Re: Sphere Object

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From: James_Talmage
Date: Thu, 26 Mar 2009 22:00

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If you want the text to "orbit" the ball, the simplest way is to attach text to an ellipse and set the Type>TypeOnAPath option to Skew.

This does not actually bend the baseline edges of the glyphs; it skews and horizontally scales them. Whether this is visually significant depends on the typeface and number of characters involved.

If it is a problem, and you still want the text to "orbit" as opposed to actually being mapped onto the spherical surface, you can map it to the rectangular surface of a 3D Effect cylinder and turn on the Invisible Geometry checkbox.

JET

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