Glass Cylinder Room Effect

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Hi there,

I want to create the following effect.

You are inside a glass cylindrical room
Glass cylinder has words(text) on its inner surface
if you rotate the cylinder, the various words move(size of the words change based on the perspective) appropriately.

I would like to know if this effect is possible with Unity 3d or should we get our hands dirty by getting into OpenGL...

Any comments/suggestions/help would be really appreciated...

Thanks Ashok

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Answer by Eric5h5 · Mar 16, 2010 at 05:22 PM

Yes, you can do that in Unity. The only slightly tricky part is getting the text on a cylindrical surface. A couple different ways:

1) Use 3D text, one object for each letter, and rotate as appropriate. See this Unity web game for an example...game over has a line of text in a cylinder shape. Also the beginning has lines of text rotating around a cylinder.

2) Render the text to a texture and use that on the glass cylinder appropriately. (Unity Pro only.)

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