Font -> OBJ tool?
cwichura
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Any suggestions for a simple/cheap font -> OBJ conversion tool, to make (extruded) 3D objects out of installed (TrueType) fonts on the system? I'm just looking to make OBJs for U, S and A for a belated independence day render idea I've got.
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http://www.daz3d.com/shop/font-to-mesh-express-converter/
Hexagon may be able to do this. Is Daz still giving it away fro free?
http://www.daz3d.com/shop/software/hexagon/hexagon-2-5-download-version/
Also Sketchup can create text but the free version limits export of mesh as "kmz" for Google Earth or "dae" Collada file.
Daz Studio can read "dae" Collada file and then export it as an obj mesh. However it may not be a clean mesh.
http://sketchup.google.com/
Hexagon can do font to obj quite well
also there is this proggy http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/elefont/Elefont.html
Yes hex can do it for free as can trueSpace 7.61 which is also free...
If you're using bryce try "Elephont", also free. Do not know how it sits with other apps.
Cheers
GG
This is a tip from another user (sorry I could not find the link to this tip in the old forum) to create font objects with Hexagon:
Wings3D, it is free and super quick to turn true type font into an object (.obj) format.
http://www.wings3d.com/wiki.php?title=Downloads
Anim8or has been able to do this longer than DAZ|Studio's been out in Beta.
Looks good. But there's no info as to whether it's cross-platform. Is it?
It's only for PC.
And because Hexagon is free I could not see any benefit purchasing this application, you can do the same with Hexagon.
I've owned Font to Mesh Express Converter for awhile, but I can't get it to work on Win 7 x64 :(
Yea, own this. Doesn't work right. I wanted to convert Woolbats to obj and when I select that font from the fonts list it keeps defaulting back to what ever the default is.
Woolbats?... Are those the really big moths that eat woolen underwear?
Try Blender. There a very simple font to obj method in there.
It's not free (or even cheap) but Photoshop does a fantastic job of tessellating extruded type. That's the program I use when I need to do things like that (usually for address numbers on houses and things of that nature)
While we're at it, if you have one specific set of letters or whatever that you want converted, you could always PM me with a link to the font, what you want it to say, and I could do an extrusion for you and upload to Dropbox.
Tickle torture time!
That link didn't work for me. Maybe they made changes to their website? Anyway, here's the url to the download page that did work for me:
http://www.wings3d.com/?page_id=84
trueSpace is free and can do this with ease...I paid and bought for trueSpace from SE all the way upto the final version before micro$oft destroyed it...