Objects - Text

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Last updated: 04 Aug, 2015
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This tool converts any text into individual polygon objects or a → MultiBody. Font and size are controlled via your operating system's text dialogue.




Text

Here you enter or copy/paste the text you want to convert.

Font

Opens your operating system's font dialogue. Choose a font, apply a size, and confirm. The appropriate font will be displayed in the “Text” field.

Center at origin

The text object(s) is/are placed at [0, 0, 0].

Combine

When enabled the individual characters will be converted into one polygon object. Otherwise, RealFlow creates one object per character.

Create MultiBody

When enabled the individual characters will be converted into a → MultiBody. The result is a single node, but the characters are still separated internally.

Parent to Null

Creates a null object and adds it to the object's → “Parent to” field. If the null is animated the object will follow its motions.

Group

If the text contains more than one character it is a good idea to group them.

Uniform triangles

When active the text's tessellation is a regular mesh where groups of triangles have the same size. As a result, the text object has much more triangles than a text node without this option enabled, but you can see a significant difference with RealFlow's "Smooth Shading" mode (0 key): the uniform text appears much smoother.

Plane

Choose the text's 2D orientation: “XY”, “YZ”, or “XZ”.

Scale

Change the text's size – the value acts as a multiplier.

Quality

This is the text object's resolution and ranges between 0.0 and 1.0. Higher settings create smoother objects, but also more polygons.

Stroke

This option creates an outline version of the text. The outline's distance from the text is controlled with “Stroke width”.

Stroke width

The outline's distance from the text is controlled with this parameter and given in metres.

Extrude

When enabled the text is converted into a 3D object. The object's depth or thickness is controlled with “Extrude width”. Otherwise, a 2D object is created.

Extrude width

This is the text's depth or thickness given in metres.