MeshBuilder.CreateText

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Hey team! I’m super glad to share a new feature that was just pushed to NPM and the PG: The MeshBuilder.CreateText function!

Creating A 3D Text object | Babylon.js Documentation (babylonjs.com)

In a nutshell, it is a simple feature that let you create a regular mesh out of a text and some font definition.

3D text example | Babylon.js Playground (babylonjs.com)

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OMG!!!

Thanks a lot!!
Great contribution needed
BJS is going up :rocket: :rocket: :rocket:

ZmBPwn-360

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Haha thanks :smiley:

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That’s super cool. THANKS

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so much appreciated !!!

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Looks like some of the special chars need some special love.

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Which font is it?

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Oh wait no, that should have been fixed…I’ll check why it is not

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Check why # character is rendered incorrectly with TextBuilder · Issue #13907 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js (github.com)

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Fixed!

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Thanks a million for this. You made my day. I have been struggling for a while creating 3D Text for my application. It now works like a charm. Keep up the good work !

Question: could you please confirm that the x,y,z point around which rotation applies is indeed at the center of mass of the 3D Text? Thanks.

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It is! I compute the center of the bounding box for that

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Ok. There is something weird from my point of view. When creating the mesh and positioning it at 0,0,0, the center of the bounding box is clearly offset from the origin:

Am I doing something wrong?

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I will let @Deltakosh comment on this one :slight_smile:

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PR is here CreateText does not align text on z by sebavan · Pull Request #14493 · BabylonJS/Babylon.js · GitHub

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some lower case letters need some special love:

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and uppercase letters like J and Q, too:

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The full mesh is aligned so it is kind of expected if you generate letter by letter

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