3d text

Is there an easy way to make 3d text in Unity?

I am talking about text that is basically extruded so it is truly 3d such as the word Snowify here:

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/6343

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks.

 

https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/3627

Otherwise, make text in Blender or other modeling app and extrude it, then import the model into Unity. Obviously that's not dynamic and can't really be changed at runtime.

--Eric

 

Unless you model each letter of the alphabet individually and do a lot of complicated stuff the asset would otherwise handle ^-^

 

Yeah, I seem to vaguely recall that I posted a script that would take an array of 3D models (one for each letter) and convert a string to 3D text that way, which more or less works as long as the font is monospaced. But I couldn't find it.

--Eric

 

Great asset. I used it to make a Syphon based VJ tool used nightly in Vegas at the Marquee for large screen live projection and VJ manipulation. The one issue I had was that I had two text lines that they wanted to tweak separately. I could do so in a clunky kind of way where it would stick if you did not go back to the other line and change font or color there. Be helpful to implement more than one 3D text object.

 

You can just call GetObject twice? Or am I misunderstanding?

--Eric

 

It has been a few months but IIRC when I did that they both changed at once.

 

I'm not aware of any issues with using separate text objects, but if you have any more details, let me know. Probably should be in the FlyingText topic though.

--Eric