I tried to Import Fonts I created in Lightwave They Look Horrible.

Can you make an image with the fonts' characters' message, then apply that ?

I've done such in eg _free _Irfan View, using 'fun' TTF I got from wwweb...

Also, use such image in gray-scale as a bump / displacement map to emboss inscription ?

The closest would be to use Create Text Prop in the Object menu to, er, create some text which Poser will see as a prop item. You only get the choice of 3 fonts, but you can assign materials, make them visible for rendering or export these items. They are flat 2d objects though and there is no way to extrude them to 3d in Poser (that I know of).

Reading up on Lightwave it should just be a case of making the lettering into a full 3d mesh and exporting as OBJ or FBX to get it into Poser.

It's pancake-flat 2D fonts only, by using Create Text Prop, unless the final Poser 12 has something in it. So far as I know they can't be extruded and bevelled in Poser.

I've no idea why your Lightwave fonts look bad in Poser. But there are free 3D wordmaker utilities still working, that were made by Poser and Bryce people. Have a look at Elefont, and then PoseRay is your converter to obj for Poser.

I'm guessing that what you want to do is import extruded text into Poser. That will require modeling software which can extrude the text as a 3D mesh. I often use Elefont to extrude text; it's free and easy to use. It exports the mesh as DXF, so you'll need a modeler which can import that format, because I generally find that are orphaned vertices and occasional poly issues which need to be tidied up. Export the tidied-up mesh from your modeler as OBJ, and import that into Poser.

The rooftop neon signage is Harlow font, extruded from Elefont, cleaned up in Silo, imported into Poser, and here 'tis:

seachnasaigh posted at 7:56AM Sun, 03 January 2021 - #4409286

I'm guessing that what you want to do is import extruded text into Poser. That will require modeling software which can extrude the text as a 3D mesh. I often use Elefont to extrude text; it's free and easy to use. It exports the mesh as DXF, so you'll need a modeler which can import that format, because I generally find that are orphaned vertices and occasional poly issues which need to be tidied up. Export the tidied-up mesh from your modeler as OBJ, and import that into Poser.

The rooftop neon signage is Harlow font, extruded from Elefont, cleaned up in Silo, imported into Poser, and here 'tis:

That's interesting, but the only Elefont I've font (sorry: found) starts at 189$/month

Y-Phil posted at 11:24PM Mon, 04 January 2021 - #4409290

That's interesting, but the only Elefont I've font (sorry: found) starts at 189$/month

It's been several years since I got Elefont, but I see it at elefont.softwareandgames.com and the description says "Elefont is a simple, free graphic tool to create 3D images from TTF fonts (ELEvated-FONTSs). These images are generated in DXF files that you can import, for example, to BRYCE rendering software, being created to make attractive images, from images, that can be combined with text. Thus the user can use Elefont to create text in scales from TTF fonts and transfer them to CAD systems. Some users work with it and combine it with Lightwave because this program is much more effective than the text plug-in included in Lightwave."

Note that it says free. I've never dealt with this softwareandgames site, so I can't offer any judgement about them.

Did you have some other software in mind?

Elefont 1.4 is also at the DAZ Bryce Brycemania . de site. Completely free Windows freeware.

seachnasaigh posted at 2:46AM Tue, 05 January 2021 - #4409446

Y-Phil posted at 11:24PM Mon, 04 January 2021 - #4409290

That's interesting, but the only Elefont I've font (sorry: found) starts at 189$/month

It's been several years since I got Elefont, but I see it at elefont.softwareandgames.com and the description says "Elefont is a simple, free graphic tool to create 3D images from TTF fonts (ELEvated-FONTSs). These images are generated in DXF files that you can import, for example, to BRYCE rendering software, being created to make attractive images, from images, that can be combined with text. Thus the user can use Elefont to create text in scales from TTF fonts and transfer them to CAD systems. Some users work with it and combine it with Lightwave because this program is much more effective than the text plug-in included in Lightwave."

Note that it says free. I've never dealt with this softwareandgames site, so I can't offer any judgement about them.

Did you have some other software in mind?

Precisely, I was interested in a free or at least reasonably priced solution, as from time to time, I'd like to use fonts. When I googled for "elefont", I stumbled upon elefont.info, with the prices I gave. And when I jump over the website you referenced, my anti-virus stops me, with this information: "This web page appears in the list of questionable or potentially unwanted websites and has been blocked."

HartyBart posted at 2:53AM Tue, 05 January 2021 - #4409447

Elefont 1.4 is also at the DAZ Bryce Brycemania . de site. Completely free Windows freeware.

Thank you for the reference, I'll visit that page later

The simplest and most complete way I know to create 3D text is Blender.

From the layout in Object mode: "Add Text". And then follows hours of playing around with the 1000 possibilities :)

adp001 posted at 9:10AM Tue, 05 January 2021 - #4409469

The simplest and most complete way I know to create 3D text is Blender.

From the layout in Object mode: "Add Text". And then follows hours of playing around with the 1000 possibilities :)

Ok, now I have to follow a tutorial to understand what I've done... lol

The way that I have done this in the past is. Drop the font file (ttf) that I want to use into the font file folder within the main poser app runtime Create a new empty poser document. Use create text from within the object menu to write 2D text I want, choosing the font that I dropped into the font file folder. (It should show up in the font dropdown menu.) Save the 2D text out as a wavefront object file. Import the Wavefront object into a 3D modelling app. (I use wings3D for stuff like this.) You can then extrude this 2D text into a 3D object. Export out from 3D app, import new 3d object back into Poser. You now have a 3D text object that you can morph and manipulate to your hearts content.

cedub53 posted at 7:34PM Tue, 05 January 2021 - #4409499

The way that I have done this in the past is. Drop the font file (ttf) that I want to use into the font file folder within the main poser app runtime Create a new empty poser document. Use create text from within the object menu to write 2D text I want, choosing the font that I dropped into the font file folder. (It should show up in the font dropdown menu.) Save the 2D text out as a wavefront object file. Import the Wavefront object into a 3D modelling app. (I use wings3D for stuff like this.) You can then extrude this 2D text into a 3D object. Export out from 3D app, import new 3d object back into Poser. You now have a 3D text object that you can morph and manipulate to your hearts content.

Sure.

Why simple, when you can also have it complicated... ;)

Well it works for me, takes a few minutes and the final 3d text object looks exactly as expected.

Wouldn't it be Simpler to create fonts in Modeler, and export it as an OBJ then load it to Poser? But it don't work got too many extras polygons. But it does work using Cedub53 way. My problem then is with my Modeler 11.6

I'm on a mac you can do this with Cheetah3D, and it works. Also with Cheetah3D you can do a lot more manipulation to the shape of the text. (Although you can do a lot with Posers magnets, Waves and Morphs.) I was just trying to show a way of doing it without having to purchase additional software. (I don't own modeller, so I can't comment.)

Thanks cedub53. Cheetah3D not available for Vindowz 10

Cheetah3D is nice. But Blender is even better. Blender is available for Windows, Mac, Linux. Just download it and get happy :)

And most important: A very big userbase with tons of videos and documentation to get you started.

I tried Blender in the past, but I guess I'm too old to wrap my head around it. ;-)

So I'm stuck with Wings3d for my modelling needs.

Anyway, making a script in Wings is easy. Just right click, then select the "Text" entry. Browse to the location of the exact font you want to use and type the word you want to create. The default settings work with most fonts.

Wings will create the object file for you. Then export it as an .obj and import into Poser.

JoePublic posted at 3:27PM Thu, 07 January 2021 - #4409643

I tried Blender in the past, but I guess I'm too old to wrap my head around it. ;-)

Well.. I've made a test with Blender, and, iI swear t, I've never used it before, but i manage to do something, you can do it to I love the result in blue

Well I've played with caisson idea. I copied my favorite fonts to runtime/fonts. Picked up on of them, created my text. Saved it as .obj then extrude it in lightwave, from there export it as Colada into Poser. A bunch of steps but it's working for me.