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2 total messages Started by Charles G. Bennett Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:12

#1250

Author: Charles G. Bennett
Date: Thu, 20 Aug 1992 17:12

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I thought I was finally getting comfortabe with Renderman, until
I decided to display some text.    Just how does one get Renderman
to produce a letter.   The HARD way?   Gosh, I hope that I don't have
to model every letter...  In the book "Renderman Companion" the author 
really blows buy how text "texture maps" are created.   Kinda like the
old Math professor's  "assuming" that a text map exists, such that....

Chuck
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Chuck Bennett, BenaTong Consulting
Harem Security (UNIX Consulting :-) )
cgb@count0.cmhnet.org

Re: Renderman (Answer: how to display test)

#1276

Author: William Shipley
Date: Sat, 22 Aug 1992 13:13

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Charles G. Bennett writes:
> I thought I was finally getting comfortabe with Renderman, until
> I decided to display some text.    Just how does one get Renderman
> to produce a letter.   The HARD way?   Gosh, I hope that I don't have
> to model every letter...  In the book "Renderman Companion" the author 
> really blows buy how text "texture maps" are created.   Kinda like the
> old Math professor's  "assuming" that a text map exists, such that....

You do it the hard way.  The darn hard way.  Luckily, I suspect the modeling  
apps that come out will have this feature built in.  Unluckily, I suspect many  
of them will get it wrong by making geometric approximations of PostScript  
letters, rather than true curves.

Apparently an older version of RenderMan supported text, but that is no more.   
I've got some code that translates PostScript fonts into RenderMan true curved  
objects, but I'm not real keen on giving it away when I can sell it.  (Sorry.)

-William Shipley
The Omni Group

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