Dave Jerrard | Text In Modeler 11.5 @DaveJerrard | Uploaded 10 years ago | Updated 1 hour ago
Trying to get some titles done in LightWave. Should be easy, right?
Nope.
First hurdle: Can't load the font that's needed. The Text tool is only about twenty years old now, added when Postscript Type 2 fonts were all the rage. Then along came TrueType, and since then a few others. I couldn't find the font I needed. Nor could I find any options for italics, weights, or styles. Well, um, NOTEPAD has better font support.
So, to get the font I needed, I had to type everything out in Photoshop. Then create a path from that text. Save that path, then export that as an Adobe Illustrator file. Then import that into Modeler, and since that came in as only an outline (or, in the case of a spline, something useless, and I tried every import mode, so don't go saying I don't know how to use it), I had to drill that onto a polygon to create faces that I could work with.
And no, the troubles didn't end there.
Forgive the shakiness in some spots. My arm was getting a bit sore, and I've had no luck with screen capture software since I switch between computers a lot, and one doesn't have audio.
Did I mentioned this font support has been around for about twenty years?
Trying to get some titles done in LightWave. Should be easy, right?
Nope.
First hurdle: Can't load the font that's needed. The Text tool is only about twenty years old now, added when Postscript Type 2 fonts were all the rage. Then along came TrueType, and since then a few others. I couldn't find the font I needed. Nor could I find any options for italics, weights, or styles. Well, um, NOTEPAD has better font support.
So, to get the font I needed, I had to type everything out in Photoshop. Then create a path from that text. Save that path, then export that as an Adobe Illustrator file. Then import that into Modeler, and since that came in as only an outline (or, in the case of a spline, something useless, and I tried every import mode, so don't go saying I don't know how to use it), I had to drill that onto a polygon to create faces that I could work with.
And no, the troubles didn't end there.
Forgive the shakiness in some spots. My arm was getting a bit sore, and I've had no luck with screen capture software since I switch between computers a lot, and one doesn't have audio.
Did I mentioned this font support has been around for about twenty years?
