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Subject: Need some help: is there an easy way to create realistic looking....


Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 3:47 AM · edited Sat, 02 November 2024 at 10:44 AM

Ok, some of you prolly seen my WIP on the forums, of 2 days back. I wanna add some religious writings to the walls. I tryed making some in wings, but all i get is those anoying little squares. Does any1 know if there is an easy way of creating text in bryce, or any other free program capable of doing so? i'd love 2 know. CZ


pogmahone ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 3:52 AM

Attached Link: http://www.zhanns-place.com/za/3dtextprint.html

Zhann has a good tutorial at above link. It shouldn't be a problem in Wings, though. Can you post a pic of the 'annoying little squares'?


Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 3:59 AM

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sure, here it is


draculaz ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:34 AM

that's probably not a truetype font? i don't know, did you try just Arial or whatever? those squares happen when the software doesn't understand the type (like if it's Chinese or whatever). Comic Sans is a pretty known font, Wings just might have problems with it. You could always make the text in Photoshop and then apply it to the wall mat. without hte need for making it 3d. Drac (nice limewire)


Zhann ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:36 AM

Yup, it's extremely easy to do 3d text in Bryce, you only need a paint program that will do black and white, and it's far easier than modeling them, AnD you can export them from Bryce into other formats cause you're using terrains or sym lattices....thanks pogmahone for the link...:)

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Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:39 AM

Thnx for those suggestions, i just got a diffrent type of letters, and imported an alien text into bryce, but when i make it negative, it doesnt seem to engrave itself into the wall (ofcrouse i linked them together, yada yada yada) I seem to have that problem with all imports from wings. Cant cut trough anything when their negative :S suggestions/hints/tips are welcome CZ


Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:41 AM

ok, i tryed making that tutorial of the mountain, but i keep having a floor, which i cant seem to remove by any means. CZ


pogmahone ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:47 AM

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hmnnnn....just tried that in Wings, and didn't have a problem. It's a bit of a pain in the arse to have to type in the font name, but it worked OK.


Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:52 AM

maybe just a bug. Ok, so i made that text in wings, exported/imported to bryce, made it negative, linked 2 positive wall...and now it doesnt show up. its neither carved in nor visible :o| CZ


draculaz ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:04 AM

i just tried it as well, doesn't work. really weird. just make the text in PS for crying out loud :P


Doublecrash ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:16 AM

There's also a beautiful small app to create text to import in Bryce, called Elefont. I don't have the link right now (I'm not at home) but you can do a search. It's free and intuitive at the max. S.


originalmoron ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:22 AM

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If you have imported some txt from a 3d prog,have you ungrouped the txt and made it negative and checked the "solid when bolean rendering"? You have to have the txt ungrouped to make every letter negative.

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draculaz ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:29 AM

i didn't notice it was grouped, maybe that's the problem.


LunarTick ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:49 AM · edited Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:54 AM

Attached Link: http://www.armanisoft.ch/webdesign/elefont/Elefont.html

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The font in the image is wingdings, the program i used is called Elefont, it saves the file in .dxf which can be imported into bryce, it uses what ever fonts you have on your computer. Its free and the link is where you get it from.

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Coltzero ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 5:58 AM

Originalmoron, i think that will do the trick! sorry 4 all the trouble, and thnx 4 all you guys explainations! I will ungroup the text and set it to solid when boolean rendering! I hope it'll work. Thnx!!!! CZ


pogmahone ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 7:02 AM · edited Sun, 31 October 2004 at 7:03 AM

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I tried importing the wings text, and had no trouble with it. Top 2 are boolean, text set to negative (slanted so you can see it really is negative) Next one down set to intersect with a cube Bottom one solid, as it imported

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danamo ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 1:09 PM

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Let me recommend Tommy's of Escondido as a terrific resource of SCI-FI alien-type fonts. They have TrueType font designs from almost every major Sci-Fi movie and Series you've ever heard of, and some you may not have. These are carefully researched so as to to be "cannonical" or authentic, and the best part is they are free!


pauljs75 ( ) posted Sun, 31 October 2004 at 4:36 PM

Try using the file search at the start menu and make sure that you have the exact filepath and filename for a given font. The directory might be a bit different depending on how the computer is set up. Also I couldn't really get any fonts to work with Wings on the Mac. (They're not the font type supported by Wings.) This is one of those things that needs to be fixed some time in the future.


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