Hence it was out with the graph paper and a couple of days spent refreshing my trigonometry to see what I could come up with. As Chrome is one of the most popular browsers at the moment, and single pixel lines on retina and other high resolution displays can barely be seen, I needed to sort something out quickly. I had been using my own line-based vector font library for a while, but Chrome version 57 onwards stopped supporting line widths greater than 1 pixel in WebGL on all platforms, regardless of the capabilities of the underlying graphics hardware. Whilst the typical approach to 3D text is to texture map font glyphs onto transparent flat surfaces, this is tricky to get looking good especially with large fonts or when you zoom in, and is not totally suited to the kinds of dynamic and animated model annotation I want to be doing. This library forms a core part of my tutorial scripting API and is used by the 3D model annotation library as well as several WebGL charts and graphs.

Set the size of the bevel along the edges. 3D Retro Text Creator 37 Photoshop actions Left and right facing extrusions Text remains editable after applying 3D effects All text styles are editable. Also, automated unit tests can’t really give the same qualitative feedback as actually seeing what different blocks of text look like as various metrics are dynamically adjusted. Set the depth of the geometry: how thick the letters are from front to back. I wrote this because I really needed to see and experiment with various font shapes, and to thoroughly stress test and optimise the code. If you are keen, you can also enter your own text and export the resulting geometry as an OBJ, STL or PLY file. Use the sliders and controls in the top-left of the app to interactively change settings.

You can dynamically adjust various font parameters including different shapes, spacings and extrusions. This app is both a comprehensive test framework for my new triangulated 3D font library and an interactive designer that lets you visually customise text to your specific requirements.

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