# Swift3dV3 - Animating an Extrusion **URL:** \ **Category:** design\ **Created:** [June 27, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258 "2003-06-27T20:47:22Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![vanillaCoke](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/v/e5b9ba/32.png) [@vanillaCoke](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/vanillaCoke)\ **Post date:** [June 27, 2003, 8:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/1 "2003-06-27T20:47:22Z")
Hi, i recently got swift 3d v3, and i can do many basic things, however, i dont seem to be able to animate an extrusion. ie. i have flat text which i want to extrude over 20 frames. this animation will be dropped into a flash site that will be triggered by a roll over. i want the text to extrude up. it seems like it should be simple to me, but i just cant get it to work, as whenever i change the amout of the extrusion, it changes globally, not frame by frame. Thanks for any help!!! ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:34pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/2 "2003-06-30T19:34:38Z")
Sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean. You want to animate text? ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:39pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/3 "2003-06-30T19:39:52Z")
> \*Originally posted by Didiusthegreat \* > \*\*Sorry, but I don’t understand what you mean. You want to animate text? \*\* Right, i want the text to go from flat to 3d text. and i can only seem to get the text to be flat or 3d, i cant seem to get it to animate the change from flat to 3d. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:41pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/4 "2003-06-30T19:41:45Z")
Oh yes, now I understand. You could set the depth of the text 0, then it should work, ofcourse you don’t have any depth anymore then… Wait a sec and I’l search more deeply…🙂 [edit] Oops, made a writing mistake [/edit] ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:47pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/5 "2003-06-30T19:47:00Z")
Alright, I guess that’s the only way… ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 7:58pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/6 "2003-06-30T19:58:42Z")
Right, but when i animate it changes the depth of the text globally across all frames. i want the depth to change from 0 to 2 over 20 frames. ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [June 30, 2003, 8:03pm UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/7 "2003-06-30T20:03:17Z")
I’m sorry but I don’t get it anymore… Could you give a better description? :!: ---
**Author:** ![system](https://canada1.discourse-cdn.com/flex011/uploads/kirupa/original/3X/6/2/621e5c11736f46532526e61be85940af4230f3e5.png) [@system](https://forum.kirupa.com/u/system)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2003, 11:30am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/swift3dv3-animating-an-extrusion/24258/8 "2003-07-30T11:30:05Z")
looks like you will have to gradually increase the text depth yourself and produce an individual image for each increase. Then import the images into flash and combine them. can’t think of any other way, sorry!