Adding the Text for the Logo

Creating and Animating a Flying Logo

Adding a Spotlight

 

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Adding a Background and a Material

You'll make the scene more interesting by simply adding a background that makes the earth sphere appear to be in outer space. You'll then add a shiny gold material to the logo text for more impact.

Set up the scene:

• Continue from before, or open tut_wwdesigns_globe_text_rotating.max.

Add a background:

1. Open the Rendering menu > Environment.
2. Click the Environment Map button. In the Material/Map Browser, double-click Bitmap. Navigate to \tutorials\worldwide_designs and choose stars10.jpg.

   This is a large high resolution starfield background.

3. Move the time slider to frame 50.
4. Activate the Perspective viewport and click the Quick Render button.

   The image renders with the Earth in front of the stars.

   WarningIf you've set your rendering resolution to something too small you won't see the stars in the rendering. You need to render at 640 x 480 to really see the stars in this background image file.

   The next step is to make the logo text more interesting.

Add a material to the text:

1. On the main toolbar, click the Material Editor button. Click an unused sample sphere.
2. Click the Get Material button. In the Browse From group, click Mtl Library, then double-click Metal_Dark_Gold [Standard] .

   The sample sphere displays a shiny gold material.

3. Make sure Text01 is selected, click the Assign Material to Selection button.
4. Click the Show Map in Viewport button.

   The text is now gold.

5. Render the scene.

   

   Golden text

6. Save your work to an incremental file name. Choose File > Save As. Click the incremental save button.

Now, you'll add a spotlight that will illuminate each letter of the logo as it rotates.