a silly idea?

[Kaz]

3d text.

First, you need a font. Letters can be made simply with basic tools. Like this "a"...
http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1002513165xns.jpg

I used a cube and a cylinder, modified, muiltimarkered and polymeshed.

Each character can be created as a subscript, yes? So, you create one script for making an "a" and one for a "b" etc...

Now, is there a script command to prompt the user to input some text? That is just what this puppy needs. The script needs to take the text, run the corresponding subscripts for each character and Marker them. When all the characters are completed, the Multi Marker tool will be the entire string.

If no such input command exists, you could create a Keyboard-Like interface to just click on the buttons.

What do you think? If it seems possible, and someone would like to play with it, I would start creating a font, and save each letter as a script.

Then again, the next version of ZBrush may include 3D text and this would be a waste of time....

[banez]

yeah that would be cool and to activate the keyboard text would be the RIGHT CLICK on your mouse to open the keyboard panel.
and maybe have a few option in a drop down menue when you RIGHT CLICK

[rhom]

I think it is a pretty cool idea Kaz-imagine combining this with Digits animation script.

[juandel]

this idea does not sound silly at all to me... as i am not gonna do the job :D there is something i want to add: the possibility to combine several letters as objects (to be able to modify/transform/edit words, lines, sentences...)

- juandel

[Digits]

Hi Kaz

Although zscripts don't have a user input function you could assign each letter a button that would execute the correct script or build a control word to combine them together with a use of another button. However, it is much easier to use the freeware program Elefont, there are links to it somewhere on the forum if you do a search. But then again, for Mac users a script like this would be useful.

[banez]

http://www2.zbrushcentral.com/zbc_uploads/user_image-1002528855cum.jpg
yeah that would be cool because then you could add TEXTURE to your letters LOL.
texture on the Text is from audre in the spider house challange

[Kaz]

EleFont is so cool. Its amazing that such a well made, easy to use program with an intuitive interface is free.

I have used it, but my brain was just left unsupervised for a second or two and these things just sometimes happen...

Just looking for that pure ZBrush solution...