Florian Fischer wrote:
> 
> > I was wondering how one would go about creating different text
> > effects in Moray (preferably) or PovRay.  Is a height field the way
> > to go, and if so how do you create it?
> 
> Well, a height field is one possibility. At least if you don't want to
> see the text from behind in the scene, as the back side cannot be
> smoothed using height fields.
> I'd create such a height field using a 2D graphics program (like Paint
> Shop Pro), using black background and adding the text in white (or
> light grey).
> 
> > It seems like it would be possible to create a
> > program that could add various grayscale gradients to the edge
> 
> You can do this by smoothing. If using PSP, just play around with the
> Gaussian Blur.
> 
> > or across the face of text to achieve preset or maybe even user
> > defined profiles.
> 
> You can make the face shaggy by adding a bit of noise to the picture.
> However, you should not add noise to the black background (unless you
> really want to).
> 
> > It would also be nice to have text follow a predefined path.
> 
> I'd like this too. But that should be supported by POV-Ray itself.
> 
> Florian Fischer

You could have a look here:
http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html

I was working on a new version that supported bevels and other stuff, but I lost
interest... 8(

Remco

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