The following workflow is popular with those in chat including motion graphic artists and those that work with text regularly.
Popular fonts with good results: Bebas and Bebas Neue (Bebas recomended by blenderguru.com, there are other popular ones also) http://www.dafont.com/bebas.font http://www.dafont.com/bebas-neue.font (Recomended by Olson and others in #blender) Object Mode: Object>Convert to>Mesh... (font is not editable as text anymore) Edit Mode: Mesh>Vertices>Remove Doubles Mesh>Delete>Limited Dissolve Another methods used with varying cost benefits: Retopo over an existing font>mesh Modeling from scratch if limited letters are needed (there are some good tutorials on this) Remesh Object Modifier at a low threshold (as already mentioned) Some references: http://wiki.blender.org/index.php/Doc:2.6/Manual/Modeling/Texts http://www.blenderguru.com/videos/how-to-make-metallic-text/ http://www.blenderartist.org/forum/showthread.php?295010-Blender-text-conversion-improvements-wishlist Some of us that work with fonts and code have been kicking around in chat the idea of optimizing this in code or optimizing the retopo/remesh tools to deal with fonts better, but todo lists are so long already it may be a while before someone gets to it. JTa ________________________________ From: Sergey Sharybin <[email protected]> To: bf-blender developers <[email protected]> Sent: Thursday, August 1, 2013 12:38 AM Subject: Re: [Bf-committers] Clean convert text to mesh HI, Currently no actual plans to improve conversion operator itself, so if someone volunteers to look into improvement -- be welcome :) What you might want to try is to use Remesh modifier on a font object after you've converted it to mesh. It'll give you much nicer topology. On Wed, Jul 31, 2013 at 11:32 PM, Blender Attitude < [email protected]> wrote: > Hi dream team, > > Is there a plan to improve the text to mesh conversion algorythm, to get a > nice quad topology ? Or is there a simple method or add-on ? > > Thank you all. > > Best wishes, > Romuald from Blender Attitude Magazine (fr) > _______________________________________________ > Bf-committers mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers > -- With best regards, Sergey Sharybin _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers _______________________________________________ Bf-committers mailing list [email protected] http://lists.blender.org/mailman/listinfo/bf-committers
