Everybody needs 3D Fonts ;-) ... at least I do. And I am thinking if I have to write a code snippet that does it... or:
Question: Has anybody a piece of code that makes a 3D mesh out of 2D Font characters?
Something that goes like this: Fill the image of a char with triangles; calculate and add vertices; double and flip this surface; move it along the z-axis; connect the outside vertices to quads; split them to triangles... texture the now existing 3 surfaces.
Sounds easy - but can be quite a job and the inventing of the wheel again - in case its already done and maybe in a better way.
Question: Has anybody a piece of code that makes a 3D mesh out of 2D Font characters?
Something that goes like this: Fill the image of a char with triangles; calculate and add vertices; double and flip this surface; move it along the z-axis; connect the outside vertices to quads; split them to triangles... texture the now existing 3 surfaces.
Sounds easy - but can be quite a job and the inventing of the wheel again - in case its already done and maybe in a better way.