Questions tagged [text-object]
Questions related to creating and manipulating Blender Text objects. Text objects are useful for quickly creating 3D text by typing on the keyboard.
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Letter shadow and letter alignment problem
I got a job and I need to add shadow to the text as in the image. But there are two problems here:
1- The middle of the shadow is very dark, while the rest of it is darker. How can I set this? I want ...
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Mesh boolean in Geometry Nodes is slow, any alternatives or workarounds available?
I wanted some basic boolean operations for a few title animations. Here's one where I use a pie animation to reveal the text underneath
But using Mesh boolean makes the scene lag so much.
Is there a ...
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Get "number of lines in a string" as a value in Geometry Nodes
I have this node setup that takes a string and divides them into lines by using the special characters node to replace space " " with a line break.
I wanted a numerical value of the number ...
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Bend extruded text
New try (10/24, 3PM):
Hello! I set both the shape and curve origins to the World Origin (0,0), but I'm not sure if that's the right spot for both. When I try to animate the 'Follow Path' constraint, ...
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Is there a way to get the character lengths of each word of a string in Geometry Nodes
I want the character length of each word of a string. Is this possible procedurally?
My idea was to divide them into lines, but I can't get to separate the lines into individual strings.
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How do I move individual words in a string in Geometry Nodes
In the above image, how can I move individual words (not letters) in a string.
For example, I only want to move the word "DISPLAY" up and down, how can I do that?
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Curved text is not perpendicular to the curve
I made text that is curved according to a curve using Curve modifier placed on the text. For some reason, individual letters of the text are not perpendicular to the curve (as I would expect) but are ...
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How would I insert a certain text on my object
I’m creating a ds lite model and asked my self how I could insert the text on the back (picture 1) on my model?
Would I just retype the text and try to search a similar font or is there a easier way ...
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Geometry Nodes: Fonts with Overlapping Shapes Problem
Fonts with overlapping shapes are broken, the intersection becomes a hole, how can I fill these?
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Random spikes with the Antique Roman font [duplicate]
So I noticed a very niche problem when using an Antique Roman font that causes random spike to jut out of letters when using a round bevel of any depth. Is there any way to get around this (I'm trying ...
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Having trouble with engraving cursive text, where only a couple letters are being removed. How do you think I can fix this?
Let me preface this by saying that I'm still very new to Blender, so I don't know all the tricks and terms.
So I am following along with this YouTube tutorial to engrave text in a mesh in my model. I ...
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How can I set the Z axis rotation of a text to face a face which is I selected?
As a dice builder, I want to set Z rotation axis of the text which you see in the image to the face which I selected. But how ?
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Lines in Noise texture
I am trying to add a noise texture to my letters to make them have a partially emissive texture that I can then move throughout the animation over the letters. However the noise texture is barely ...
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How to fix inconsistent rendering results caused by adding frame animation to character spacing?
After I ended the character spacing frame animation, the text seemed to render differently.
The first image I added shows the rendering before the end of the "character spacing" animation, ...
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How to make sharp edge bevel 3d text [duplicate]
I want to know how to make the 3d text like this reference image.
Like how to bevel the text like a curved triangle foom the middle of the letter. (don't know to describe it exactly).
Thanks!
I also ...
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Using Bravura Font symbols (Music symbols, Unicode)
I am trying to display an eighth note in Blender as text using the free Bravura "SMuFL" font. This is what I do:
I drag-open a new window in Blender
I change that window to "Text ...
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can't find the option to international fonts
i use files with other languages than English, i used to check international fonts option to let blender display them correctly, now i can't find the option or any documentation about it, any help is ...
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Merge Text with object
Is it posible to merge a text with a object?
when i select both of them and then Object > join its not working.
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Recreate Doors of Durin's text in 3d but fonts are messed up [closed]
I'm working on a personal project in 3d. And I wanted to recreate in 3d, the text we can see on the Doors of Durin.
I use the original text in Sindarin "Ennyn Durin aran Moria pedo mellon a minno&...
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How to change text in animation for multiple objects in a Python loop
I have about 300 text objects, of which the texts need to change during the animation (numbers in a graph). I came across this Python method using applicatoin handlers: Keyframe on text body in Python?...
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How do I animate text [duplicate]
I need to animate text for a project I am making. By text, I mean the kind you get in the Shift-A menu.
Example:
will turn into
after some number of frames.
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How do you add a color to this animated text in node editor v3.4.1
Value > Value to String > String to Curves > Fill Curves > Transform > both Extrude Mesh and Flip Faces > Join Geometry > Group output
But where do I add a color to this text?
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Weird text protrusions
I have this weird text issue it happens randomly where some text objects will stretch out endlessly from one point of the text. The text has not been converted to mesh or anything they are just ...
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Duplicate Text not entering collection
In the image below, there a text selected in the 3d-window "deudoni". The text is parented to the mesh (box) it's in front of. Each box has its own text on it. Each box is in its own ...
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How to add special characters as text to Blender
I would like to type special characters like stars as text to my blender project ★.
However, I am unable to copy symbols and paste them into blender like I can with normal text.
What steps do I need ...
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How to randomise carpet texture to make it more 'real'
I have imported a carpet texture onto a plane, however the particles of the carpet look extremely large in relation to the stool:
I have tried to scale it down, however the carpet looks 'repeated' ...
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Text fading away into mesh as I zoom out
I have a sign with text here:
But as I zoom out, the text blends in with the mesh behind it:
What can I do to avoid this issue and be able to see text at further distances?
Here is the project file.
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FBX export with textures does not work [duplicate]
I have a very simple blender project, a cube with a simple shader and a texture:
I want to export my simple blender project in FBX format, including the texture, so I set the FBX export parameters ...
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Change Text During Animation
I'm creating a 2D animation and I want the text in my animation to change based on the frame. I've added a text object and I can't figure out how to get the value to change during animation. It keeps ...
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Snapping a Object to a face with a set direction?
I use Blender 3.5 and I try to add numbers to dice faces (standard 7 piece fantasy set for 3D printing).
What I tried is using the snapping tool, setting the origin to center of mass and made it snap ...
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How to add text to surface without causing a shadow
I have a render of a soda can that I did here:
I added the text using a curve modifier to make it wrap around the can. However, there is a shadow that shouldn't be there (Take a look at the star for ...
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why cant I rotate this Text
I'm trying to rotate this text around a pen to emboss it. but instead of rotating the text horizontally around the pen I am trying to stretch it around the cylinder vertically. I know there's is ...
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Project renders with a huge square taking over the text
I am extremely new to Blender and was following a youtube tutorial for this project. The guy didn't go into a lot of details about rendering but his project rendered fine. However, mine has a huge ...
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How to create a 'chiseled' bevel like in Photoshop [duplicate]
I'm trying to add a bevel to some text, to give a similar look to the below 'B' that I made in Photoshop using the chiseled option.
But I can't find anything ...
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Does Blender allow me to change the key mapping for moving the text cursor in the Outliner text fields?
I'm a macOS user, and I am used to the standard text cursor navigation found in apps like Adobe After Effects, Xcode, web applications, and text editors:
CMD + L/R Arrow : Moves cursor to the start or ...
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How to cut text as boolean to subdivision cylinder? [duplicate]
I'm trying to figure out how can I make the text extend the cylinder inwards so It creates effect like there is carved out text into that cylinder.
Any help?
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How change scale text
in command bpy.ops.object.text_add scale not worked #scale=(0.005, 0.005, 0.005)
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My ALT+C button isn't working
So I am in Blender 3.1 and I am trying to learn how to make a transformational text animation in Blender The creator of this text animation is from tutor4u.
This is the link: https://www.youtube.com/...
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What is the easiest and quickest way to get a curve traced along the letter?
I am trying to have a curve along the lines of the letter, like in the attached photo. Is there a non-manual way to do it? As you can see when I do it manually it's never perfectly in the center ...
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Why my (text) scene is so small when integrating it in the vse?
I have little experience with blender, i am using version 3.4.1.
I'm just trying to create some titles for my clips. So, the camera view is this:
But when I add this scene to the main timeline, it ...
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Font management between machines/OS
Is there a way to make Text objects reference fonts via a relative path?
I have my .blend file versioned, and it will be used on other machines. To make fonts consistent, I would also add a ...
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How To Add Text to Side of Object/Mesh?
This seems like a simple thing to do, but I can't quite figure out how to do it. I want to add a label (text) onto the sides of my object like in this picture:
What is the best way to go about this? ...
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Why is my boolean modifier not subtracting text properly from the wall of the column?
I am trying to create a hollow column with words cut out of the side using Blender. I have been following certain steps to achieve this, but I am not getting the desired results. The first time I ...
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How to create reactive, modifiable fractals with moving characters on them?
my exact goal is the following:
i have a lot of devanagari characters which i want to put on fractal objects, preferably in such a way that i am able to change both the fractal, and change the color ...
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How can I access the rotation of an object and dynamically update it as text?
I am new to Blender and Python. I wanted to see if there is a way to grab the rotation value of an object and show it as text. I am trying to export this as a 3D model to other software, so I am also ...
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I need an animated text for a computer console / typing into a terminal
I need help. I want to animate a text, like a computer.
Like if someone were writing something in a computer terminal, but I don't know how to do that.
Please help!
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Getting The Location Of Animated Object With A Script
I saw that with code below we can get location of an object.
It worked.
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I have problems with dream texture depht 2 doesnt start the texture
I cant start texturized 3d with dream texture stabilityai/stable diffusion depht 2
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text turning into a liquid problem
I want to transform a caption into a waterfall, but I can't.
I tried in 2 ways:
The words become liquid, but for some reason, a letter or two does not become liquid, and I have no idea why. I haven't ...
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Text object with a custom font shown up weirdly
I often have the problem with custom fonts in Blender in that they end up looking really poor like this:
I used a Google font here:
I am working with a MacBook if that is important.
Do I have to ...
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