Return-Path: Received: from mo-p00-ob.rzone.de ([81.169.146.162] verified) by media-motion.tv (CommuniGate Pro SMTP 4.2.10) with ESMTP id 5243876 for AE-List@media-motion.tv; Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:07:44 +0200 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha1; c=relaxed/relaxed; t=1381219701; l=4676; s=domk; d=mamoworld.com; h=Content-Type:In-Reply-To:References:Subject:To:MIME-Version:From: Date:X-RZG-CLASS-ID:X-RZG-AUTH; bh=8JVakU1wNT0qXqvYM3F8zEg9Zas=; b=O1vI/4BWyq7qdUHF3uOe3JYaHK9JY/l7IyzDh4mfCb88DeFoc/Fx2D/2SkvV7Bbkwno H73stl4VNran03N9YvtvhCLR2tuuSFGbqSNKtLcfLvl4+BfWUPp79VpLLMYyKf/QBzulc R8yC2QJJW8UZZlelV2dHaVjdrl614PIdJt0= X-RZG-AUTH: :JWICemClevKDgu8HjcNJMjRl593UXLPRxATGwvl0czvlKPvWKaNvvwT1g2BbTw== X-RZG-CLASS-ID: mo00 Received: from [192.168.14.23] (p5DC6573A.dip0.t-ipconnect.de [93.198.87.58]) by smtp.strato.de (RZmta 32.6 DYNA|AUTH) with (TLSv1.0:DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA encrypted) ESMTPSA id 901281p987eWqq for ; Tue, 8 Oct 2013 10:08:21 +0200 (CEST) Message-ID: <5253BD76.5070904@mamoworld.com> Date: Tue, 08 Oct 2013 10:08:22 +0200 From: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Mathias_M=F6hl?= User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:17.0) Gecko/20130801 Thunderbird/17.0.8 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: After Effects Mail List Subject: Re: [AE] Text spiralling around a 3D column References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="------------000105040007090408010804" This is a multi-part message in MIME format. --------------000105040007090408010804 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit Brian's solution is great. Just in case you need something more generic one day, I developed this iExpression for such purposes: http://mamoworld.com/after-effects-expression/attach-cylinder-3d Apply it to a 3D layer and it gives the x,y,z values of your layer a different meaning: z is the radius of the cylinder and x and y move the layer along the surface of this cylinder. This makes distributing and animating a bunch of layers on a cylinder surface as easy as animating them in 2D space. Cheers, Mathias Am 07.10.2013 17:16, schrieb sean cusson: > I've been wracking my brain trying to get this to work. I need to create a "beam of data" shooting up in to the sky. The trick is that I need the text to spiral around the beam as though the beam is made, in part, by the text itself which could be up to 100 words. Adding to the complexity, I need it to be 3D as I will be compositing it on top of C4D renders. I know I can build it directly in C4D but I would love to be able to keep it live in AE instead. > > I know that I can create a circle and just have the text wrap around the path but I don't know how I would create a helix/spiral shape without creating the whole thing by hand. These columns are basically shooting up in to the sky so the paths themselves would be quite high (and a huge pain to try and make by hand). > > Has anyone been able to do this in AE? > > > > +---End of message---+ > To unsubscribe send any message to -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------ *mamoworld.com* simplify your cgi dr. mathias möhl marlow 52, 18551 sagard, germany phone +49 (0)38302 - 887561 info@mamoworld.com --------------000105040007090408010804 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

Brian's solution is great.

Just in case you need something more generic one day,
I developed this iExpression for such purposes:
http://mamoworld.com/after-effects-expression/attach-cylinder-3d

Apply it to a 3D layer and it gives the x,y,z values of your layer a different meaning:
z is the radius of the cylinder and x and y move the layer along the surface of this cylinder.
This makes distributing and animating a bunch of layers on a cylinder surface as easy as animating them in 2D space.

Cheers,
Mathias

Am 07.10.2013 17:16, schrieb sean cusson:

I've been wracking my brain trying to get this to work. I need to create a "beam of data" shooting up in to the sky. The trick is that I need the text to spiral around the beam as though the beam is made, in part, by the text itself which could be up to 100 words. Adding to the complexity, I need it to be 3D as I will be compositing it on top of C4D renders. I know I can build it directly in C4D but I would love to be able to keep it live in AE instead.

I know that I can create a circle and just have the text wrap around the path but I don't know how I would create a helix/spiral shape without creating the whole thing by hand. These columns are basically shooting up in to the sky so the paths themselves would be quite high (and a huge pain to try and make by hand).

Has anyone been able to do this in AE?



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