3D text is created and saved out as a mesh. You type in text, choose a font from your PC, choose a bevel type from a list of about a dozen, get a real-time preview.

It’s a simple 3D text maker used by Bryce users. Thankfully had saved Elefont 1.4 and also mfc42.zip. Update: the files page is there at October 2021 but these particular. I ran Elefont fine from Windows 8 without the DLL. It’s not pretty, but it still does the job.īrycemania still has Elefont 1.4 in its freeware offerings for public download, along with a mfc42.dll some users of older Windows OS’s may need to run it. Nope, you’re going to dig up Armin Muller’s kewl bit of Windows freeware that’s dedicated to just this one task. Or Blender, which would be like using an atom bomb to swat a fly. But the resulting text is a flat mesh and cannot be extruded or “fattened up” into full 3D.Īre you then going to load up DAZ Hexagon or Photoshop, just to do make some fat extruded 3D lettering? Or wrestle with SketchUp (which generally hates OBJs, without a lot more wrestling). Poser 11 has a basic “type text, turn it into a 3D mesh” tool, built in, for easy labelling of 3D diagrams, cutaways and suchlike. But most such freeware has gone the way of… poor Michael and his chimp. Actually I’m fairly sure I once saw Michael Jackson’s pet chimp in a 1980s pop video, and it was coding a ‘3D spinning text’ app on an Amiga 6000. Freeware that makes 3D extruded text as a mesh? Back in the day, everyone was doing it.

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