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This weeks freebie (18-Jul-2018) the letters

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  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,341
    Mustakettu85 said:
    Fisty said:
    Mustakettu85 said:

     

    I'm just not sure that the ancient paid-for piece of software linked above here would somehow magically provide perfect topology that wouldn't need any extra tools.

    I think it's doing a fairly good job. It generates tris but DS seems to handle them quite well.

     

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  • RuphussRuphuss Posts: 2,631

    why isnt this in the freebie forum?

  • ChoholeChohole Posts: 33,604
    Ruphuss said:

    why isnt this in the freebie forum?

    Maybe because it is about a product from the Daz 3d Store.   The freebie forum is for members to  "Share your self-created freebie here for everyone to enjoy."

  • MarkHMarkH Posts: 83
    BeeMKay said:

    It's less buggy with the 65 bit version out now. :)

    Yeah 64, 65. Whatever it takes.  wink

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,341
    MarkH said:
    BeeMKay said:

    It's less buggy with the 65 bit version out now. :)

    Yeah 64, 65. Whatever it takes.  wink

    65 is a bit better than 64... wink

  • BeeMKayBeeMKay Posts: 7,019
    edited July 2018
    Taoz said:
    MarkH said:
    BeeMKay said:

    It's less buggy with the 65 bit version out now. :)

    Yeah 64, 65. Whatever it takes.  wink

    65 is a bit better than 64... wink

    It has all sorts of secret functions, I tell ya! And it makes a kick-ass coffee, too! wink

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  • vwranglervwrangler Posts: 5,039
    LeatherGryphon said:
    grinch2901 said:
    Peter Wade said:

    This looks really good but I'm a bit puzzled by the description. It says "The whole Alphabet in 3D! You get 24 Letters (A-Z),..." I'm pretty sure in school they taught us there are 26 letters in the alphabet. Is this one of those things that is different in American English surprise

     

    Yes. Americans don't need the letter "F" because we never fail. Also, we don't need the letter "Z" because we never come last.  Or at least that what I assume they were thinking.  wink

    Writing in English and getting the number of letters in the English alphabet wrong is marginally less ignorant than the DMV worker who rejected a new driver's licence application because the applicant gave her previous address as in New Mexico and the DMV agent said with great pomposity, there ain't no state called "New" Mexico. frown (* sigh *)

    Heh. Almost as much fun as being told that you don't need to file a financial aid form because they only require it from US citizens, and people from New Mexico aren't citizens here. (Imagine how much more fun it must be to be from Puerto Rico!)

  • kyoto kidkyoto kid Posts: 42,367
    Taoz said:
    MarkH said:
    BeeMKay said:

    It's less buggy with the 65 bit version out now. :)

    Yeah 64, 65. Whatever it takes.  wink

    65 is a bit better than 64... wink

    ...OK, have to clean the screen after that one.
  • nonesuch00nonesuch00 Posts: 18,863

    New Mexico? It's easy to forgive ignorance or forgetfulness. Try dealing with willful misinterpretation of the rules and it's not so funny. I had recent dealings with a USA federal government worker and in my dealings with that worker, well, that need had the misfortune of encountering a USA federal government requirement that seemed to be written so vaguely that the person in charge of approving or denying a request might be tempted to follow their personal whim rather than the intent of the requirement, which is not really in their power to do so, and in following their whim they are willingly disobeyed a work requirement they are required to follow. That is not really a good situation given the matters that requirement was attempting to remedy and that I'm now in the position of taking the matter to the appropriate appeals process, an appeals process which was purposely done in a very lengthly and obtuse way to discourage enforcement of the rules, or ignoring the problem. I don't know if I'll spend time pursuing that matter further though I have good cause to do so.

  • Mustakettu85Mustakettu85 Posts: 2,933
    Taoz said:
    Mustakettu85 said:
    Fisty said:
    Mustakettu85 said:

     

    I'm just not sure that the ancient paid-for piece of software linked above here would somehow magically provide perfect topology that wouldn't need any extra tools.

    I think it's doing a fairly good job. It generates tris but DS seems to handle them quite well.

     

    Does this app have beveling? Because if it doesn't, you need to use subdivision in DS, and then tris pose a yet another issue.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,341
    Mustakettu85 said:
    Taoz said:
    Mustakettu85 said:
    Fisty said:
    Mustakettu85 said:

     

    I'm just not sure that the ancient paid-for piece of software linked above here would somehow magically provide perfect topology that wouldn't need any extra tools.

    I think it's doing a fairly good job. It generates tris but DS seems to handle them quite well.

     

    Does this app have beveling? Because if it doesn't, you need to use subdivision in DS, and then tris pose a yet another issue.

    No. I did try subdivision and that messed up the mesh. I'm not saying it's perfect but what it does it seems to do OK, and it's simple to use. I've just tried to run the output through Instant Meshes but no matter what I do it gets messed up one way or the other.

  • TaozTaoz Posts: 10,341
    edited July 2018

    This is made with Xara 3DMaker, it has a lot of options like many different types of beveling, kerning, tracking etc., and it seem to handle any font without distortions. Cons are not so good anti-aliasing, you can't turn off perspective, and you can't export the mesh, it can only create 2D images like this one. The mesh consist of quads and n-gons so it probably wouldn't work in DS anyway.

    I guess Blender is the way to go if you want high quality 3D text but I don't know how well it imports into DS.

     

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