Suggestion that add an option of vertical 3D letter direction. - Printable Version +- Wings 3D Development Forum (https://www.wings3d.com/forum) +-- Forum: Wings 3D (https://www.wings3d.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=1) +--- Forum: Gripes & Grumbles (https://www.wings3d.com/forum/forumdisplay.php?fid=4) +--- Thread: Suggestion that add an option of vertical 3D letter direction. (/showthread.php?tid=3035)

Suggestion that add an option of vertical 3D letter direction. - tkbd - 08-27-2021 Currently Wings3D's 3DText plugin can create only horizontal letters. But many 3D letters take a time and effort to re-layout for vertical position after creation with rotate or move. so, I suggest to add an option for vertical text direction. Each OS's native font dialog is buggy and it has complex specifications . So I personally think it is better to perform the processing on the Wings3D side. It may be possible in a simple way, could it for example simply changing the offset direction of the glyph position? Also,I found many examples for it. Stone monuments that inscribed with a haiku,tomb stone and history etc. https://blog.mirokuya.co.jp/wp-content/uploads/2015/04/133f8db9546cfd9f6c3ea18cdfdc9f82.jpg https://media-cdn.tripadvisor.com/media/photo-s/05/a6/6f/f5/caption.jpg https://i1.wp.com/tabi-mag.jp/wp-content/uploads/AH026801.jpg http://k-boseki.com/img-h/asemikinenhi078.jpg Company name plate https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/proxy/KxLcIHBwicuJ3NcE9-LC4hJIjW47roFrMXAnbycdc0nVGClvWYHA3VfLlnu8Yc61eQBUrVGUy9wyp3MdNkhtY2nRcBzwCPJk1LRIaw Message of the ring https://i.pinimg.com/originals/38/1a/8f/381a8fff4495b4b584c812020d5a7938.png Original Stamp. https://image.minne.com/minne/photo/640x640cq85p/966562af2272b130dd4a05400df25360413d9035.jpeg/minne-bucket-pro.s3-ap-northeast-1.amazonaws.com/productimages/25323859/w1600xh1600/c9fba468fa7fff8fbd2c1816d3d241157769281a.jpg Example of alphabets text is here! Personalized Cast Metal Vertical Address plaque. https://i.ebayimg.com/images/g/VHgAAOSw3UFfUM-5/s-l1600.jpg https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/610GYoEPTyL._AC_SL1008_.jpg Engraved wood sign https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71QvM98DWKL._AC_SX466_.jpg Best regards ------------------ tkbd RE: Suggestion that add an option of vertical 3D letter direction. - dgud - 08-28-2021 Long time since I looked at the code, but sounds like a fun (little?) project when I'm bored. Will try to remember. RE: Suggestion that add an option of vertical 3D letter direction. - tkbd - 08-29-2021 dgud,Thank you for reply. OK,I would leave some the information and memo of prepare for the future. (I don't know if it's directly useful ) Noto font : It is good sample for Asian font testing. This high quality font has 7 weights(Black to Thin) as the font families. The font lisense is OFL. https://www.google.com/get/noto/ This full size are very huge,But it can get a font file to choose partially(Small size). (For example, asian language collections is a following ,it comprehensively cover Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, and Korean) Download URL is here OTF format , https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/tree/main/Sans/SubsetOTF/JP TTC format , https://github.com/googlefonts/noto-cjk/tree/main/Sans/OTC Approaching ideas A) Calcurate to translate or rotation with vertical direction the coordinates for generate the next glyph. (Pros: simple implimentation , Cons: Wrong Typograpy can occur depending on the some characters used. Some fixes nessasary.) B) Re-refercence to dedecated glyphs codepoint for vertical writing ( Cons: Not all fonts have this feature.Also, the user wants vertical writing for other characters.) C) Use @font name (Cons:This feature is Windows OS only) Test string: 【グラデーション。、〜】12A１２Ａ —―〰‥…、。〈〉《》「」『』【】〔〕〖〗〘〙〚〛〝〟（）［］｛｝～ ぁぃぅぇぉっゃゅょゎゕゖァィゥェォッャュョヮヵヶー Also I found some information and discussions for vertical text. https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/68887-japanese-vertical-text/ https://forum.affinity.serif.com/index.php?/topic/68887-japanese-vertical-text/&do=findComment&comment=674755 https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/cjkv-information-processing/9780596156114/ https://unicode.org/notes/tn22/RobustVerticalLayout.pdf https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/typography/opentype/spec/ https://www.iwatafont.co.jp/news/img/about_font.pdf https://www.dynacw.co.jp/fontstory/fontstory_detail.aspx?s=86&r=32 https://adobe-type-tools.github.io/font-tech-notes/pdfs/5901.Kazuraki_Tutorial.pdf https://w3c.github.io/jlreq/#characters_and_the_principles_of_setting_them_for_japanese_composition