Is there an Easy was to import fonts into Bryce. For example suppose I wanted to make a tombstone with the engraved letters, Yes I know I could do this via bump map but what about something maybe doing booleans with the letters or maybe a better example futuristic where a street sign was floating letters no post no metal plate just the letters floating in the air. However they would be true 3 Dimensional. Would you actually have to model each and every single letter with a modeling program or is there some way that I just do not know about to bring in some text and make it 3d easier than modeling them. Or is there a program out there somewhere that will model a set of fonts?

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Yes. This guys program will allow you to type out any font you have on your PC and export it as a .dxf file for import into Bryce. AgentSmith

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You can also use the terrain editor to make lattice letters.

Cool thanks AgentSmith that is perfect. Exactly what I am looking for and tried it out already works very nice. And best of all its free

His Spiralizer program is kinda fun too, but Elefont is just darned near necessary.

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I tried the lattice editor, elefont is much better.

I've always gotten good results by creating the text I want in photoshop or painter, 1024 x 1024, white on black.. anti-alias it and load it into the terrain editor. Works best with lattices. Never knew these other programs existed.

How about something for the Mac?

If you have CorelDraw, you can save files in DXF format, whether they be text or vector drawings. These are only 2-dimensional, but can be extruded to 3D in a program like Rhino or the like. Corel 7 had a program bundled with it to do just this, but was discontinued with the release of version 8. I don't know offhand whether the Mac version also had this file format as a Save option. By the way, that DXF option in Corel really works great for any CAD-type work. I do lots of architectural renderings that way, and by saving the CorelDraw file as DXF then extruding it in Rhino, it allows me to build full models direct from the blueprints, & check any building flaws that aren't apparent. But I digress...

I'm not sure about something similar for the mac, I'll look around.

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brycetech has a good tutorial on engraving a headstone

Here's an old image using the lattice to engrave the ring with the word Soulmate. If I do it again, I'll flatten the torus with boolean and use elefont.

Cool idea!

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On a Mac, here is a workaround though it's lengthy. In Illustrator or like drawing app, create your type or shapes. Create outlines from any type you used and finally, Save as a Illustrator 6 eps. Import the eps file into Strata3D (it's free from strata.com) Now it's called Strata3D Base, and I don't know if it still extrudes. Anyway, import the eps file into Strata, delete the excess clump of garbage (you'll see it) and use the extrude tool on your outlines. (there is also a lathe tool which is handy too). Save the extruded file as a .dxf and import that into Bryce. Tadaa! 3D type with only 15-30 minutes of work. Yeah, it's a pain, but it works. And it's free (if you have Illustrator).