> Hi there,
>
> Since I started using POV-Ray quite some time ago I always wanted to use more
> interesting fonts. I was very excited when support was added for True Type fonts
> but I still wanted to be able to add borders and bevels to the fonts. Therefore
> I have made a simple Arial font that has borders. If I had planned ahead better
> I see now that I could have added the ability to make various types of bevels as
> well. Maybe I'll re-do the characters someday with that capability. For now,
> though, there are still many interesting variations that can be made with the
> bordered characters. I will post some example pictures below. If anyone is
> interested I will post the source code as well.
>
> The picture attached to this post is a bumper sticker design. The background and
> characters required separate lighting so the characters were set to "no_image"
> while the background was rendered, then the characters were rendered with a
> transparent background.
>

Or, you could have rendered in a single pass using 2 light_group.
One for the background and one for the characters with no_shadow set.

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