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From: Tyler Eaves
Subject: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 11:21:59
Message: <39c78497$1@news.povray.org>
Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?


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From: Tom Melly
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 12:15:25
Message: <39c7911d@news.povray.org>
"Tyler Eaves" <tyl### [at] tylereavescom> wrote in message
news:39c78497$1@news.povray.org...
> Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?
>

Pick a rounder font? Oh, you mean the front/edges/whatever... Hmm, well if
you use megapov, you could use trace to place blobs appropriately. I think
there have been some examples of this in binaries.images.

My entry in the ocean irtc (tmstormc) used a similiar approach to lay the
gold rim around the top of the cup.

You could also try creating an intersection of a blob and a letter, with the
blob wider but shallower than the letter (ie. the face of the letter should
stick up out of the blob, but be entirely surrounded by blob).


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From: Mike Williams
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 16:06:40
Message: <oY6BbLArm6x5EwxX@econym.demon.co.uk>
Wasn't it Tyler Eaves who wrote:
>Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?

Matthew Edd Tillman (mrh### [at] usanet) has produced a macro that
generates nice rounded text made from CSG bits of torus. If it's not on
his web site (http://www.bigfoot.com/~special_edd) you could try a web
search for "rchar.inc".

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Mike Williams
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From: Peter Popov
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 16:22:27
Message: <fgifsssu1eg70pb3gseba6rjhip6nm7mf8@4ax.com>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:21:50 -0400, "Tyler Eaves"
<tyl### [at] tylereavescom> wrote:

>Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?

If you're working under Windows, search the links on povray.org for a
program called Elefont, it is really great at doing bevels and
extrusions and such on fonts, real-time previews included.


Peter Popov ICQ : 15002700
Personal e-mail : pet### [at] usanet
TAG      e-mail : pet### [at] tagpovrayorg


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 16:49:16
Message: <slrn8sfi16.v54.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:21:50 -0400, Tyler Eaves wrote:
>Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?
>

Try SoftText at Rune's site, http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk it lets you
chose the text you want and then select the size and roundedness
IIRC,  it also has capabilities for wrapping text around objects
etc.  

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From: Chris Huff
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 16:54:25
Message: <chrishuff-D8A98E.15562719092000@news.povray.org>
In article <39c7911d@news.povray.org>, "Tom Melly" <tom### [at] tomandlucouk> 
wrote:

> Pick a rounder font? Oh, you mean the front/edges/whatever... Hmm, 
> well if you use megapov, you could use trace to place blobs 
> appropriately. I think there have been some examples of this in 
> binaries.images.

If you are talking about the macro I made, it didn't use trace(), it 
used the eval_pattern() function with the object pattern to put a bunch 
of blob components inside the text object.

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From: Ken
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 21:25:15
Message: <39C8114D.9CFB8862@pacbell.net>
Steve wrote:
> 
> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:21:50 -0400, Tyler Eaves wrote:
> >Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?
> >
> 
> Try SoftText at Rune's site, http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk it lets you
> chose the text you want and then select the size and roundedness
> IIRC,  it also has capabilities for wrapping text around objects
> etc.

ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!

SoftText is Remco De Korte's program and can be found instead at:

http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html

ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!

-- 
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http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: David
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 22:00:02
Message: <B5ED6877.23A4%davidmccabe@mac.com>
Hmm... I would try using height fields, in the same way as in "spiral".

> From: Ken <tyl### [at] pacbellnet>
> Organization: Tyler Engineering Services
> Reply-To: lin### [at] povrayorg
> Newsgroups: povray.newusers
> Date: Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:22:21 -0700
> Subject: Re: Text Question
> 
> 
> 
> Steve wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:21:50 -0400, Tyler Eaves wrote:
>>> Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?
>>> 
>> 
>> Try SoftText at Rune's site, http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk it lets you
>> chose the text you want and then select the size and roundedness
>> IIRC,  it also has capabilities for wrapping text around objects
>> etc.
> 
> ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!
> 
> SoftText is Remco De Korte's program and can be found instead at:
> 
> http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html
> 
> ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!
> 
> -- 
> Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
> http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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From: Steve
Subject: Re: Text Question
Date: 19 Sep 2000 22:15:53
Message: <slrn8sg5tu.9f.steve@zero-pps.localdomain>
On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 18:22:21 -0700, Ken wrote:
>
>
>Steve wrote:
>> 
>> On Tue, 19 Sep 2000 11:21:50 -0400, Tyler Eaves wrote:
>> >Is there any way to make Text objects be rounded instead of flat?
>> >
>> 
>> Try SoftText at Rune's site, http://rsj.mobilixnet.dk it lets you
>> chose the text you want and then select the size and roundedness
>> IIRC,  it also has capabilities for wrapping text around objects
>> etc.
>
>ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!
>
>SoftText is Remco De Korte's program and can be found instead at:

I knew it was three words, and the first one began with R.  

Sorry :-)

>
>http://www.xs4all.nl/~remcodek/softtext.html
>
>ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!! ALERT !!!
>
>-- 
>Ken Tyler - 1400+ POV-Ray, Graphics, 3D Rendering, and Raytracing Links:
>http://home.pacbell.net/tylereng/index.html http://www.povray.org/links/


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