Is it possible to create a text geometry without a font?

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Is it possible to create a simple text without loading any font file???

*Maybe I’m confused, once I saw an example creating a simple flat Geometry text without loading any font (now I can not find it, probably I got confused).

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Do you mean that example?
https://threejs.org/examples/?q=text#webgl_geometry_text_shapes

Also, you can define/create your own font (great example from @hofk):
https://discourse.threejs.org/t/how-many-ways-to-load-a-font-in-three-js/2054/17?u=prisoner849

3

Thanks, probably is, maybe I missed the font object that was already loaded before create geometry.

maybe no way to create text without loading font file…

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I’ve never seen something like this in the official examples. At least when we talk about geometries. You can still render text on a canvas element and use it as a texture.

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Just reminded me about this:
https://stemkoski.github.io/Three.js/Texture-From-Canvas.html

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It is a good option… thanks guys

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@Mugen87 can we add thickness to texts in Canvas? to show texts with a thickness in 3d

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What I mean in Is it possible to create a text geometry without a font? - #4 by Mugen87 was to use a canvas as a texture on a plane surface. This approach is normally used for labels. If you are looking for an extruded 3D geometry, you need a font so it is possible to generate a real (triangulated) shape that can then be extruded with a custom depth value.