Is it possible to re-create this without using Fx?

[Chris26]

i have spent 2 hours trying to re-create something I did using only the Fx 3D filter only.  I was sure that this would be so easy using only Vector shapes and gradients and I thought it would be easy, but no, as usual, it got frustrating.  The left image was created simply with 3D, it simply has a texture under-layer which I made of copper.  The right hand image is my attempt to re-create this.  I tried using just the tranparency fill tool on one layer, but this will not work since I need THREE layers on top of the copper texture, One for the vertical light, One for the bottom Horizontal light area and then the left hand darkened part.

Underneath that "Overlay" blend mode is that is highlighted is the blend mode "Hard Light".  I had no choice but to use blend modes to get that copper texture to come through, but these blend modes have complexed the whole fill transparency.  Can somone please put me out of my misery?  This has to be so simple but I can not figure it out.  If this is complicated then I will be so so  happy, if I have missed something so simple in my approach then I will definitely scream for being stupid.

[firstdefence]

Tried a sharp edge 3D using shapes and the transparency tool

 

  

3D ish.afdesign Saved with history so you can jog back and forth in the history panel. 

[v_kyr]

The fast and quick way would be, to trace a much higher res capture of that (to get better tracing results), in order to convert it all to plain reusable vectors then (also the texture), thus no raster/bitmap image parts.

[Chris26]

Hallo firstdefence and v_kyr

Firstdefence thanks, I saw your graphic in Outline and that makes everything clear. So I would need to simply blur the edges of the right and bottom sides to make a seamless join and of course change a few things so that it is flatter rather than a box.  I get the idea though and will give it a go.  Though I would still need the raster copper texture, I have no idea how to create vector textures yet, that is for another day.

v_Kyr, thankyou but I actually do not understand what you mean.  do you mean basically the same as firstdefence except instead of making boxes, trace my outline edges.  You don't mean the letters as well?  I can not understand what your layers are I am sorry.

 

EDIT:  Ok, here is a screen shot quick, the secret lay in combining firstdefence's techniques with PIN light blend and transparent fill tool of course, but thankyou firstdefence.  v_Kyr, I still would highly value your elaboration of what you said above, I will appreciate that, I can not stop learning you know and something you say may be the groundwork for further experimentation.( By the way, the ugliness of the screen shots are not representatove of the quality of the raster based object in my design)..

 

SECOND EDIT:  Well I guess it can not be perfectly re-created.  The problem lies with the underlying texture not showing through in those white areas as much as it does when I use the 3D in the Fx dialogue.  For the rest the whole concept would work, but how to get the texture through that white evades me when I keep strictly to vector shapes and transparency fill tool.  As you can see here in the below screenshot.

 

Yep done, all vector except the texture, just remains now to blur the lightened areas, since a normal transparency filter has been applied in order to retain the texture, pixel persona has no Blur filter (and with a mask that would have been handy), the Blur tool does not work at all in pixel persona.  The Fx Gaussian blur absolutely does not work since there has to remain that transparency tool across the 2 layers.  I guess it is more brain mangling....How to apply blur?  I guess we have to load up A.Photo and take it into that programme.