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Subject: Question: liquid font effect

Death_at_Midnight opened this issue on Aug 26, 2007 · 8 posts

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Death_at_Midnight ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 3:46 PM · edited Tue, 17 December 2024 at 1:27 AM

Greetings all! Any idea how I could write a logo looking like spilled liquid? I'm looking for something where it's either a font or a program. If worse comes to worse, I'll use metaballs in Bryce, but I'd rather some external tool where changing the text can be simple.

AnnieD ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 3:52 PM

Have you tried Xara 3D? It does almost anything with text including animation.

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Death_at_Midnight ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 4:07 PM

I think I had used Xara a long, long time ago. Taking a look at their examples in their site, it doesn't look very fuid. I need something more watery... like mercury on the ground.

pakled ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 4:34 PM · edited Sun, 26 August 2007 at 4:35 PM

There are zillions (10 to the ridiculous) number of fonts out there on the web for free...that being said, the hard part is finding what you're looking for. I wouldn't be surprised if there wasn't a font out there that started towards what you're looking for, though I have the feeling that you'd need a more exaggerated version.

The gimp program might let you take a font, then use it as a layer, where you could manipulate (distort) the font the way you want, then flatten the whole megilla when you have what you're looking for. Of course, Photoshop does the same thing (even Corel Draw), but they cost money.

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deadwarrior ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 6:46 PM

Attached Link: Armanisoft_Elefont

Hi D_A_M. I have Xara3D and it only exports BMP's. You might try this little **free** program called Elefont. Really good at manipulating text and works on all TTF's. When your finished it exports as DXF files.

Cool little program.

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Death_at_Midnight ( ) posted Sun, 26 August 2007 at 10:43 PM

Ya, I've used Elefont before. Check out my http://www.renderosity.com/mod/gallery/index.php?image_id=1399973 render.

I saw something in a recent 3D World issue... some company logo in silver looking like water drops look like when it's sitting on a table top. Imagine taking your finger and moving those drops into the shapes of letters. That's the effecting I'm looking for.

I'm going to try the metaball way first to see what effect I get. It's not the solution I'm looking for because there may be need to alter the text many times. This shall be for a web site and for that site's paper publications (manuals, etc.)