Drop shadow and Glow

[Kalain]

Hi,

Drop shadow and Glow options for text object is absolutly fantastic.

This give a lot of creative and animations possibilities.

In order to give much more power to this feature it would be nice to determine some specific shadow parameters for each keypoint.

This would give some animations to shadows. (shadow won't be any more statics)

Here is a screen to illustrate.

Alain

[Igor]

Thanks, Alain!

But I'm afraid it's impossible at this moment. Only modern video cards can do transformation of drop shadow in realtime. And it requires vastly modify PTE. So I leaved your idea for future.

[Kalain]

Hi,

Thanks, Alain!

But I'm afraid it's impossible at this moment. Only modern video cards can do transformation of drop shadow in realtime. And it requires vastly modify PTE. So I leaved your idea for future.

Ok, I understand this is huge of work.

What about to "Rasterize text to PNG image" function.

By now only text is rasterized.

Is is possible to add in to do list "Rasterize shadow text to PNG image" ?

By this way, you could give some animations to text shadow with PNG image.

Alain

[Ian]

Its possible to achieve a similar effect to this request with a work-around.

First duplicate the object, make sure its 'on top' of the original and modify its shadow/glow parameters to the new settings. Then turn its opacity to zero. At the required keypoint turn its opacity back up to 100%. The shadow/glow effect between the two keypoints will appear to change as the object becomes opaque.

Ian

Hi,

Drop shadow and Glow options for text object is absolutly fantastic.

This give a lot of creative and animations possibilities.

In order to give much more power to this feature it would be nice to determine some specific shadow parameters for each keypoint.

This would give some animations to shadows. (shadow won't be any more statics)

Here is a screen to illustrate.

Alain

[Kalain]

Hi,

Its possible to achieve a similar effect to this request with a work-around.

First duplicate the object, make sure its 'on top' of the original and modify its shadow/glow parameters to the new settings. Then turn its opacity to zero. At the required keypoint turn its opacity back up to 100%. The shadow/glow effect between the two keypoints will appear to change as the object becomes opaque.

Ian

Thanks for the idea.

This is ok when you only want to display or hide shadow, but when you want to do some examples like "The white frame" from TheDom (moving shadow in order to give a 3D dimension) you need to modify all shadow parameters between two keypoints.

Another idea would be to add for Text object a "rasterize shadow text in PNG" function in Properties Tab.

By this way you can move, zoom, change opacity this PNG shadow and give some 3D dimension to text.

Alain

[Kalain]

Hi,

Another idea would be to add for Text object a "rasterize shadow text in PNG" function in Properties Tab.

By this way you can move, zoom, change opacity this PNG shadow and give some 3D dimension to text.

Any comment from developpement team about "rasterize shadow text in PNG" function ?

This could be really nice for text shadow animation.

Alain

[Igor]

No plans at this moment, sorry.