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Hexagon 3D Text Problem

biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7
in Hexagon Discussion

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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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Try upping the tesselation...that should control the number of faces for each letter.  The more there are, the smoother the text will be.

  • biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7

    Cranked the Tesselation to max and still get this bad result. 

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Make sure that there is no smoothing (Smoothing 0).  I'm getting pretty decent results with a tesselation of 4.

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  • biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7

    Smoothing is off. No luck.

  • biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7
    edited December 2016

    It just gets more facets on a wonky, mishapen letterform

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  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Odd...lower tesselation, but otherwise the same.

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  • cdordonicdordoni Posts: 583
    edited December 2016
    biancahwright said:

    It just gets more facets on a wonky, mishapen letterform

    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.

     

     

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  • de3ande3an Posts: 915

    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.

  • biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7

    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.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    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?

     

  • biancahwrightbiancahwright Posts: 7

    They are.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001
    biancahwright said:

    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. 

  • de3ande3an Posts: 915
    mjc1016 said:

    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.

  • mjc1016mjc1016 Posts: 15,001

    Blender can create 3D text...

  • Roman_K2Roman_K2 Posts: 1,229
    mjc1016 said:

    Blender can create 3D text...

    Oh yessss... I love transparent and glassy effects, like in this Youtube tutorial... screen shot attached.

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