Haydenovative Posted June 21, 2013 Share Posted June 21, 2013 Hey Team, I've decided our standard white title block looks great with 2D plan shots, but looks kinda fugly when superimposed over our nice renders. I'm trying to create an embossed logo or something of the like as a second title block. Ideally its just our logo in the right hand corner and Id like it to be transparent hence embossed or a glass object or something. I realize you cant render a title block nor can a symbol or 3D polygon be rendered on the sheet layer, does anyone out there have an idea of how this might be accomplished? Attached is a photo of my last failed attempt. Thanks guys! Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 (edited) Like this? Edited July 11, 2013 by Tom G. Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 What I did was, in a new file, turned the type into polylines, ungrouped, extruded each letter, filled the letters and tipped for 3D effect. I exported the image as a jpg and imported it back into the file of my interior rendering, directly onto the Sheet Layer holding the interior image. Once imported onto the Viewport, I can mess with the opacity slider. Most significantly, in the creation of the logo, after creating a jpg of the text, I made the text image into an image prop which gave me the ability to create a mask thus the logo had no white box surrounding the text. I've not done this before so may have missed an easier process. The process of creating the mask should be outlined but I've just been handed a deadline to meet. Someone else might fill in the blanks? Other ideas out there? Tom Vwks 2013 Designer Quote Link to comment
Jonathan Pickup Posted July 11, 2013 Share Posted July 11, 2013 text along a path, using 3D Extrusions. Quote Link to comment
Tom G. Posted July 12, 2013 Share Posted July 12, 2013 If you are not interested in 3D text or 3D logos--and you never said you were--simply add text or paste in your 2D line work onto the Sheet holding the image (the Viewport) of your Cafe rendering (and ignore my original response above concerning masks and so on.) Use the opacity sliders to adjust to suit the particular exposure of each rendering. My advice here presumes you have already rendered your scene as an image file of some sort, then added it onto a new Design Layer which you've then turned into a Viewport. Tom Quote Link to comment
Haydenovative Posted July 15, 2013 Author Share Posted July 15, 2013 Thanks Guys! Both of those options work well, Ive achieved something I can live with, however even when my line work has our company colours as soon as I toggle the opacity it goes to see-through white, is there a work around for this? Quote Link to comment
bcd Posted July 15, 2013 Share Posted July 15, 2013 Sounds like a job for Photoshop Quote Link to comment
chaz Posted August 20, 2013 Share Posted August 20, 2013 agreed, use Photoshop and save yourself a lot of trouble chaz Quote Link to comment
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