script for converting ttf fonts into tga textures

Game Engine Game Engine Support and Discussion
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Hey everybody,

I wrote a script to convert truetype fonts to blender tga images,
a.k.a: 'text’ures :wink:

You can use it as a command line tool, or with the mouse…

you need to install python and pygame (1.5)
(python.org,pygame.org)

example

python ttf2blender.py c:\windows\fonts*.ttf

converts all fonts registered in windows into tga images.

This script was ‘reverse engineered’ from the arial bold texture.

Jasper

http://www2.hku.nl/~jasper5/blender/ttf2blender.zip

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Thanks a lot! Pretty cool that you reverse engineered it, and using pygame hehe, thats coo too.

3

You do know someone already made such a thing?

I was looking for it too, and Ben gave it to me…

it’s called ftblender…

Nice though…

Carl

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Hey Carl,

I didn’t know that. :o

FtBlender seems like the way to go,
I always thought that there would be something like that…

Ah well, it didn’t take that long to write the script :smiley: