Firefly style reference not binding to text

Forum|Forum|1 year ago
January 19, 2025
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Hi everybody,

I'm seeing numerous tutorials on applying textures to text on YT. Mine just doesn't work. I've tried various textures and it only stuck like 2 out of 10 times. Rope like items are the only thing that work. Aby other texture fills the background space as well. Kind of frustrating.

What's the secret/hack to making this work? It's just not reliable for me for some reason. (some files attached)

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Oh.N8

Community Expert

Hey @Xander36210402r7ns

Just to add a bit more to the discussion.
Prompt
Polished Gold "King James V" text: made of fluid gold
Reference Image

Definitely make sure to use a "blocky" font, as you mentioned. This helps considerably.
Adjust the slider(s).

Quite honestly, I have to run 2 or 3 generations to get something that "works".

Cheers

O.Nate

Monika Gause

Community Expert

Those 3 hours I posted above are not an exaggeration. I have asked some creators of some tutorials how long it took them and that's what they told me.

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Xander36210402r7nsAuthor

Inspiring

Wow, good to know. and then you have all the screengrab close-ups too. Yikes. That's a lot of editing.

Monika Gause

Community Expert

The hack is that these 3 minutes of tutorials are cut from 3 hours of prompting

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Xander36210402r7nsAuthor

Inspiring

I figured out the hack. It has to do with the nature of the font (I think). Wirery/cursive fonts require a slender/wirery texture shape source, not a blocky one. That's why a lot of these YT tutorials use seriously fat fonts. Like, if you want your cursive to be wood textured, use a wooden pole not a block.

(image attached)
prompt: pole of ice on flat plain white background

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