I hope to get a tutorial of this effect up on my website soon.



Font is called Garamond

Rod-Like the effect(kinda like Safari) but wouldn't you have to adjust some of the parameters based on the type of font used, say fat vs thin? Looks like you used some sort of Mosaic for the basic pattern.

Just threw quickie this together.

The reptile text i created uses lighting effects and channels for the bevel, and scale lighting.
And it will work for just about any font.
There were no pattern images or pat files used for this effect.

Ah. That makes sense. Can't wait for the script.

Script?

Here is another example with Georgia Bold typeface.
Same steps different font.

Yeah, script. You know how it works, somebody does a tut then low and behold sombody makes a script out of it.

lol ... Truthfully i was thinking about it. It would be a nice challenge for me adding channels and new layers.
I could probably learn a lot from writing it.

I would like to do the tutorial first though.Show how to do it manually.

Hey I'm definitely down with that. I'm all about how to do things manually the old school way. I would much rather see that than just a monkey see, monkey do version. Learning how to do stuff is much more interesting to me than just following steps. Knock yourself out.

waits with baited breath for the tutorial!! since I'm a bit dumb without one!