3D Text - Example and Meshes

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alain(Posted 2010) [#1]
Hi there,

After looking on the internet for nice 3d letter meshes with correct normals and UV coords, I end up doing it by myself using Blender and Python.

I created one b3d mesh for almost all extended ASCII characters. This way you can write anything you want directly on the screen using true 3D fonts.

Here follows an example screenshot:


You can download the zip containing the example code and all the meshes here:

http://www.slide-effect.com/others/3dtext.zip

I hope it helps somebody here!


_33(Posted 2010) [#2]
Thanks. How did you manage to create the font?


puki(Posted 2010) [#3]
This looks exciting.


Polan(Posted 2010) [#4]
_33 he already said he used blender :). Blender have built in 3d fonts so 99% chance he just exported those.


_33(Posted 2010) [#5]
sorry didn't pay attention to the message at first.


alain(Posted 2010) [#6]
Yep, I used Blender built-in fonts.

I created a small Python script to automatize the process, and the b3d exporter script found in this forum.


_PJ_(Posted 2010) [#7]
Nice and very handy.

Nothing wrong with exporting the Blender 3D font meshes. It's the srt of thing that yeah, "anyone can do", but sure helps to have someone else do the legwork so thanks very much, alain!