Font23D is a C++ library for creating a 3d mesh of any Text in the given True type font.

Demo: Font23D running on browser using webassembly

Install the dependancies

sudo apt install libfreetype6-dev

Now just run the bash script to get the OBJ file output.

sh compile.sh

Below outputs are generated using different fonts

Unicode Support

Instruction to use:

• The Library uses FreeType Library to decode the fonts and converts the Text into Vector.
• Then the vector data is converted into triangles using Ploy2Tri library.
• This gives us the triangles of the complete text in a plane.
• The plane is then extruded into 3d object and then creates a closed mesh.
• The Mesh is then saved as OBJ file.

Plans for Future:

• Support WebAssembly and create sample web page to convert input text using uploaded font to 3D mesh.

Contributions:

• Thanks to J.Scheurich from White Dune Project for suggesting fixes for Face culling.
• Thanks to DaegyuMin for fixing a bug in missing triangle.