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Beveling text - how to get smooth letters? About Truespace Archives These pages are a copy of the official truespace forums prior to their removal somewhere around 2011. They are retained here for archive purposes only. Beveling text - how to get smooth letters? // Roundtable 1  |   Order by default Post by davidjohnson // Mar 25, 2009, 11:03am davidjohnson Total Posts: 169 I have extruded some text (ARIAL) and I want to bevel the edges, but I notice with the letters, they are very blocky and not smooth on the rounded parts (for example, the letter "O" doesn't look completely smooth and round on inspection of the circumference). I have tried to subdivide them, but that doesn't seem to work and I have tried subdivision surfaces and that does not work either. Any ideas or suggestions? Maybe a better font? Post by marcel // Mar 25, 2009, 11:18am marcel Total Posts: 569 Try with the max size for the letters before edit the text. You will have more vertices. Post by marcel // Mar 25, 2009, 12:18pm marcel Total Posts: 569 also you can use the "smooth quad divide" tool (model size) when you need to smooth more than the 'max size text" can do. Do that before bevel the text. Post by RAYMAN // Mar 25, 2009, 12:19pm RAYMAN Total Posts: 1496 Its true what Marcel says maximaize the font and then scale it down but you will have to fillet every edge (pick one poly one by one with ctrl pressed)you cant just pick the face and run fillet that messes up the result ! Peter Post by Blue Bellyfluff // Mar 26, 2009, 5:43am Blue Bellyfluff Total Posts: 19 You have to know the magic word....boolean fix! Right click the bevel icon and increase the boolean fix nr. dramaticly to say 300 (100 = standard I believe). Post by TomG // Mar 26, 2009, 5:52am TomG Total Posts: 3397 Workspace side text may work better. You can add various types of bevels onto it automatically, and change the kind of bevel as a "live history" too. There's also live adjustment of quality. Most Model side tools you were "stuck" with the settings you used at creation, but workspace more often lets you keep adjusting those until you are happy (or keep them low for speed until you need your final render for instance). HTH! Tom Post by Jack Edwards // Mar 26, 2009, 5:58am Jack Edwards Total Posts: 4062 BTW, I noticed that you get better results with the text if you use physically large dimensions when creating then scale it down after converting to editable mesh. For some reason there are precision issues if the text is created smaller than say 2.0.

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