21.
This tool enables you to load fonts into Modeler. But LightWave v9 has
made text creation even easier: It allows you to choose any font on
your system by opening the numeric panel for the Text tool. The Text
Layers tool in LightWave v9 is so easy to use, it??™s just silly.Here, you can
instantly create a string of text or a simple logo and have the program
instantly add surfaces, while putting each word or letter on its own
individual layer. This means you get to animating even faster!
Inside LightWave v9 18
Figure 1.20
The Primitives
category within
the Create tab
offers a wide
range of basic
(and some notso-
basic) shapes
you can use to
create 3D
models.
Figure 1.21
The Text tool
category is
where you??™ll find
the Manage
Fonts command,
Text Layers,
Multi Text tool,
as well as the
Text creation
tool.
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Points
Often you??™ll need to build an object from scratch, starting not with a
box or a ball, but rather a point. Later in this chapter, you??™ll read about
points, edges, and polygons, but essentially, points make up polygons,
sort of like connect the dots.
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