Re: Pyramid of spheres

Hey Michael

For text to curve, you lay down your curve (NURBS Curve, Circle, Path
or Bezier Curve) by pressing the space bar in the 3D window. First
check that your cursor is in the right place, though. From what I'm
reading you should select your (joined) pyramid mesh, or
alternatively, if its not a single joined mesh, select all the parts
so they're highlighted. Hit Shift-S in the 3D window and then
"Cursor>Selection" from the menu that pops up. This centres the cursor
right in the middle of your pyramid or sphere. Once you're centred, I
think a NURBS circle might be the best for what you want to do. Hit
the space bar in the 3D window - Add - Curve - NURBS Circle. Note the
name of the curve in the bottom left corner of the 3D window.

Add your text (space bar - add - text). Edit text in Edit Mode and hit
Tab to get to object mode. With text selected hit F9 or go into the
editing context in the buttons window (the icon is 4 vertices
connected in a square). In the "font" box you can control the text
like a word processor, and you'll see a TextOnCurve textbox. Enter the
name of your curve and the text will follow the curve. Hope this helps.

Blender is software (webware requires you to be online, like aniboom -
I think), but as you can see its also a community and an approach to
learning 3D. Links to the manuals: 

http://en.wikibooks.org/wiki/Blender_3D:_Noob_to_Pro
http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Manual/Manual



--- In [email protected], "Michael" <studentroland@...> wrote:
>
> Hi, and thankyou very much, all three... I have with yálls help managed 
> to create the figure, or "mesh", just as it looks like in the picture 
> http://www.makeanote.org/SamplePic.jpg
> and also subsequently copy it and joining the copies aswell, thus 
> creating a larger "tree"...This is a fantastic software, or is it 
> perhaps "webware"?, and I will look for the manual...A manual would for 
> sure be useful... I am currently slowly, slowly learning to attach 
> writing to a UVsphere, and as far as I have understood the process up 
> to now, the way to do it is to create a "textmesh", curve it and then 
> join the curved textmesh with the sphere, thus creating one mesh out of 
> it... So far, I can create the text-mesh, but not curve it... I have 
> not seen anywhere any hint that it is possible to "write" directly onto 
> a sphere, but it is perhaps possible using textures...? For now, I´ll 
> stick to solve the curved mesh-mystery, and get the manual... Thanx 
> again for all useful advice on the pyramid...
>                                          Michael.
>