"Hershel Robinson" <her### [at] yahoocom> wrote in message
news:3c6bb80e@news.povray.org...
> I would like to model a column with words engraved or carved into or out
of
> (i.e. protruding from) the column.  I don't know how to create 3D letters
> which are curved to match the column, however.
>
> The hard way would be to use Chris Colefax's Bend include file.  Hard in
> terms of render time--I have more than one column with unique text.  I
would
> like to ask if anyone knows of an easier way to accomplish this.

    I don't think you can bend the individual letters in any easy way, but
there are ways to parse out the text string and rotate out each letter. Here
is the sample file I copied from somewhere...

background {
    color rgb 1
}

#declare Rotation = clock + 55;
#declare CText = "SOPHIE'S WORLD  SOPHIE'S WORLD  SOPHIE'S WORLD  "

camera {
 location <0, 0, -8>
 direction <0, 0, 1.5>
 look_at <0, 0, 0>
}

light_source {
 <-1, 1, -12>
 colour rgb <1.3, 1.3, 1.3>
}

#declare Letter = 1;


union {
 #while (Letter <= strlen (CText))
  text {
   ttf "c:\windows\fonts\courbd.ttf", substr (CText, Letter, 1), 0.1, 0
   translate <0, -0.5, -3>
            scale <0.55, 1.1, 1>
   rotate <0, -360 / strlen (CText) * Letter, 0>
   no_shadow
  }
  #declare Letter = Letter + 1;
 #end
 texture {
  pigment {
   colour rgb 0.9
  }
  finish {
   crand 0.01
  }
 }
 rotate <0, Rotation, 0>
 rotate <15, 0, 20>
}

Post a reply to this message