Does anyone know how to morph text from one word to another in Carrara. Anyone know? I have 3D Basics but I downloaded a demo of Carrara 3 to test it out there as well.

A little OT, but Xara3d is a free demo that will do alot of text morphing.

Is that a PC program? I have a mac. Is there a mac version available?

maybe you can find something here for mac,im not sure but look for yourself.:) http://www.bakhter.com/

xara is for pc,i didnt found something for mac on xaras site.im using a pc so i cant help you very much.

Morphing text looks to be a toughie. One set of letters is not likely to resemble another close enough to get verts or splines to agree. The number of letters is probably changing, too. Might be possible to work a trick with displacement mapping and morphing, but that sounds tricky. I can't recall seeing morphing text very often, tho. What I'm more familiar with is text that breaks up, flys around, and reforms. That would be easy in Carrara.

But can it reform into another word? If so then that could work. Could you tell me how?

Basically, animate the "explode" distort, or the dissolve, or one of those, on your text object. Run it backwards for the new text (aka animate from fully distorted to no distortion). I'm too sleepy right now to figure out how to hide the particles on the one while the other is fully formed. Another distort, probably. Or just scale it a lot. Or animate material to transparent.

If you literally want to morph text in C then the only way that I can think of is to do it by hand in the Spline Modeller. You need to adjust the cross-sections by hand, you can't import a new outline, so it's not very easy. Otherwise it needs to be faked in some way, as nomuse suggests. If there are common letters to your two words then you might simply move them around, introducing new letters by changing their size or visibility. But if you're planning doing a lot of this then a deicated program will be the best way.

That should read 'dedicated program'...

I hate to say this, but C4D (even the magazine-cover version) would give you more interesting options here. You could put a text object on a particle object on a metaball object and get all sorts of hinkey fluid-blob-stream things forming and reforming... I'm also toying with idea of animating an "Anything Grooves" displacement map, but I seem to remember it optimizes the mesh as it goes...

I see this will not be an easy task. :( BTW- Does anyone do webdesign work with Carrara? Looking for someone who may be interested.

Or...if this is the first time you are doing flying logos in some corp gig, why not use the old flash-and-switch gag? Run a really bright lense flare across the screen and when it's gone, presto chango, there's a different set of letters there. And variations thereof.

Yeah that may work. I'll give it a try.

If you had letters that were flying around, then some could just fly outside the camera's view. Poof! Their gone. While others fly-in in their place to form the new word. Or as a letter passes behind another, change it's visibility to off, and have the new letter waiting to take over it's trajectory and turn it's visibility to on at the next frame. A LOT can happen between frames that client/veiwers don't need to know about. ;) With the explode modifier, as one explodes to nothingsness, change it's visibility, and the new letter, (with the reversed modifier,) change it's visibility to on and un-explode into place. Experiment, have fun, and please post whatever you find works best. We'd love to see it!

Yup. And the one I thought of well after making my post above; that old trick where the logo rolls or swoops to become back-to-front. At the moment it is edge-on to the camera you swap models.