Tutorial: Making Alphabet Letters - Adobe ATMOSPHERE User Manual

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its volume from objects that overlaps. For example, if you place a Cylinder so that it passes through a Box, making the
Cylinder subtractive will cause a circular hole to appear in the Box in the Player view.
Cylinder and Box: Cylinder is Subtractive on the left.

Tutorial: Making Alphabet Letters

To create alphabet letters using the Subtractive option, follow these steps:
1 In the Top view of the Solid Object Editor, create a Triangular Slab object and a Floor object.
2 Drag the top connector on the Triangular Slab object until it is centered midway and above the other two
connectors to form the outline a capital letter A.
3 Select Edit > Duplicate (Ctrl+D) to duplicate the Triangular Slab object. Select and move the duplicated
Triangular Slab object until it is positioned inside the other Triangular Slab object and move its lower two
connectors up and inward to form a small triangle inside the larger one. This will be the inside of the letter A.
4 Select and move the connectors for the Floor object to form a trapezoid shape using the Direct Slection Tool (A)
and position it below the duplicated Triangular Slab object.