Hello,

I would place a text to a elastic band, but I don't know how.

The text should placed to a cylinder and my problem is that the text is in a
horizontal level and I don't know how
it can place it to form from the cylinder. How can i do that?
Sure I can place for every char a text field and can it place with rotate to
the right position, but that is a lot of work and I think it can be easier
but I don't know how.

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Take a look at the thread above, "Ingo's Make Mesh include with udo
support". it tells how to do just that.
Steve Shelby

"Bernd Michler" <mb### [at] anti-trojannet> wrote in message
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> Hello,
>
> I would place a text to a elastic band, but I don't know how.
>
> The text should placed to a cylinder and my problem is that the text is in
a
> horizontal level and I don't know how
> it can place it to form from the cylinder. How can i do that?
> Sure I can place for every char a text field and can it place with rotate
to
> the right position, but that is a lot of work and I think it can be easier
> but I don't know how.
>
>
>

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I think I may have given you the wrong advise, unless you are wanting to
create raised or recessed text. For regular text that is simply a different
color from its background, you need to create a graphics file (.bmp,.jpg,
etc.) and use it as an image map (Marerial / standard texture / pigment /
image map).
"Bernd Michler" <mb### [at] anti-trojannet> wrote in message
news:401f5d19@news.povray.org...
> Hello,
>
> I would place a text to a elastic band, but I don't know how.
>
> The text should placed to a cylinder and my problem is that the text is in
a
> horizontal level and I don't know how
> it can place it to form from the cylinder. How can i do that?
> Sure I can place for every char a text field and can it place with rotate
to
> the right position, but that is a lot of work and I think it can be easier
> but I don't know how.
>
>
>

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Hi Bernd,

Do you want to place just a flat image of text on the cylinder? Or do
you want to do CSG, i.e. cut it out of the cylinder? You could CSG a
cylinder with the text and then the text will scale with the cylinder.
If you want the text vertical, simply rotate it by 90 about the Y-axis
before attaching to the CSG....

If I'm not understanding, please describe it in more detail or with an
example....

- Lutz

> I would place a text to a elastic band, but I don't know how.
> 
> The text should placed to a cylinder and my problem is that the text is in a
> horizontal level and I don't know how
> it can place it to form from the cylinder. How can i do that?
> Sure I can place for every char a text field and can it place with rotate to
> the right position, but that is a lot of work and I think it can be easier
> but I don't know how.

- Lutz
  email : lut### [at] stmuccom
  Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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Hi Lutz,

ich schreibe das mal in Deutsch.

Also ich möchte einfach den Text auf einen Cylinder bringen, so das der Text
sich der Form des Cylinders annimmt,
oder halt das wenn ich einen Text in meine Szene setze die einzelnen
Buchstaben in der Position verändern kann.
Bisher habe ich nur die Möglichkeit gesehen das es durch hinzufügen von
einzelnen Buchstaben möglich ist das zu machen, das wiederrum finde ich sehr
aufwendig. Deshalb meine Frage ob es möglich ist den Text sozusagen auf
einem "Gummiband" zu plazieren damit ich diesen in alle möglichen
Richtungen, die ich möchte z.B. eine Schlangenlinie, schieben kann.

Gruß

Bernd

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"Lutz Kretzschmar" <lut### [at] stmuccom> schrieb im Newsbeitrag
news:mo1120150qqpscm8s8d5hqhcq6olvldajs@4ax.com...
> Hi Bernd,
>
> Do you want to place just a flat image of text on the cylinder? Or do
> you want to do CSG, i.e. cut it out of the cylinder? You could CSG a
> cylinder with the text and then the text will scale with the cylinder.
> If you want the text vertical, simply rotate it by 90 about the Y-axis
> before attaching to the CSG....
>
> If I'm not understanding, please describe it in more detail or with an
> example....
>
> - Lutz
>
> > I would place a text to a elastic band, but I don't know how.
> >
> > The text should placed to a cylinder and my problem is that the text is
in a
> > horizontal level and I don't know how
> > it can place it to form from the cylinder. How can i do that?
> > Sure I can place for every char a text field and can it place with
rotate to
> > the right position, but that is a lot of work and I think it can be
easier
> > but I don't know how.
>
> - Lutz
>   email : lut### [at] stmuccom
>   Web   : http://www.stmuc.com/moray

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