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- From: frotz@omni.voicenet.com (Steve Bara)
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- Subject: Re: Imagine 4.0 - Object colours? HELP!
- Date: 29 Jan 1996 07:38:46 GMT
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- Mark Worden (mworden@public.compusult.nf.ca) wrote:
-
- : This is where the problem arises: the Quick Render refuses to use the
- : colour I selected for the object and simply renders it in white. If I go
- : back and select a texture to add (i.e. Wood) then try the Quick Render
- : again, the Wood texture does indeed appear, but white still appears for
- : the object's colour (the brown colour defined as part of the wood grain
- : appears correctly). If I click on 'OK' and exit the Attributes requester
- : (keeping any changes I made), then go back into the Attributes requester,
- : the colour I had selected does show up when I click on the Colour
- : button. It's just that whenever I do a Quick Render (from the requester
- : or the menu), the whole word renders in the colour of white instead of
- : any colour I choose.
-
- This is because a group doesnt work this way. Now, i dont use PS fonts very
- often, but as i recall when you convert them, imagine creates a lone axis in
- the center and groups all the letters to this axis. If you pick that axis, the
- entire group may be picked, but you're only setting the attribute for the
- axis, not any of the actual letters. In order to treat all the letters as a
- single word, you should load the object into the detail editor, pick it, and
- select Object/Join under the menu (i think this is where the join command is),
- which will convert the grouped separate letters into a single object (though
- still composed of discrete smaller objects, imagine will see it all as a single
- object). At this point, you can set the attribute and it will affect the entire
- word. Otherwise, your only choice is to select each letter individually and set
- the attributes, OR pick the first one, set the attribute, then shift-select the
- remaining letters and APPLY the attribute to all of the letters. I guess that
- makes 3 separate approaches to the problem, but the main point to remember is
- that grouped objects all maintain separate attributes for each element of the
- group, and in order to set them, you need to pick the objects in the group
- individually somehow, or turn the entire group into one "object".
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