TTF -> 3D Mesh

clive

Hi all,

Just a random question since google's not being very helpful this morning.
Does anyone know of any tool that'll allow me to generate 3D meshes from a font?

Ideally something that can take a long list of required strings, with the TTF and produce an equivalent long list of resulting meshes but anything closer to that goal would be appreciated. Could be a free or to-purchase tool since I'm going to need to do this a lot. I'm almost at the point of writing something myself to do this but would rather save the time and re-use something that already exists if/where possible.

Thanks,
Clive

quintond

Could you not use Blender and the scripting tool to load the text in the desired font and then extrude it in Blender and then export your mesh.

I am not a Blender guru, but with the scripting language in Blender this should be possible ... not sure if the time invested in this would be less than the time writing your own.

Sorry I can't be of more help, I am not aware of any tool like that. 8-{

clive

In case anyone else stumbles across this with a similar need.

I ended up purchasing a Unity Asset (editor extension) which transforms text + font-selection into a mesh (gamebobject) which I can then export and tweak if need be. It's working out really well in fact since it's also scriptable and comes with it's full source code.

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/3627

quintond

Wow ... cool. 8-}

Thanks for that ... very useful.