30 Responses to “3D Text Creator”

1. Aldo Jesus Silva said on November 7th, 2007 at 6:30 pm

   como funciona este programa?

2. lloyd said on November 7th, 2007 at 6:56 pm

   Check this out on info on how to use scripts in AE:

   http://livedocs.adobe.com/en_US/AfterEffects/8.0/help.html?content=WS625657CC-5CCA-41ef-A1C7-055D2557AE56.html

3. Mike Schrengohst said on February 29th, 2008 at 11:03 am

   Hello,

   I installed the scripts. Running AE 7
   and I keep getting errors. Like
   Line 52 Object is not null???

4. lloyd said on February 29th, 2008 at 11:24 am

   I just tested it on AE 7 and it runs fine. I just updated the script today, so re-download it to make sure you are running the latest version.

5. Jason said on May 9th, 2008 at 2:46 pm

   Thank you so much! I can’t believe how many hours you may have saved me with this script.

6. Yafes said on June 5th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

   Did not check it out by now, but i will give a try later on, but seems to b e a very usefull thing!

   thanks for the work

   http:/www.google.at

7. Jeremy said on July 4th, 2008 at 3:39 am

   Is this script available for AE 6? I haven’t upgraded in years but would like to use the effect.

8. Gabriel said on August 3rd, 2008 at 5:26 pm

   I love the script!!!

   I was wondering if there is a way to have this script do the same thing with pictures?

   like for example when I run the script it asks what folder and I point the script to my some picture folder and it processes the images into 3d space.

   Can that be done?

9. Jonas Hummelstrand said on August 28th, 2008 at 7:17 am

   Thanks Lloyd, looking forward to testing this for close-ups for an opening I’m making of per-character 3D letters forming a globe. I have to admit I’ve shown your ESPN spot as a mood sheet for the clients who really liked it.

10. sergio said on November 29th, 2008 at 9:30 pm

    Hello, nice script but, I’m trying to do this with images, not with text. Do you think is it possible using the same concept of your script?

    Somebody asked this…this script run in version 6?

    thanks

11. lloyd said on December 24th, 2008 at 10:23 am

    To do this with images check out: 3D layer distributor

12. Tom Hanser said on January 7th, 2009 at 7:12 pm

    Script runs and produces 3D layers, but previewing and rendering out a movie yields no motion.

    None of the layers have any keyframes - what did I miss?

    Thanks!

13. lloyd said on January 7th, 2009 at 8:09 pm

    @Tom - The script does not produce any keyframes it simply distributes them in 3D space. If you want to get an effect similar to the preview simply add a camera and navigate it through the text.

14. Tom Hanser said on January 8th, 2009 at 2:02 pm

    Thank You, Lloyd!

15. Kyle C said on January 27th, 2009 at 1:06 pm

    Hi there,

    I’m using your 3d text from file script in conjunction with the cinematic opening title sequence tutorial on aetuts.com and I seem to be having the problem of the text documents reading from right to left. All of my text comes in backwards, even though the layer names do display the text in the proper direction.

    I tried putting a camera in and rotating it 180 degrees around to the back, but the layers are not just flipped in a 3d space, they are reading in reverse. I don’t see a control in the script for text direction, so hopefully there’s some obvious explanation for this.

    Thanks,

    Kyle

16. Kyle C said on January 27th, 2009 at 1:22 pm

    I fail.. nm

17. Enrique said on February 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm

    Ok, so I’ve noticed that the script turns my lower and uppercase text to all uppercase. How do I change this, I did not see a variable there to change it. Is there a way to specify this?

18. lloyd said on February 15th, 2009 at 12:16 pm

    @Enrique - The script doesn’t change the case of your type so maybe it has something to do with the font you are using?

19. mochammad said on February 16th, 2009 at 8:33 am

    It is very functional, i have tried it using a camera, it’s great!!

    @Kyle, pls drag the spiral beside 3D icon in each layer to camera layer, i hope it works:)

    Thanks,
    mochammad

20. antonio said on March 3rd, 2009 at 6:03 pm

    Very useful. Thanks!

21. tinypalace said on March 23rd, 2009 at 8:39 am

    Huge thanks for a great script. Wondering if it’s possible to tweak the colours that it applies to the layers? I’m using an adjustment layer with hue/sat just now — which will get me by but I’d prefer more control over the colours if poss. Cheers!

22. lloyd said on March 23rd, 2009 at 10:18 am

    @ tinypalace - If you double click to open the script in ExtendScript Toolkit you
    can define the colors and hue shift range in the user variables
    section at the top of the script.

23. Dj-Lk said on March 30th, 2009 at 12:12 pm

    muy bueno trabajo con after hace poco y esto ayuda mucho

24. Cinematic Opening Title Redux - Day 1 - Aetuts+ said on April 2nd, 2009 at 4:25 pm

    [...] on how to install and run scripts in After Effects Then download and install these scripts: 1. 3D Text Creator Script (download 3D_text_creator_from_file.jsx) 2. 3D Layer Distributor Script (download 3D_text_creator_from_file.jsx) 3. Random Layer Shifter [...]

25. Josh said on April 14th, 2009 at 4:14 am

    I am working on a project at the moment.

    This script is fantastic, but I would love to stop the random placement and make it sequential from the text file
    Any tip on how to do this would save my day!

    thanks in advance

    josh x

26. lloyd said on April 14th, 2009 at 10:24 am

    @Josh - Here you go: 3D_text_spreader_from_file.jsx This version of the script will evenly spread layers in order by a defined amount on each axis.

27. Watson said on April 27th, 2009 at 12:32 pm

    I misspelled my email address on my last mail to you. Anyways, keep the site up!.
    I am from Bosnia and also am speaking English, give please true I wrote the following sentence: “Shop our store for great low prices.”

    Thanks for the help :-D, Watson.

28. Greg said on May 19th, 2009 at 11:47 am

    Hi, I am attempting to use the 3D_Text_Spreader_From_File script. When I make even a minor adjustment to the script (Change x value to 100) the script will not run in AE. I am using Wordpad to edit the script. Am I doing something incorrect?

    Thanks for the help

29. lloyd said on May 19th, 2009 at 11:55 am

    Make sure you are saving it as a regular text file and not a rich text file

30. Greg said on May 19th, 2009 at 12:21 pm

    I checked that… weird. am running CS3 an the script works fine “out of the box”, but if I edit the X value, or change “true” to “false” or anything, it won’t run. Is Wordpad the preferred editor?

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