Hi all, I tried to post in the december post about textextrude/
textfield3d but it hasnt gone through.
I used the exact code provided there at one point, to no success. It
appears that in the current build, it is not possible to set a
different material for textextrude versus textfield3d.
Currently, I am using this code to create both:
protected function init():void
{
tf3d = makeFace(_text);
te = makeExtrusion(tf3d);
this.addChild(tf3d);
this.addChild(te);
trace("ExtrudedTextField::",tf3d,te);
}
protected function makeFace(str:String):TextField3D
{
VectorText.extractFont(_fontfile, [_font], true);
var tf3D:TextField3D = new TextField3D(_font,_init);
tf3D.text = str;
tf3D.material = this._mat;
tf3D.ownCanvas = true;
tf3D.pushfront = true;
return tf3D;
}
protected function makeExtrusion(tf3d:TextField3D):TextExtrude
{
var te:TextExtrude = new TextExtrude(tf3d,_init);
te.pushfront = false;
// te.alpha =.5;
te.material = this._emat;
te.ownCanvas = true;
return te;
}
This functionality is great and works well -- I'm impressed at how
easy it is to work with, but I only wish to be able to set a different
material for these two distinct pieces of extrusion.. Also, if I use
ShadingColorMaterial, it seems that the textfield3d receives no light
whatsoever and is rendered as black.
Please, and help in regards to this issue would be appreciated.
-Michael
