Metalic looking Text
by mmazur1o5
on
Mar 5, 2007 at 3:29:53 pm
I want to make a logo appear to be made of metal while still maintaining its original color. I want it to have a shine to it in other words. Can someone help?
Re: Metalic looking Text by Nate Vander Plas on Mar 5, 2007 at 4:30:46 pm
Are you thinking of a super-reflective shine, like chrome? Or just a little bit of light reflecting? For the second one you can make your text 3D and then mess with the material settings. You will have to add a spotlight to actually get the effect.
Unfortunately, if you want chrome you're probably going to need a plugin like Zaxwerks.
Re: Metalic looking Text by Derrick van Niekerk on Mar 5, 2007 at 5:25:58 pm
hhmmmm.....
You want it to maintain the original color, I'm just thinking out load here, but metal reflects. So maybe you want to create the effect of reflection.
This can be done numerous ways I suppose,
But try this, choose a still or video as to use as a reflection layer, put it on top of the layer and change the layer's mode to SCREEN. lower the opacity of the layer to taste.
No reflection is usually distorted, so stretch the layer out of porportion to fake the distortion, or use a distort effect if you want, but usually stretching it is enough.
If there is to much detail in the reflection, add a levels effect and clip some of the detail.
Re: Metalic looking Text by Mylenium on Mar 5, 2007 at 8:23:45 pm
Put whatever you want to be your shine/ glint/ glare on a separate layer top of your other layer and use blendmodes like add, multiply, screen and overlay. You may wish to add some nice image somewhere inbetween the stack and distort it to convey the illusion of something actually reflecting. The key to successs is to animate the position of your reflection elements whenever your main layer moves as reflections are merely dependent on the glancing angle.
Re: Metalic looking Text by Peter Litwinowicz on Mar 5, 2007 at 9:03:41 pm
Our SHade/Shape can help you do that. it's $89.95, and can "environment map" a 2d image onto your text. With the proper texture map you can make it look like metal.
