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I was playing a level today that had text that looked like stickers but were glowing like holograms. How do you do this?

2011-08-27 09:57:00 Author: Trader347 Posts: 57

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You actually answered your own question! Chances are it's a sticker on Hologram material. Players spell words using (typically) white text letters on a black background in Create mode. They take a picture of the words, pop that on a thin layer of Hologram material in front of a thick material of something else as the "canvas" or "wall" backdrop for the sticker effect. Or pop the picture on a thick layer of Hologram material overlayed directly onto another thick material of something else. (Only the front part of the Hologram "shows through", giving a perfectly illusion of texture or sticker in Hologram material form.) (In other cases the letters themselves might be Hologram objects, instead of stickers, but the effect is the same.) EDIT I see in your signature you created a custom sticker of text on black background for your level badge so you're already 90% there! When doing Hologram stickers it helps to reduce animation to 0% and brightness to 10% or 20% to let detail show through. For "floating" Hologram sticker text (not overlaying another material) stronger brightness is fine.

2011-08-27 12:27:00 Author: Unknown User

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you mean like this from my chain reaction level? http://i135.photobucket.com/albums/q149/tbradt/lbp/chain/Chain1.jpg There's actually two ways to do it. Like arbiekko you can use white text letters on a black background and take a photo of it and use that. But, you may ask, how does one get the text? Well you make it of course. The easiest way I have found is to choose a set size, and place a piece of cardboard of that size on the back thin layer. Then on the thick layer in front of it, create your letter. If you want to use the letter stickers that you collect, it is even easier just place the sticker, and use the sticker cut out tool. You could also get fancy and recreate a font you like by loading up an image editor, typing out the alphabet in that font, and then turning n the grid in your editor. Now turn the grid on in LBP and use the image as a reference while you use the corner editor to make the letters. That's how I made the Arial lettering you see on everything except where it says "chain reaction". You can either use the letters as they are, or you can photograph them for use. The benefit of photographing and using the stickers is that the letters are pretty complex as far as shapes go. This can really do a number on your thermo. Photographing lets you use a sticker on a simple square to get the same effect. For photographing the letters, I set up a level with a black background. Then put a camera down with a 5 second hold, and pointed it at the background. Then I turned the grid on and made a holo square centered in the camera view where I wanted the letters to go and set its brightness to 0. Then I simply moved my letter in, changed to play mode, activated the camera, paused to photograph, and repeat. This may seem like overkill, but if you want the letters to have the exact same placement on the sticker, then that is really the only way to go. That's what I did with the numbers on the left. Each one of the digits is actually 10 pieces of holo overlaid so I can switch between them so it was very important that placement was spot on. Doing that on just those numbers took about 1 and 1/2 bars off my thermo. The name/logo up top, I just made the whole word, photographed it, and stuck it to holo. The spaceship and star stickers are on holo as well. The key is the black background. it makes holo invisible so that it only shows up where there is another color sticker.

2011-08-27 14:12:00 Author: tdarb Posts: 689

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