is using curves for it's fonts and curves are the very devil to play with. Even Blender says so. Glad you got a good video out of it.
Adrian: Thanks. Only one letter has spikes - under the Y. I tried several fonts and most had lots of spikes. As they were all free downloads I put it down to errors in the original construction. I think the bits left on top are particles which landed on the top of the 3D letters and didn't slide or bounce as I'd not enabled those instructions. It's good fun but very taxing on the remaining grey cell. As well as Blender I used three other programs to do different things like PIP and fancy textured lettering as I am familiar with they way they work. Added to that they were on different computers / operating systems. Have been having a preliminary play with Blender video editing. Might try that for a new year video.
Thank you for visiting. Hope you enjoyed the pictures. Any comment, or correction to any information or identification I get wrong, is most welcome. John
You have cracked it. A grand job
ReplyDeleteI would pop the MERRY CHRISTMAS at the top so the particles rained down over the other bit. Saves wasting the effort of creating it. If you want them to go slower or waft about then ask. If you want them constant speed likewise, Blenders default is a B-Spline adjustable curve, a basis spline, basically a Bezier two dimensional two point curve; it is like a sine wave it starts off slow goes nearly constant and finishes slow as default. It doesn't need to, you can tilt the handles to adjust speed, it's a pain. They realised a few years ago that idiots like me would like a one click linear button and popped one in a very strange place, I'll find it if you want it. It's great having another beginner doing stuff it not only gives me ideas but makes me think.
The spikes on the lettering are naughty mesh artifacts. Try removing doubles, try decimate and remove doubles. May not work if not forget it as it means going through the mesh hunting the bad quads, You have to separate the letters and drop new loops in make faces and generally arse about for half a day. Watch the font some are horrendous for throwing spikes when the curve is shoved. Applying bevel and depth to the mesh object takes a while to do so is only worth doing if one is getting paid or for fun and fun it isn't. Blender is using curves for it's fonts and curves are the very devil to play with. Even Blender says so.
Glad you got a good video out of it.
Adrian: Thanks. Only one letter has spikes - under the Y. I tried several fonts and most had lots of spikes. As they were all free downloads I put it down to errors in the original construction. I think the bits left on top are particles which landed on the top of the 3D letters and didn't slide or bounce as I'd not enabled those instructions.
ReplyDeleteIt's good fun but very taxing on the remaining grey cell. As well as Blender I used three other programs to do different things like PIP and fancy textured lettering as I am familiar with they way they work. Added to that they were on different computers / operating systems.
Have been having a preliminary play with Blender video editing. Might try that for a new year video.
Merry Christmas to you and Penny, John! Love your animated card.
ReplyDeletecheers,
Wilma
Seasons Greetings to you too.
ReplyDeleteHappy Christmas to you and Penny - love the card :)
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