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CGDC Times New Roman Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! MOne of the most powerful features of Simply 3D is its ability to load and use *2Ftwo-dimensional drawings from CorelDRAW!, Adobe Illustrator and any 2D *2Hdrawing package that can output to the AI file format. 2D shapes can be *2Lextruded into true three dimensional objects so that they can be oriented in *2HRenderize Live EZ's 3D environment. Or, a 2D drawing can be loaded into *2KRenderize Live EZ as a bitmap image, and mapped on to a rectangular polygon *2Mthat can be oriented in the 3D environment. For a complete discussion of the *2Roptions available at the time an AI file is loaded, please refer to the Loading AI *2>Files from CorelDRAW! section of the Project Designer chapter. AI Files and TrueType Font Files *cKThere are two ways to convert 2D drawings into 3D objects. The simplest way *2Ois to save the 2D drawing into the AI file format, and import that AI file into *2MRenderize Live EZ. During the AI importation process you can set an extrusion *2Ndepth for the 2D drawing, and this determines the "depth", or thickness of the *2O3D object that is created. The way in which the elements of the 2D drawing are *2Ofilled with colors and combined at the time the AI file is saved determines the *2Jnature of the 3D object that is created when Renderize Live EZ imports and *2Nextrudes the drawing. This way of loading objects is discussed in the Loading *2AAI Files from CorelDRAW! section of the Project Designer chapter. *AKAnother way to create a 3D object from a 2D drawing is to save your drawing *2Nfile in the Windows TrueType font (TTF) format, then assign it to a font style *2Nand extrude that custom font using the Visual Font software. This approach is *2Kless direct than using an AI file, but is allows you to define a "bevel" in *2Oaddition to an extrusion depth. Visual Font allows you to define the nature of *2Jthe edge between the front face and the extrude side faces of an object by *2Lassigning a bevel width and bevel height. The use of the TrueType format is *2 discussed later in this chapter. )Creating 2D Drawings for Use in Simply 3D *cHWhen a 2D drawing becomes a 3D object, a polygon structure is created to *2Ndefine the front, side and back sides of the 3D object. This polygon mesh can *2Mbe thought of as the bones that define the shape. In addition, materials are *2Ocreated and assigned to the front and side faces of each element in the object. *2KThese materials can be thought of as the skin that will be wrapped over the *2Jbones. When a 2D drawing is loaded into Renderize Live EZ as a 3D object, *2Qthese materials are assigned different default colors, based on the colors of the Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman Loriginal drawing. You can use the Material Designer in Renderize Live EZ to *2Qdefine textures, reflections, opacity and shininess for these materials. You can *2Nalso split the object up according to materials, so that a different object is *2&created for each element of the shape. *AMNaturally, the shapes in your 2D drawing determine the shape of your extruded *2L3D object. In addition, other factors, including, outlines, fill colors and *2Jcombined/uncombined shapes, all have an important influence on the way the *2Cshapes will appear when they are converted from 2D into 3D objects. *AMThe following topics detail the main considerations when creating drawings in *2GCorelDRAW! for use in Simply 3D. They apply whether you are outputting *2Pyour drawings to the AI file format of the TrueType font file format. In brief, *2*the most important caveats are as follows: +<AIIf you are exporting filled shapes, delete the outlines for those shapes; *A;Use solid color fills instead of texture or gradient fills; *AIIf you have drawn freehand curves, use the Auto-Reduce option in the Node *2?Edit Roll-Up menu to minimize the amount of nodes in the curve. *AIIf you create shapes that cross over on themselves, you must add and edit *2Lnodes at the crossover point to define two separate shapes, one on each side of the crossover point. Outline Shapes and Filled Shapes *PNThe most important rule to insure that useful 3D objects are created from your *2P2D drawing files is to be sure not to include both an outline and a fill for any *2Kgiven shape in the drawing. At best the outline will be ignored when it is *2Jconverted to a 3D object: at worst, the 3D object will include overlapping *2Spolygons that represent the outlines and fills in the shape. Therefore, if a shape *2Lis filled, we strongly recommend that you delete the outline from that shape before saving it as an AI file. *AKWhen outline shapes are imported into Renderize Live EZ and extruded into a *2O3D object, they have no front or back faces: only extruded sides. That is, the *2Plines are extruded to give them depth, but nothing exists in those areas between *2Cthe lines. For example, we create this outline shape in CorelDRAW! @ Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman $Outline shapes created in CorelDRAW! tLWhen the drawing is saved as an AI file and loaded into Renderize Live EZ as *2/a 3D object, the object is rendered as follows: !The outline shapes as a 3D object tQThe camera has been placed below and to the left of the object in order to better *2Qdisplay the object's extruded depth. Note that there are no front or back faces: *2Hbecause the original drawing was an outline, the extruded object is a 3D outline. *AGWhen filled shapes are imported into Renderize Live EZ, the extruded 3D *2Mobject includes front and back faces, in addition to the extruded sides. 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CC""# D""!"" ""!""! DC2#"2#"" DDB#"#"221 DD#"3"#"2 DC"2"322" DD"#4 42#"! 3"#"#"2! 2#"2##"1 3"2#""2 D2#2""2#! D#"#22#" DB"#"##"1 DD3#" DDC22 DD23" DDC#2!!""! "!"!"! DD23" !!"!" DDC#"" DC32"!""!! D@32"" !"!!#34D !"!!" #34D@ ""##D !"!"! !"!!" !!"!" DD3#" "!!"!! DDC22!! !""!!" !##4@ !"24@ !"23D@ !!"##D@ Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman $Filled shapes created in CorelDRAW!. LWhen the drawing is saved as an AI file and loaded into Renderize Live EZ as *2/a 3D object, the object is rendered as follows: 9 The filled shapes as a 3D object QThe camera has been placed below and to the left of the object in order to better *2Qdisplay the object's extruded depth. Note that the filled shapes are represented *22as solid objects with front side and back faces. *ATNote also that each shape exists on a different plane: the circle is in front of the *3#square. This is the result of the Depth Offset " value that was set for the object Lwhen it was imported: if there were no offset between the shapes, the circle *2Lwould be "buried" in the square and we would not be able to see it. In this *2Jexample we have set a large offset so that each of the shapes appears as a *2Pdistinct 3D element. The default Depth Offset value is such that the shapes are *2Roffset just enough to see the front face of each shape. 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Times New Roman tSset at the time the AI file is loaded: a complete discussion of this and all of the *2EAI file importation options is discussed in the Loading AI Files from *23CorelDRAW! section of the Project Designer chapter. *APNote that you should always use solid color fills when creating shapes to import *2Rinto Renderize Live EZ. Pattern fills are translated into solid colors. Gradient *2Qcolor fills break up the surface of the shape into multiple polygons, each with a *2Pdifferent color. This will result is a gradient when the 3D object is rendered, *2Jbut the number of polygons that must be generated to get the effect may be *2Kprohibitively high. If you want to make a 3D object appear with a gradient *2Ncolor, create the filled shape with a solid color in CorelDRAW!, then assign a *2Rbitmap texture of a gradient color to the object after importing it into Renderize Live EZ. *d$Combined Shapes vs Uncombined Shapes *PPIf you are only working with outlines, it doesn't matter whether your shapes are *2Ncombined or uncombined: the resulting 3D object will be the same. However, if *2Myou are working with filled shapes, whether or not shapes are combined has an *2>enormous impact on the nature of the 3D shape that is created. *AMUncombined filled shapes can each have a different fill color. When you save *2Kuncombined shapes into the AI file format and load that file into Renderize *2JLive EZ, a different material is created for each different color, and the *2Nmaterial uses that color from the AI file as its default color. Therefore the *2Kimported 3D object looks very similar to the original 2D drawing. The only *2Rdifference is that each of the different colored areas are "offset" to a different *2Rdepth: that is, they are layered one in front of the other. The illustration of *2L"The filled shape as a 3D object" above displays the results of working with uncombined shapes. Important: > When importing combined filled shapes into Renderize Live EZ, tNset the Depth Offset to 0. Otherwise one-half of the resulting object will be *23offset in relation to the other half of the object. *AMWhen you combine shapes, you are cutting one shape out of another to create a *2Osingle complex element. If we were to combine the shapes in the "Filled shapes *2Kcreated in CorelDRAW!" illustration above, the resulting shape would appear as follows: Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman -A combined filled shape created in CorelDRAW! PThe filled circle has been "cut out" of the filled rectangle. Predictably, when *2Kthis shape is imported into Renderize Live EZ as an extruded 3D object, the rendered shape also has a hole. &A combined filled shape as a 3D Object QThe camera has been placed below and to the left of the object in order to better *2Hdisplay the object's extruded depth. Note that a hole is created in the *2Lappropriate area of the 3D object. The use of combined shapes allows you to *28create very sophisticated 3D objects with little effort. 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Times New Roman tMNote that this object is made up of only one shape Therefore, you should set *2Hthe Depth Offset to 0 when you import the object into Renderize Live EZ; *2?otherwise, the object may be offset in an unanticipated manner. *d"Drawing Freehand and Bezier Curves *PHWhen you create shapes using CorelDRAW!'s Freehand Curve or Bezier Curve *2Ftools, keep in mind that the more nodes in your curved shape, the more *2Qpolygons are required to create the 3D object. After creating curves, be sure to *2Huse the Auto-Reduce option on the Node Edit Roll-Up menu to minimize the number of nodes in the curve. *AHWhen you load an AI file into Renderize Live EZ, remember that the Curve *2LResolution value indicates the number of lines that are created between each *2Mnode. If you define a curve with 10 nodes, and set a Curve Resolution of 10, *2Kthe resulting 3D object will have 100 polygon segments to define the curve. *2ITherefore, when working with curvy shapes be careful how high you set the *2NCurve Resolution value during the AI file load process, because it can quickly *2Nincrease the number of polygons required to create the 3D object, and the more *2Dpolygons in the object, the slower that object will load and render. *AJThe Curve Resolution value, entered during the AI File loading process, is *2Hdiscussed in full in the Loading AI Files from CorelDRAW! section of the Project Designer chapter. *d,Drawing Shapes that Cross Over on Themselves *PNUsing the Curve Tool or the Node Edit Tool, it is possible to draw shapes that *2Qcross over on themselves. The simplest example of this shape is a figure eight. *2NThese shapes will not extrude correctly when loaded into Renderize Live EZ. *2ITherefore, they must be edited in CorelDRAW! prior to export, in order to *2'insure that a valid shape is generated. *AOTo edit a crossover shape so that it will work as a 3D object, you must zoom in *2Non the point of crossover, then use the Node Edit to add a node at that point, *2Jbreak apart the lines and move one endpoint away from the crossover point. *2MThen add another one on the remaining line and break it apart also. Finally, *2Kreposition and join the nodes so that you have defined two closed shapes on *2Peach side of the crossover point, and combine these shapes so that they exist on *2Jthe same offset plane when the AI file is imported into Renderize Live EZ. +Saving AI Files from CorelDRAW! and Loading them into Simply 3D *cMThere are no tricks to saving your CorelDRAW! drawings to the AI file format. *2CSimply select File, Export from the CorelDRAW Menu Bar, then choose Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman J"Adobe Illustrator 1.1, 88, 3.0 (*.AI, *.EPS)" from the List Files of Type *2Fpop-down. After you type in the desired filename and press OK, a menu *2)appears with a list of AI output options. *AKAlthough it shouldn't matter, we recommend that you output using the "Adobe *2HIllustrator 3.0" option. In addition, you should export Text as Curves. *AKAI files can be loaded directly into Renderize Live EZ using the File, Load *2KObject command from the Menu Bar. For a complete discussion of the loading *2Iof AI files, refer to the Loading AI Files from CorelDRAW! section of the Project Designer chapter. )Saving TrueType Files from CorelDRAW! and Loading them into Simply 3D *cGCorelDRAW! shapes can also be output to the Windows TrueType font (TTF) *2Mfile format. This allows you to load the shape into Visual Font software for *2Jconversion into a 3D object. The advantage of this is that you can define *3Gextrusions with more visual feedback, and in addition you can define a bevel Ofor the shape. A bevel is created at the corner between the front face and the *2Pside face of the extruded shape. Visual Font allows you to define the width and *2Ldepth of the bevel, which determines how deeply the bevel face cuts into the *2"front and side faces of the shape. *APNote that you can only export single shapes into the TTF file format. Therefore *2Oyou may need to combine shapes before saving to this file format. In addition, *2Jcolor information is not saved as part of a TrueType font. For a complete *2Ndiscussion of the kinds of shapes that can be saved as TrueType fonts, as well *2Las an explanation of all of the TrueType export options, please refer to the *2KCorelDRAW on-line help. Specifically, do a Search for TTF, and you'll find two entries: +<AISelect the "TTF fonts: Notes on exporting" entry, then select the "Export *2JAdobe Type 1/ TrueType Fonts -- Technical Notes" topic for a discussion of valid shapes. *AISelect the "TTF: creating TrueType fonts" entry, then select the "Special *2GText Features" topic and choose the "Creating Adobe Type 1 and TrueType *2IFonts and Symbols" heading for a complete discussion of the TrueType font export features. DTransferring shapes from CorelDRAW! to Renderize Live EZ through the *2MTrueType file format involves several steps. First you must export the shape *2Rinto the TTF file format and assign it as a keystroke in a font family. Next, you *2Mmust add that font family to the list of installed fonts in Windows, if that *2Qfamily is not yet installed.. Now you can select that font family in Visual Font *2Jand type the keystroke that was assigned to the shape, and that shape will *28appear in Visual Font, ready to be extruded and beveled. @ Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman tKTo save a shape as a TrueType font, select File, Export from the CorelDRAW! *2FMenu Bar and select "TrueType Font, *.TTF from the List Files of Type" *2Npop-down. If you type in a unique filename and press OK, a dialog box appears *2Min which you must assign a font family name that refers to this file: this is *2Msimply the font style name that will appear when a Font Browser is displayed. *2LIn addition, this dialog box includes a Symbol Font check box: do not enable this check box. *AGNote: When you create new TrueType font files, don't save them into the *2PWindows directory. Instead, save the file to a working directory, and reinstall *2>the font as needed after you add a new shape to a font family. *AN If you assign the shape to an existing TTF filename, that shape will be added *2Oas a character in the existing font family: it will not replace shapes that may *2Jalready be assigned to that TTF file. We strongly recommend that you work *2Kthis way, creating your own unique font family and assigning your shapes to *2Ndifferent keystrokes in that family. That way you won't be modifying TrueType *2Icharacter sets that may have come with Windows or from a third party font *2Lvendor, and you'll have your own font style in which your shapes are stored. *ALAfter assigning the shape to a TTF file and assigning a font family name (if *2Eyou've created a new TTF file), a dialog box appears on which you are *2Nprompted to assign the shape to a keystroke. The keystroke you choose here is *2Gthe keystroke that you will press to make the shape appear when you are *2Kworking in Visual Font. After assigning the desired keystroke, press OK to *2Icomplete the command. You must remember or notate the keystroke that you *2Phave assigned to a shape, because will be no indication later on that your shape *2Ois assigned, for example, to the letter "A". And remember, the assignation of *2Lshapes to keystrokes is case-sensitive. This dialog box also has some other *2Ktype-in boxes that allow you to determine the position of the character in *2Rrelation to the other characters in the current font family. These values are not *28important unless you plan to type in a string of shapes. *AOAfter creating a new font family, or adding a shape to an existing font family, *2Oyou must install (or reinstall) that font in Windows. To do so, select Control *2KPanel from the Main program, group, then select the Fonts icon. Select the *2MAdd button, then change directories to the one where the shape was saved as a *2OTTF file. The font family name appears, and you can install it by selecting it *2Hand pressing OK. That font family name should now appear in the list of *2Hinstalled fonts, so when you choose the Format, Choose Font command from *2RVisual Font, that font family will be listed. If the font family has already been *2Ginstalled in Windows, you must delete it using the Remove command, then *2Mreinstall in order to update it with any shapes you have added since the last time the font was installed. *AHAfter you choose the desired font family in Visual Font, simply type the *2Okeystroke that was assigned to the shaped, and that shape appears in the Visual *20Font Viewport, ready to be extruded and beveled. Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! Times New Roman Notes @ Using Simply 3D with CorelDRAW! 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