Hi Bob:

While I have greater aspirations for POV-Ray than eye-candy typography
(Hey... I LIKE candy!), my most immediate need is to produce gooey, shiney,
sparkling, fancy and eye-catching titles and logos for web graphics.

Crude starting example at:  http://member.aol.com/ideatoys/logos.htm

Sure, there are plenty of $10 programs out the which bevel, level and
dishevel fonts, then coat, color and wet them down.    I want to do ALL
those naughty things to letters, and then some-- I just want to do it under
programmatic control.

If I can do the grunt work in Moray or somesuch, fine--  so long as I can
change the text string, color, size, etc., using a parameter file.

I'll study the link you kindly provided.  My choice at this point, however,
because of the vast number available, would be to use TrueType fonts as
starting points.

Any thoughts?

Thanks,

Matt


Bob Hughes wrote in message <379e51db@news.povray.org>...
>There are ways to do these things. Do you mean as actual features
>internal to POV-Ray or as scripted in a file? Take a look at this URL
>here if you haven't already.
>
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html
>
>
>Matt Swarm wrote:
>>
>> Can't seem to find much on working with text as graphic objects.  The POV
>> package has an example which, blissfully, uses True Type fonts.
>>
>> In addition to color and texture, I would like to bevel, round the face,
>> illuminate from inside, wrap the line of text around a sphere or cylinder
>> (inside or out) and the like.
>>
>> Any thoughts?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Matt
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