RE: Inserting text object to wrap around cylinder

[Anonymous]

Please somebody tell me how to wrap text object around a cylinder in 3d.
or any other way of doing it.

[Anonymous]

It could be scripted in GDL by extracting the letters one by one and arranging them on a curve. Or, you could take the manual approach and place individual library parts for each letter.

There is no way that I know to simply distort or wrap 3D elements.

If all you need is a flat poster, take a screen shot of the text and apply it as a texture. This will only work for rendered views though.

[Dwight]

I used the individual letter approach until Archiforma came along.

[Anonymous]

Matthew wrote:
If all you need is a flat poster, take a screen shot of the text and apply it as a texture. This will only work for rendered views though.

... it doesn't need to be just flat! Use an inverted grey-scale image for the bump map and hey hoo you've got bumpy letters

- Stuart

PS. I find that the more developed my 'bump map creation' skills are getting there are many less details that I'm modelling in Archicad.