How to make font look like this....?

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So I make a font, then I extrude to give it some depth. I’d like to extrude just the edges of the front face, does this require I be pretty proficient with modeling or is there some simple technique I could apply to achieve such an effect?

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try this. http://www.softplatz.com/Soft/Graphics/Animation-Tools/GentleDraw.html it’s an app i got awhile back in an issue of 3D world magazine, and it works pretty good. I am not sure what kind of limitations the trial version has, but the version I got had no trouble exporting.

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thanks, I’ll take a look at that

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in the font object data panel disable back and front, and play with bevel depth.

if this is the effect your looking for you have to duplicate the font object.

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wow, I didn’t know blender could do that. Is that new in 2.5, or have I been missing it all along?

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it can be done in 2.4x also, basically is 2 font objects, one normal and one with front and back disable.
just parent the two and be careful when changing the text change it in both objects.

here an ex.

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Wow, clever! Thanks Paulo