Need 3D text to shine

[Diablov90]

I was wondering if there was a way to make a 3D text member really shiny, with
automatic model rotation. Since I have a background with stagelights on it,
and I wanted it to look sort of like the lights were reflecting off of the 3D
text. I have already tried the settings in the 3D text extruder, but it's not
enough. I don't know if there's a way, but just asking.

[James Carrington]

have you tried the reflection map settings?
can make things look really shiny.

where scene is the W3D object....
scene.shader[1].reflectionmap = scene.texture("texturename")

or.... pasted from existing file....
t = scene.newtexture("wert", #fromcastmember, member("water"))

scene.model[1].shader.reflectionmap = t


scene.shader[2].usediffusewithtexture = true

give it a try! :)



best

james.








"Diablov90" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> I was wondering if there was a way to make a 3D text member really shiny,

with

> automatic model rotation. Since I have a background with stagelights on

it,

> and I wanted it to look sort of like the lights were reflecting off of the

3D

> text. I have already tried the settings in the 3D text extruder, but it's

not

> enough. I don't know if there's a way, but just asking.
>

[Diablov90]

How do you get it to work? Since I'm new to this kind of stuff.

[James Carrington]

you could use a reflection map.

james.


"Diablov90" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> How do you get it to work? Since I'm new to this kind of stuff.