WEBVTT 00:00.210 --> 00:04.860 In this lesson, I want to take a quick break from the Orbe and show you how we can apply this effect 00:04.860 --> 00:06.300 to text inside of Maya. 00:06.750 --> 00:09.330 Now, this scene is available in the project downloads. 00:09.330 --> 00:13.260 I encourage you to open it and check it out to inspect it for yourself. 00:13.260 --> 00:19.470 But I'm going to run through this scene very quickly and then recreate it as much as you need to know 00:19.470 --> 00:20.170 up to this point. 00:20.400 --> 00:25.710 So basically, we've created text with the text tool and then I've duplicated that mesh out and then 00:25.710 --> 00:30.930 separated each letter so that each letter can have the texture to former applied to it separately. 00:30.960 --> 00:35.720 That's all we have so many textured to here, but everything else is the same up to this point. 00:35.730 --> 00:41.580 It's just the matter of creating the text and then getting enough deformable geometry that will look 00:41.580 --> 00:47.130 good as the texture to former as applied to it, and then applying the same effect we've done with the 00:47.370 --> 00:52.350 nerves curve and the texture the former attached to emotion path on it. 00:52.590 --> 00:57.090 And it's just the fact that we're separating each letter, because if they were all on the same texture 00:57.090 --> 01:02.070 to form or they would all loop together and it wouldn't look very unique because it would look like 01:02.070 --> 01:05.460 they're all part of the same blob when their individual letters. 01:05.460 --> 01:06.940 So that just wouldn't make sense. 01:07.230 --> 01:12.630 So that's why I've separated each out into their own mesh and made a textured reformer for each one. 01:13.020 --> 01:14.190 So let's create a new scene. 01:14.190 --> 01:16.770 And before I do that, I just want to show you where this is. 01:17.010 --> 01:18.570 It's called Text Underscore Before. 01:18.780 --> 01:20.010 So I encourage you to open this up. 01:20.010 --> 01:25.020 Everything is the same as the next lesson is going to be at the end of the course. 01:25.020 --> 01:29.160 And I've just added this to basically what we'll complete in the next lesson. 01:29.460 --> 01:33.030 But for now, just to show you how to create text quickly, I'm going to create a new scene. 01:33.570 --> 01:37.260 And to access the text tools, you just need to go to modeling and hit text. 01:37.890 --> 01:46.110 And then I sintered the text and I made the font fairly small based on the current camera we had in 01:46.110 --> 01:46.650 the scene. 01:47.070 --> 01:54.390 And then under the geometry tab, I can adjust the depth of the extrusion here by decreasing that a 01:54.390 --> 01:54.840 little bit. 01:56.170 --> 02:00.690 I can also increase the amount of curvature for the letters themselves. 02:00.690 --> 02:02.430 So there's a bit more resolution there. 02:03.000 --> 02:08.520 And then I can also add a Bevell so that the edges aren't very sharp, so I can enable Bevell and then 02:08.520 --> 02:13.160 I can reduce the Bevell distance down so that the letters aren't too puffed out. 02:13.500 --> 02:18.540 Now, the other thing I can do to give myself some room between letters is to increase the tracking 02:18.720 --> 02:19.620 under text. 02:19.620 --> 02:25.620 If I go here and increase the tracking this way, the blob kind of effect will have a little bit of 02:25.620 --> 02:30.150 gap here so it can be applied to each letter and they won't intersect with each other. 02:30.150 --> 02:33.930 So we can actually increase that beyond ten and type in whatever value we want. 02:34.410 --> 02:36.510 Now we just need to duplicate this out. 02:36.810 --> 02:42.840 So in case we ever wanted to go back to the original one and access this tab here, we can do so. 02:42.840 --> 02:45.390 You can see with the duplicate, we no longer have that. 02:45.600 --> 02:48.300 And this will live as its own geometry. 02:48.300 --> 02:53.310 Now it's going to hide the original by control and now focus on the duplicate. 02:53.610 --> 02:57.630 I'm going to go to the modeling tools and go to mesh separate. 02:58.200 --> 03:02.490 Now we'll separate each piece into their own mesh, each letter into their own mesh. 03:02.760 --> 03:07.650 And I'm going to go to edit, delete by type history and that will just clean up the history of each 03:07.650 --> 03:08.220 object. 03:08.220 --> 03:10.860 And then I want to go through each letter and center the pivot. 03:11.190 --> 03:13.740 So I'm going to go to modify center pivot. 03:13.890 --> 03:16.470 That means basically where the manipulator will show up. 03:16.770 --> 03:19.080 You can see if we don't do that, it will be at the center of the world. 03:19.290 --> 03:21.210 So I've modified center pivot. 03:21.210 --> 03:22.800 It'll snap to the center of that object. 03:23.040 --> 03:28.440 Now that I've done that operation, I can just hit G to access the last operation and select each one 03:28.440 --> 03:28.680 and hit. 03:29.550 --> 03:32.730 The advantage of doing that is then you can use a custom script. 03:32.730 --> 03:39.750 I'm going to provide in the project files and you can also access a YouTube video where I describe how 03:39.750 --> 03:43.410 to use a custom script and how to load it onto a custom shelf. 03:43.620 --> 03:50.520 Of course, you're free to ignore this step and manually place each circle curve at the center of each 03:50.520 --> 03:52.890 letter if you want to do it manually. 03:53.010 --> 03:55.320 But for speed sake, we're going to use the script here. 03:55.920 --> 04:01.170 So now all we have to do is select all the pieces of geometry by dragging them and then running the 04:01.410 --> 04:01.950 script. 04:02.940 --> 04:08.850 That will place a curve on each one of the objects at their center because that's where we want the 04:08.850 --> 04:10.770 texture form to be rotating around. 04:11.250 --> 04:15.330 Now, the last thing that we need to do before we apply the texture of former is add more geometry so 04:15.330 --> 04:20.520 that the faces can deform properly, because as it is now, this isn't enough geometry. 04:20.550 --> 04:23.910 The face is a single face and that wouldn't deform properly. 04:23.910 --> 04:25.470 We need more edges here. 04:25.740 --> 04:29.670 The easiest way to do that in my twenty twenty is go to mesh. 04:30.030 --> 04:31.020 Right, apologize. 04:31.410 --> 04:35.640 It's turned green because it has lost the shader so we can just right. 04:35.640 --> 04:40.440 Click and say assign existing material and say type blent. 04:40.590 --> 04:45.660 Now we can go through and do the same operation with each one of these meshes. 04:48.830 --> 04:52.310 For whatever reason, some of these are losing the Shater and some of them aren't. 04:52.690 --> 04:53.750 It's not that big of a deal. 04:54.440 --> 05:00.920 We can just reassign the Shater to all the geometry that's lost it by going to assign existing material 05:00.920 --> 05:01.520 type blinn. 05:02.630 --> 05:11.030 Now, that had more edges placed on its faces, we can just increase that by smoothing the mesh of each 05:11.030 --> 05:13.760 one of these so we can go to mesh smooth. 05:15.320 --> 05:19.050 Now, you can see that's increase the subdivision's one level and that's all we need. 05:19.070 --> 05:20.580 I'm not going to increase it more than that. 05:21.350 --> 05:25.490 Now we have enough geometry for each one of these to apply a texture to form or as we've already done 05:25.490 --> 05:28.910 and you've learned in this course, go to to form texture. 05:30.490 --> 05:37.750 I'm going to choose the direction normal and apply our 3D volume noise that I'm going to reduce the 05:37.750 --> 05:43.840 amplitude a little bit and go back to the texture itself and decrease the strength quite a bit. 05:44.650 --> 05:53.380 I'm also going to scale up this so it's a bit softer of an effect and then we can do what we've learned 05:53.380 --> 05:57.100 and just constrain this to the curve. 05:59.340 --> 06:09.720 With emotion path, then we can choose the emotion path, UNCAC follow, select it double, click the 06:09.720 --> 06:13.520 timeline, right, click the timeline and choose tangents linear. 06:15.330 --> 06:22.800 Now we have the same effect we had on the orb, but it's on a letter and we can adjust each one of these 06:22.800 --> 06:27.500 to give them a bit more variation by simply repositioning the curve itself. 06:27.750 --> 06:33.330 So even if we use the same scale amount for each texture to form, or we can adjust them slightly so 06:33.330 --> 06:38.820 that each one has a slightly different type of deformation because they'll be oriented differently based 06:38.820 --> 06:39.500 on the curve. 06:40.350 --> 06:41.430 So that's how you do that. 06:41.430 --> 06:44.580 And then you would go through and apply the same material. 06:44.580 --> 06:49.440 And don't forget to go to Arnold and increase the subdivisions at render time as well. 06:49.830 --> 06:54.300 So it's nice and smooth, but everything else is the same for the rest of the course. 06:54.480 --> 06:57.960 You just have to go through each one of these letters and do this so it's a little bit more tedious. 06:58.140 --> 07:00.570 That's why we're focusing on doing it on a single orb. 07:00.570 --> 07:05.700 In the next lesson, we're going to wrap up rendering the orb and how to batch, render and bring it 07:05.700 --> 07:09.450 into after effects for compositing and exporting as a movie file.