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From: 26-May-1995 0622 <leimberger@marbls.enet.dec.com>
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>Sure. Here ya go...
>My last project for Manny's Digital Fantasies and Light Speed video tapes
>had me building a fairly complex robot (ED-209-like). Rathe than using
>image maps, I picked a pretty font and stenciled the letters into the
>missile rack, ankle, and gun pods, as well as the lettering for the walls.
>It's pretty simple: you want the number "6" stenciled into the side of a
>box. Make a box in modeller (say, 1x1x1 meter). Go to another
>layer, then click on TEXT, load up any font you want (UnPact is pretty
>simple), and type "6". Scale it so it'll look nice (from the front) on
>the box.
>Got to Multiply/Extrude an make it 1 metter deep on the Z axis. Now you
>should have (in the backgound layer) a box, and a 6 in the FG layer. Move
>the 6 so that, from the top and side, the 1 meter extruded part intersects
>the front of the box. it'll look something like this:
_______
| |
| _ |
| | | | (Top View)
| | | |
|__|_|__| ---- BOX
| |
|_| ------- 6
>Now, hit ] to swap layers (put the box in the FG and the 6 in the BG).
>Select Tools (I think)/Solid Boolean. You'll get a requester with 4
>options. Select the 3rd one (stencil) and another set of options for a
>surface name pops up. Type in something like "6-Face" and hit return,
>then click OK.
>Now you get to wait (for a very short time...), and there should be a
>polygon in the shape of a 6 in the face of the box. The box has the
>surface name DEFAULT, while the 6 has the name 6-FACE. Pretty easy, huh?
>Quick note about cylinders: you'll want to use Wrap to Sphere of Bend or
>something to warp the text around the cylind so it looks good, but if the
>curve isn't too extreme (putting a 1 cm C= logo on a 1 m wide can), it'll
>look OK (it did for the number of my robot's ankle and the missile casing,
>which is cylindrical...)
Joe,
When I did my number. pardon the pun, I did not extrude it. I wanted
a painted on decal as opposed to an embossed look. I think the unextruded
object will follow the curve better. I tried a disk on the side of a
nosecone and it looked like you painted the emblem on. Followed the
shape of the cone faithfully.
bill
ps. Could you post a gif of your robot. My mech looks good from the top
but from the front looks like a block, He's back in shop at the moment.
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