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am after a crude type marker-pen word font effect for a classroom whiteboard?

DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460
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I'm doing a setting where a person in front of a class is using a black marker pen on a whiteboard behind them so as you'd imagine the writing would come off as looking a little more crude than normal text which is perfectly alingned and positioned and such. How could I do this? I know how to get a whiteboard prop onto a wall but I just don't know what to do for the marker pen effect words like if I was just to type out something on a normal note pad and copy and paste the image of the words into my Daz scene whiteboard it would just not look right at all. Any ideas?

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  • GordigGordig Posts: 10,601

    You could use a drawing app on a phone or tablet, like ProCreate, write the text by hand, then save it to use as a texture map in DS. If you have the necessary tools, of course.

  • DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460

    Gordig said:

    You could use a drawing app on a phone or tablet, like ProCreate, write the text by hand, then save it to use as a texture map in DS. If you have the necessary tools, of course.

    good suggestion but no I don't :(

  • marblemarble Posts: 7,500
    edited August 2022

    Drekkan said:

    Gordig said:

    You could use a drawing app on a phone or tablet, like ProCreate, write the text by hand, then save it to use as a texture map in DS. If you have the necessary tools, of course.

    good suggestion but no I don't :(

    I should think that any drawing or photo editor would do the job. I often just create a plane and put text on it and then use that in the Base Color (Diffuse) surface slot. I use Affinity Photo but something like Gimp or Krita would do just as well (both are free).

    Post edited by marble on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    If you have a scanner in your printer (if you have a printer), take a clean sheet of white paper and a sharpie, write whatever you want on it, scan it and open up the image in whatever image editor you have, desaturated the image and increase the contrast until the lettering is as black as it can be and the white as white as can be, save that as a separate layer and then delete all the white leaving only the layer with the black handwriting... then bring that layer over into the whiteboard's UV map, size or adjust, etc and flatten the image.

    I used the method Gordig described to create the map for my whiteboard model (below), but if you don't have a tablet or smartphone, that's something else... if you do though, there are lots of apps that would allow you to do this... Sketchbook by Autodesk is free and available for Android and iOS, and works great for this particular task.

  • DrekkanDrekkan Posts: 460

    McGyver said:

    If you have a scanner in your printer (if you have a printer), take a clean sheet of white paper and a sharpie, write whatever you want on it, scan it and open up the image in whatever image editor you have, desaturated the image and increase the contrast until the lettering is as black as it can be and the white as white as can be, save that as a separate layer and then delete all the white leaving only the layer with the black handwriting... then bring that layer over into the whiteboard's UV map, size or adjust, etc and flatten the image.

    I used the method Gordig described to create the map for my whiteboard model (below), but if you don't have a tablet or smartphone, that's something else... if you do though, there are lots of apps that would allow you to do this... Sketchbook by Autodesk is free and available for Android and iOS, and works great for this particular task.

    No printer or scanner sorry.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Drekkan said:

    No printer or scanner sorry.

    Well then... I could write it out for you and make it into a PNG transparent layer... you'd need an image editor to put them on the whiteboard's UV map though... 

    You'd also have to tell me what you want written, or take a photo of it written out on a sheet of paper if it's like math equations or something with symbols like that... also it would be in my crappy handwriting, which is a definite minus, but that's like a final option unless you find a decent handwritten style font... There are some good free handwritten fonts on Fontspace... but most of the good ones are non-commercial use.

    I'm going to sleep soon, it's 1:30 AM here, so you'll have to wait until tomorrow if you want me to make a PNG.

  • lilweeplilweep Posts: 2,746
    edited August 2022

    Drekkan said:

    No printer or scanner sorry.

    dude just take a photo or use your mouse

    McGyver said:

     save that as a separate layer and then delete all the white leaving only the layer with the black handwriting... then bring that layer over into the whiteboard's UV map, size or adjust, etc and flatten the image.

    You can just save the image with the Text as a White background. Daz has that inbuilt image editor - the Layered Image Editor.  So can overlay the new image using multiplicative blend in Layered Image Editor, assuming the Whiteboard UV's are appropriate.

    The Iray Decal nodes are also good for projecting images onto surfaces regardless of their UVs.  I guess you could also use a plane primitive too since the surface is planar.

    Post edited by lilweep on
  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,483

    ~  and then   ~     also , hand writing fonts   _   Thanx 

  • FirstBastionFirstBastion Posts: 8,049

    you might be able to find something and the font sites  like  https://www.fontsquirrel.com/fonts/list/find_fonts?q[term]=written&q[search_check]=Y

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited August 2022

    Since the OP didn't respond and was presumably eaten by a pack of rouge dachshunds, I'm leaving this here...

    This is not a typeable font, it's a transparent layer you'd use in an image editor to cut out and paste together what you need written...

    Its 100% for commercial use... 


     

    The transparency layer contains the above letters and symbols and other crap as well as some smudges...

    Also included are a bunch of commonly used words to speed up hand lettering.

    Use the Zip file below to get the lettering on a transparent layer

    ​Or don't, it's pretty stupid, but it didn't take more than a few minutes to do using my iPad. 

    zip
    zip
    Whiteboard Lettering-0001.zip
    1M
    Post edited by McGyver on
  • Charlie JudgeCharlie Judge Posts: 13,257

    Would any of these work for you?

    https://www.fontspace.com/category/chalkboard

  • Senor_MonkeySenor_Monkey Posts: 127

    McGyver said:

    Since the OP didn't respond and was presumably eaten by a pack of rouge dachshunds, I'm leaving this here...

    This is not a typeable font, it's a transparent layer you'd use in an image editor to cut out and paste together what you need written...

    Its 100% for commercial use... 


     

    The transparency layer contains the above letters and symbols and other crap as well as some smudges...

    Also included are a bunch of commonly used words to speed up hand lettering.

    Use the Zip file below to get the lettering on a transparent layer

    ​Or don't, it's pretty stupid, but it didn't take more than a few minutes to do using my iPad. 

    Rogue Dachshunds? Have you played The Lost Dachshund on Steam? A really nice little freebie.

    Back on point, I've used your method  for the writing a couple of times, using Paint.net (another freebie). The only difference was that I first Greyscale the image, and then posterize down to the minimum, getting rid of all etra data, and making those whites whiter than white. 

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited August 2022

    Here's a chalkboard version too... same thing as before just made using a "chalk" brush to write with.

    It was made for a menu board, so that's why there are so many food related words like "soup", "fried" and "organic pigeon beaks"

    Again, its 100% for Commercial use, no non-commercail or editorial use nonsense.

    Also... it sucks, so it is what it is... 

    Use the PNG in the zip file, not the above JPIG...

    zip
    zip
    Chalkboard Writing-0001.zip
    3M
    Post edited by McGyver on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Charlie Judge said:

    Would any of these work for you?

    https://www.fontspace.com/category/chalkboard

    Oops... I didn't see you post that because I still had my previous post window open when I added the new one.

  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085

    Senor_Monkey said:
    Rogue Dachshunds? Have you played The Lost Dachshund on Steam? A really nice little freebie.


    Back on point, I've used your method  for the writing a couple of times, using Paint.net (another freebie). The only difference was that I first Greyscale the image, and then posterize down to the minimum, getting rid of all etra data, and making those whites whiter than white. 
     

    Lost dachshund...?   That's sounds intriguing... Dachshunds are the most deadly of all jungle creatures, so it should be quite amusing.

    Thats a great tip about running the scan through a filter, I never thought to do that in photoshop... Filter Forge has a couple of "sketch" filters which I used a couple of times to refine scanned drawing or sketches until I got a newer iPad that supported the Apple Pencil, but that's definitely a great tip.

  • 3dLux3dLux Posts: 1,231
    edited August 2022

    Additional whiteboard fonts:

    https://www.dafont.com/dry-whiteboard-marker.font

    https://www.fontspace.com/category/whiteboard

    Post edited by 3dLux on
  • hacsarthacsart Posts: 2,034
    edited August 2022

     Ah, not to derail this thread:

    Bur a jungle dachschund is nothing compared to the Greater Mountain Daschsalope we get out here. Not even a bull moose or a grizz will stand up to this felll beast.  There was a Lesser Spotted Mountain Daschsalope, but well, the Greater Mountain Daschsalope had other ideas. Even the local Indigenous First Nation people feared this even more than the wendigo.

     

     

    Lost dachshund...?   That's sounds intriguing... Dachshunds are the most deadly of all jungle creatures, so it should be quite amusing.

     

    dog_8_daschalope_1.jpg
    1680 x 1050 - 1M
    Post edited by hacsart on
  • McGyverMcGyver Posts: 7,085
    edited August 2022

    That's a truly frightening beast... I will have nightmares about it tonight... between the ones about the dancing pork chops and that erotic cactus one.

    Post edited by McGyver on
  • ed3Ded3D Posts: 2,483

    And then ~  Googl Fonts has Hand-Writeing fonts  over 200 

    thanks 

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