Text Ribbon Flip

[Dave]

Hi Jurgen, if you remove the Rail (which is causing the twist as its not a clean spline) and just set your text material to show on the FRONT rather than the BACK it should work correctly.

[youragain]

Thanks Dave. The problem without the twist is that the word ‘promise’ is upside down. The other thing that is happening is that the texture seems to be locked and backwards in the c4d file.

Is spline wrap the wrong approach to take?

[Dave]

Spline wrap is perfect for this kind of thing but your text needing to flip adds some complication. You could just flip the letters within the texture itself as an animated image sequence so as it goes into place the letters are subtly rotated

[Dave]

If things are reversed, you can flip your texture or reverse the spline

[youragain]

I tried a version with cubes & nulls along a spline in order to move as desired in space. ( project collect: https://f.io/h1HVSK6y ) The textures aren’t operating as expected when the cubes flip, and overlapping cube seems to be a bit problematic when making adjustments to the type alignment. Additionally, spline animation is a bit chunky. I am wondering what options might help or if a rebuild in a different method would help.

Is my method is too basic, or I am missing the opportunity to use a tool that would make this a non-issue?

Thanks

[Dave]

Hi Jurgen, I’m off for Easter till Tuesday, but I’ll have a look and get back to you then, sounds like you need a guide spline and need to set the spline points to uniform so its even and the speed will remain constant as your object travels along the speed – you could take a look at the box rolling tutorial where I discuss something similar