topic Re: 3D Text to have no pen outline in GDL

3D Text to have no pen outline

JGoode — Tue, 14 Sep 2021 06:58:35 GMT

Hello,

Is it possible to get my 3D text to not show a pen outline in the 3D view?

Thanks

Re: 3D Text to have no pen outline

A_ Smith — Thu, 22 Jul 2021 14:12:04 GMT

AC22, win10 works


pen 20 !red
material 99 ! any material

group "one"
DEFINE STYLE "aa" "New York", 3, 7, 0
SET STYLE "aa"
TEXT 0.005, 0, " " !empty
endgroup

group "one1"
material 99
TEXT 0.005, 0, "3D Textnow without line?.."
endgroup

placegroup addgroup{2}("one","one1",0,0,0,1)	!if last digit is '0' (not 1) line will appear

last image (with red lines) - changed 1 to 0.
though idk why it didn't work on the exact same group - had to join to empty 3D text...

Re: 3D Text to have no pen outline

Peter Baksa — Thu, 29 Jul 2021 08:30:47 GMT

A. wrote:
though idk why it didn't work on the exact same group - had to join to empty 3D text...

The last parameter is operationStatus: status control of the operation.
operationStatus = j1 + 2*j2, where each j can be 0 or 1.
j1: generated new edges will be invisible.

If you add the same to something, there are no new edges.

Re: 3D Text to have no pen outline

JaseBee — Tue, 10 Aug 2021 03:02:36 GMT

Seems they've added a function to simplify this process now...

From GDL reference guide...
"CREATEGROUPWITHMATERIAL

CREATEGROUPWITHMATERIAL (g_expr, repl_directive, pen, material)
Returns a group that is created by replacing all pens and/or materials in group g_expr.

g_expr: group expression identifying the base group.
repl_directive:
repl_directive = j1 + 2*j2 + 4*j3 + 8*j4, where each j can be 0 or 1.
j1: replace pen,
j2: replace material,
j4: make edges invisible.
pen: replacement pen index.
material: replacement material index."