How to make a 3D Text in blender?

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 12:40 pm

I'm very new to blender and I cant find a decent tutorial on how to do it so can someone point me to a good tutorial or just tell me how to do it please?

JPulham · Post by **JPulham** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 2:43 pm

right click->add->Text

in edit mode type your text
edit the font in 'editing' panel

press Alt+C -> Convert to curve
then Alt+C -> Convert to Mesh

edit : then extrude the faces

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Mon Aug 20, 2007 3:30 pm

Alt + C doesn't do anything.

JPulham · Post by **JPulham** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:05 pm

are you in Object mode or still in edit mode?

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 12:40 pm

It seems I was in edit mode, now I switched to Object mode then ALT+C twice (like you said). Now what should I do?

Edit: I see you wrote "then extrude the faces", well, how do I do that?

Perceval · Post by **Perceval** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 3:03 pm

In edit mode, select all vertices (by pressing "A"), then press "E".

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Tue Aug 21, 2007 4:16 pm

This is what I get, now what?
http://img74.imageshack.us/my.php?image ... essah3.jpg

Perceval · Post by **Perceval** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 7:55 am

I guess you have selected "extrude only vertices" instead of "extrude region"

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:00 am

Great! Thanks guys! Now I have another problem, I cant export it to any format, this is what I get what I try to export to 3DS:

Perceval · Post by **Perceval** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 11:06 am

I think you haven't download and install python.
http://www.python.org/download/
This is needed for a lot of script.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 12:11 pm

Thanks it works Great! Now maybe you can help me with one more little thing, is it possible to make the text vertical? Well, I'm trying to make a 3D Text like this (which was made in PhotoShop in a way it shouldn't be made..)

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 2:39 pm

Ho and how can I change the font?

Perceval · Post by **Perceval** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 3:44 pm

I think you can't write text vertically (but you can do it by playning with the return key

)
To change the font, select your text (right click on it), then in the editing tab (you can access it by pressing f9), there are some options for texts. You can load another font here.

MasterGod · Post by **MasterGod** » Wed Aug 22, 2007 4:59 pm

Cool, thanks.