# Any 3Dsmax people? need to know how to bend text...

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**Created:** [December 5, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-3dsmax-people-need-to-know-how-to-bend-text/59251 "2008-12-05T09:23:32Z")\
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**Post date:** [December 5, 2008, 9:23am UTC](https://forums.speedlife.net/t/any-3dsmax-people-need-to-know-how-to-bend-text/59251/1 "2008-12-05T09:23:32Z")

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Can’t figure it out for the life of me. Want to do a radial effect for a tire sidewall, but can’t seem to find the best way to do it. Tried the bend modified along with a few others and they distort the image too much to be of any real use.

anyone know a good way to do this? Can’t seem to find a decent tutorial either, most are just using normal/bump mapping to simulate the effect instead of modeling it in