Surface Animation - Ulead COOL 3D User Manual

Surface Animation

With this plug-in, you can let your object move and wrap itself around the form of different
three-dimensional shapes. This tutorial shows you how to wrap your object around a small
sphere, have it travel twice around the sphere, and then unwrap at the end. (Settings: 30 frames,
15 fps.)
To animate an object around a sphere:
1 Insert a text object in the Edit Window. Click
Add plug-in and select Surface Animation
in the Attribute Panel.
2 At frame 1, select Sphere as the Surface
around which the object is wrapped in the
Attribute Panel. Set the Path to V Line to
make the object travel vertically, then set
the Wrap Style to Mesh to mold the object
to the surface of the sphere.
3 Enter 10 for all Size coordinates so that the
text is wrapped around a small sphere. Set
the Level to 0.
4 At frame 25, enter 10 for all Size
coordinates, and enter 200 as the Level so
that the object travels twice around the
sphere's surface.
5 At frame 30, set all Size coordinates to 100
so that the size of the ball increases
drastically. Set the Level to 200 so that the
object does not move from the previous key
frame.
6 Click Play to preview the animation.
Tip: Try using the Surface Animation plug-in with the
Board bevel effect, as in this example. This allows
you to actually see the shape or surface around which
your text object wraps.
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