Render vector text Draws 3D text in the named drawing context. The text can be sent as a symbol, a list of symbols, or as a jit.matrix containing char data. When a jit.matrix is used, each row of the matrix is interpreted as one line of text. Cycling '74 Jitter Jitter OpenGL messages to this 3d object TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE matrix output if enabled TEXT_HERE dumpout TEXT_HERE Appends to the stored text Appends the specified symbol or list to the stored text string. Set the font face Specifies the face variant of the current font. One or more face variants may be specified. The Supported font faces are normal, bold, italic, underline, outline, shadow, condense, and extend. Set the drawing font and size Specifies the font and size in which to draw. TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Set the font face Equivalent to face. Replace the stored text Replace the current text string with a symbol or list of symbols. Text alignment mode Text alignment mode (default = 0 (left))
0 = left
1 = center
2 = right TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE 3D depth The depth (z extent) of the 3D geometry relative to the height of the font (default = 0.) If a depth of 0 is used, no extruded character sides are generated, which will draw much faster. Floating-point precision rounding Toggles floating-point precision rounding. Floating-point precision When float point precision rounding is enabled set via the floatchomp attribute, this value sets the precision of the number. Font Size TEXT_HERE Text leading The leading between multiple rows of text as a multiple of the standard leading. (default = 1.) Line Length TEXT_HERE Matrix Output TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Mode TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Matrix text plane The plane of a multi-plane char input matrix which will be interpreted as text. (default = 0) Quadratic curve precision Sets the precision of the quadratic curve calculation [0 ->inf], The default is 1.0 Screen Mode TEXT_HERE Slant TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE Tracking (intra-character spacing) The tracking (intra-character spacing) as a multiple of the standard tracking for the face. (default = 1.) Weight TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE TEXT_HERE

The jit.gl.text3d object requires one argument: the name of a drawing context. A named drawing context is a named instance of a jit.window, jit.pwindow, or jit.matrix object that has an instance of the jit.gl.render object associated with it. Additionally it can reference the name of a jit.gl.node sub-context. This value may also be set via the OB3D drawto attribute. If no argument is present, the object is implicitly added to the first valid drawing context or sub-context found in the current patch or by searching up the patcher hierarchy.

Because jit.gl.text3d creates GL geometry by reading the TrueType glyphs directly, only fonts which are stored explicitly in the TrueType format will draw. Attempting to read Type1 fonts and bitmap fonts will generate an error.

Notes:

Setting the depth attribute and sending the methods font and face each cause the font to be rebuilt from the TrueType outlines, which is a slow operation, on the order of a second.

Only True Type outline fonts are supported