how to put text on 3d model ?

Scripting Issues
1

Hi
I need put text e.g. “sun” on a 3d model, then , change text “sun” by “moon” , without using textures jpg, png … I’ve looked at “TextNode” but apparently you can not. Is there any way to do this?
thank you!

2

You can use TextNode for this. What is the problem you’re having with TextNode?

3

OK Thanks! this code works well:

 self.t="123456789"
 self.text= TextNode('text') 
 self.text.setText(self.t)
 self.text.setTextColor(1,0.8,0,1)
 
 self.text3d = NodePath(self.text) 
 self.text3d.reparentTo(render)
 self.text3d.setScale(2,2,2)
 self.text3d.setPos(0,0,0) 
 self.text3d.setTwoSided(True)

Now I want to put my text in the faces of Cube.egg. How can I do?


self.myCube = loader.loadModel('models/Cube.egg')

self.t="123456789"
self.text= TextNode('text') 
self.text.setText(self.t)
self.text.setTextColor(1,0.8,0,1)

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THANKS!

4

You will simply need to reposition your TextNode to be on top of one of the cube faces.

Alternatively, you may need to extract the text as a texture and apply that onto the cube, which should be possible, but I don’t know how to do that.

5

You can try reparentTo whatever your character is and position it on your characters face.

6

  1. self.text.reparentTo(self.myCube) —> No attribute ‘reparenTo’

  2. self.text3d.reparentTo(self.myCube)—> text appears above the model.

7

Well, after step (2), you simply need to tweak the values for setPos such that the text appears at the right location relative to your model.