Using live text as a Cutter INSERT
Added 2022-01-28 10:25:44 +0000 UTCFirst off, very sorry about the video quality. This was a quick help video for someone over on my Discord. But, I thought you all would appreciate it as well.
The problem with text is that you have to convert it to a mesh before you can do anything with it and it just makes things really difficult especially if you want to use a lot of different words and use Booleans to cut them into solids or add them to other objects and then once the text is done you can't really change the font or scale or edit the text or anything like that because it's already been converted to a mesh. (My third grade teacher would be so proud).
So, this INSERT (just put it into any existing KPACK you have) bypasses all of that because it's converted the mesh to a Geometry Node. BTW, I didn't mention in the video, but you can also use the solidify modifier (also part of this INSERT) to adjust the depth of the text, AND you can always use a bevel modifier on it as well if you like.
Comments
I like this one.....maybe a stupid question..... but is there a way to automaticlly offset the origin to the center of the text as well! Would be great for further displacement to use it on spheres.
monkey-san
2022-01-30 15:13:27 +0000 UTCTry it on blender 3.0. geometry nodes changed between 2.93 and 3.0
Chipp Walters
2022-01-30 12:52:39 +0000 UTCI'll check it
Chipp Walters
2022-01-30 12:49:42 +0000 UTCError here. Can’t insert. Wrote about in KPacks Discord folder.
Márcio Nurkim
2022-01-30 12:00:52 +0000 UTCAmazing stuff - thanks again!
Richard Osborn
2022-01-29 13:30:41 +0000 UTCNope, not with this technique
Chipp Walters
2022-01-29 11:12:36 +0000 UTCCheckout your face orientation settings. Try turning them off.
Chipp Walters
2022-01-29 11:11:39 +0000 UTCYou solved the puzzle. I was actually dictating it into my phone and saw that it was this extremely long run-on sentence and didn't really figure out how I would best edit it so I just left it. Haha
Chipp Walters
2022-01-29 11:08:42 +0000 UTCCool beans!
Lyne Frappier
2022-01-28 17:46:51 +0000 UTCyou're a Genius . So much great stuff coming from you ..... cheers
Wouter Weiland
2022-01-28 15:07:50 +0000 UTCFor some reason when I bring in DM-solids (cube) after opening your blend file the cube turns blue and I don't see where to change it back to its original dark gray color
Alan Smiles
2022-01-28 14:12:29 +0000 UTC"My third grade teacher would be so proud". You mean proud of the 5000 word single sentence paragraph? :)
Donald Miller
2022-01-28 13:13:20 +0000 UTCIs there a way to use PNG's on this to have a raised logo please?
Alan Smiles
2022-01-28 12:02:40 +0000 UTC
