Hexagon 3D Text Problem
biancahwright
Posts: 7
I'm trying to create a plaque in Hexagon and have a problem with the text tool. The typefaces come out all distorted and mangled. I'm attaching a picture of what happens. This is coming strait from the 3D Text Primitive tool and every font gets massacred like this. What am I doing wrong?
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Try upping the tesselation...that should control the number of faces for each letter. The more there are, the smoother the text will be.
Cranked the Tesselation to max and still get this bad result.
Make sure that there is no smoothing (Smoothing 0). I'm getting pretty decent results with a tesselation of 4.
Smoothing is off. No luck.
It just gets more facets on a wonky, mishapen letterform
Odd...lower tesselation, but otherwise the same.
Are other typefaces messed up, or only Arial?
If other typefaces are giving the same problems, you might try to find a TrueType version of any typeface and see if that works. Its possible the type format is the problem.
If memory serves, this is a bug that was introduced into one of the later revisions of the Macintosh version of Hexagon.
It was reported during beta testing, but was never addressed.
Since I am also using the Mac version, I have the same issue.
All the typefaces are severely distorted on my Mac. I'll have to report the issue myself, I guess. If enough of us do that they'll get to it.
If it is all the fonts, then yeah, it's the bug...be good to mention it again.
Also are all the fonts you tried TrueType fonts?
They are.
Just had someone else on a Mac do some tests. It seems to be that on a Mac all the fonts are problematic.
Indeed.
The Text Tool was working properly in the earlier versions of Hexagon.
As I recall, during the last round of updates (which fixed the horrible crashing problem on the Mac platform) the text tool functionality was broken while that version of Hexagon was still in the beta test phase. The problem was brought to the attention of the developers, but it was never fixed, and was released as is.
That was several years ago.
If I need 3D text, I'm forced to use Carrara's text modeler.
Blender can create 3D text...
Oh yessss... I love transparent and glassy effects, like in this Youtube tutorial... screen shot attached.