text around a marquee

Artistic Support Animation and Rigging
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I’m trying to create an LED light ticker simulation. My goal is to be able to make text track around a curve so I can create a fancy LED ticker that wraps around the corner of a building.

I can think of two ways to do it. One would be to some how animate a texture on the face where the ticker should be and try to move the texture across it during a certain amount of time. (I don’t know if it would work across multiple faces.

The 2nd way, could be faster, which is create some text, and be able to make it follow a curve as it moves, as if it were like a train moving along railroad tracks, but always facing the same direction.

Can anyone recommend a method of how to do either. I’d really love to know how to make text follow a path.

thanks so much.

2

Hi,

http://davidjarvis.ca/blender/tutorial-13.shtml

But don’t do the MBLUR part.

3

have not seen the tut, but put a mesh with holes in front of the text to make it look like lightbulbs. You’ll get that winking effect.

4

I don’t think this really answers what I’m trying to do. Can you animate text on a curve or something so it slides along and follows the curve and remain perpendicular to it?

5

http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Text#Curve_and_Surface_attributes