Re: Bending Text ?
Posted: Mon May 20, 2019 12:40 pm
tulamide wrote:wlangfor@uoguelph.ca wrote:OK, so working on this and it should be fairly featured.
I'm making sure that everything is vector based so that it is not so difficult to position etc. I was thinking though; Odds are You want this to spin? I guessed based on the image you provided.
If so, I'll either use ruby to make it all spin or I will provide a bitmap saver which is automatic and then which in turn can make it spin at Your desired speed.
It's a nice effect and while I feel trigonometry would be more accurate to effectively decide the plane for other sphere styles at least this can handle square ones. Though perhaps due to to it being vector in nature it would work either way? Assuming I added some extra math I suppose.
Will let You know when it is done.
I'm awaiting it eagerly. A real time font bending engine would be great! With all my knowledge I couldn't find a way to realize it. Only with bitmaps, which of course is too CPU heavy, and negates the purpose of realtime vector drawing. So that will come in handy.
OK, this is how far I have gotten and today i will finish. It comes down to using the circumference of the circle and then a new function which automatically reduces spacing, based upon those values it updates every angle etc.
Seems bulky, but it's designed to make an image afterall.
thanks to MyCo for his angled text label module btw.