Text animation

[lampy]

I am looking to purchase a 3D animation program and will need to use it for text animation as well as modeling. I do not see much about text animation on the hash website and I can't seem to find a demo verison to test it out. Is AM limited as far as text is concerned?

[Rodney]

The images on this recently released example of the Font Wizard are pretty basic but A:M is quite powerful when it comes to text animation.

 

http://www.hash.com/2007web/fontwiz.htm

 

Anything you can do with a character you can do with text.

This includes texturing, manipulating, effects and more.

 

So to answer the question "Is AM limited as far as text is concerned?"

 

Not at all.

 

If there is any place where you might want to consider another application for Font Animation it would be in pre-defined text effects. A:M doesn't come with a lot of those. But its easy to create a library full of animation that you can drop onto any model (font or otherwise), fade in, fade out... grow, shrink.... change color... recieve images (i.e. decals).

There are some applications that do little more than text animation. As that is their specialty they do it quite well.

 

The vast array of things you can do with Text/Fonts and A:M are only limited by your imagination and the time you have to devote to the task.

[johnl3d]

bicycle.mov

 

 

This is an animation I did, all the characters are minipic fonts with only the bicycle modified to roll.

 

If you mean have the text fly arounnd etc this should be an extreme sample.

[Noganite]

How do you access the font wizard?! I haven't seen such a thing before. Using AM v13 (yeti)

[higginsdj]

In the model window, right click anywhere inside the model window, select plugins then font.

 

Cheers