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TextGeometry

A class for generating text as a single geometry. It is constructed by providing a string of text, and a set of parameters consisting of a loaded font and settings for the geometry's ancestor class ExtrudeGeometry. See the Font and TTFLoader pages for additional details.

Code Example


    v3d.loadModule('opentype.js', () => {
        const loader = new v3d.TTFLoader();

        loader.load('my_font.woff', function(fontInfo) {
            const geometry = new v3d.TextGeometry('Hello Verge3D!', {
                font: new v3d.Font(fontInfo),
                size: 1,
                height: 0.1,
                curveSegments: 12,
                bevelEnabled: true,
                bevelThickness: 0.1,
                bevelSize: 0.1,
                bevelOffset: 0,
                bevelSegments: 5
            });

            const material = v3d.MaterialUtils.createDiffuseMaterial('MyMaterial', new v3d.Color('red'), 1);
            const mesh = new v3d.Mesh(geometry, material);

            app.scene.add(mesh);
        });
    });

Constructor

TextGeometry(text : String, parameters : Object)

text — the text that needs to be shown.
parameters — object that can contains the following parameters:

font — an instance of v3d.Font.
size — size of the text. Default is 100.
height — thickness to extrude text. Default is 50.
curveSegments — number of points on the curves. Default is 12.
bevelEnabled — turn on bevel. Default is false.
bevelThickness — how deep into text bevel goes. Default is 10.
bevelSize — how far from text outline is bevel. Default is 8.
bevelOffset — how far from text outline bevel starts. Default is 0.
bevelSegments — number of bevel segments. Default is 3.

Procedural geometry is fun. However, in real life applications this feature is rarely needed. It would be more efficient do design text in the preferred modelling suite and export/load to Verge3D via glTF.

Properties

See the base ExtrudeGeometry class for common properties.

# .parameters : Object

An object with a property for each of the constructor parameters. Any modification after instantiation does not change the geometry.

Methods

See the base ExtrudeGeometry class for common methods.

Source

For more info on how to obtain the source code of this module see this page.