POV-Ray : Newsgroups : povray.advanced-users : Beveled text attempt : Re: Beveled text attempt Server Time
29 Jul 2024 20:28:14 EDT (-0400)
  Re: Beveled text attempt  
From: Chris Huff
Date: 16 Dec 2000 16:08:57
Message: <chrishuff-9E96F6.16095916122000@news.povray.org>
In article <3a3bb953$1@news.povray.org>, "Dave Blandston" 
<gra### [at] earthlinknet> wrote:

> I've been trying to use the matrix keyword to make beveled text, without
> much luck. Although I did get some nice italic text. Has anyone ever made
> beveled text before?

You can not make beveled text with the matrix keyword alone, the closest 
you can get is shearing (slanting) it. However, you might try an 
intersection of several text objects, each sheared in a different 
direction. I'll try to work up a useful macro for this.

-- 
Christopher James Huff
Personal: chr### [at] maccom, http://homepage.mac.com/chrishuff/
TAG: chr### [at] tagpovrayorg, http://tag.povray.org/

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