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Subject: How to create text who is created from smog

Kilroy opened this issue on Sep 03, 2004 · 6 posts
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Kilroy ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2004 at 5:05 AM · edited Sat, 16 May 2026 at 5:27 AM

Could help to find the way to create a text created from smog... well smog come first and then the smog become text... you see ?... I'm french talking... sorry

Tunesy ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2004 at 7:37 AM

Well. One way would be to create a fog and a text object. Keyframe scale changes, smog going big to small, text the other way. You could throw in modifiers on each object as well, if you like, although the modifier selection for the fog is considerably smaller. You also have a lot of parameters you can play with in the modeling room for the fog, not to mention transparency for the text. Carrara is very good with this kind of thing. Play around with it. Almost unlimited number of combinations you can use to get a nice result.

nomuse ( ) posted Fri, 03 September 2004 at 10:56 AM

I think I'd take a whack at turning text into fog then reversing the animation. I think animating a combination of distorts and a translucent material could turn your text into broken bits of smoke...I agree with Tunesy that at that point you would "sneak in" some proper 4d clouds and "sneak out" the remains of the text. Actually, I wonder if you could do something with 4D clouds and a transparency map, too. Another thing I wonder is, as far as I know the elements going into a boolean intersection can be changed freely up until you "freeze" it by exporting the result. So you might be able to boolean intersect your distorting text objects with the still-moving cloud...

Kilroy ( ) posted Mon, 06 September 2004 at 2:05 AM

Thank you friends for your help. I will try soon ! Nomuse, I tried with the bolean intersect but it seems it doesn't work... I didn't manage to have any object as intersect. I will try the reversing animation between the fog and text objects.

nomuse ( ) posted Mon, 06 September 2004 at 12:44 PM

I still hate to say this, but Cinema4D is easier for this sort of task -- in the C4D workspace you "drop" one modeller on top of another; you can literally make text from metaballs applied to particles applied to text objects. Not that you can't do it in Carrara! But I'd look at the strengths of Carrara and work within them.

Kilroy ( ) posted Tue, 07 September 2004 at 2:44 AM

Well, I don't have Cinema4D... and I don't know what is this software made for. Is there a demo for I try it ?

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