Text Tool

[Steven547]

OK...I think i'm missing something here...Where is the text tool? I want to create text in my animations, but can't find the font wizard or anything?

 

 

Thanks.

 

Steven

[markeh]

Within the model window or on the model name in the PWS, right click and choose Plugins>Wizards>Font. If it's a mac then.......something similar.

[ronburk]

Font wizard is there, as the previous post locates.

 

Alternatively, if you don't need the text to be highly

3-D and animatable on a per-character basis,

you can use your favorite graphics editor to

create a bitmap containing your text, and then

decal that on to whatever.

 

E.g., you can draw "Star Wars" on a bitmap

using non-white colors on a white background,

load the bitmap into A:M, set its "key color"

to white, apply it to a 4x4 grid (courtesy of

the grid model), and then animate that.

 

If I don't need 3D-ness or per-character movement

in the text, I'm prone to make a decal instead.

[Steven547]

OK..sorry..haven't had a chance to try this lately. I'm in the choreography mode, with a model selected. However, when I rt click, the only plugin options I get are: Export, Simulate Newton, and SimCloth. Am I in the wrong area?

 

Also, when I load 13.0b, I received a "unable to load terrain.hxt" message. I'll also post that in the appropriate section.

 

Thanks!

[Rodney]

I'm in the choreography mode, with a model selected. However, when I rt click, the only plugin options I get are: Export, Simulate Newton, and SimCloth. Am I in the wrong area?

 

You need to be in Model Mode. (What Markh said)