I’m animating some text in my project but the font I’m using can’t seem to handle certain character groups, such as these:
const GREEK = 'αβγδεζηθικλμνξοπρστυφχψωΩΔΛλπΣ';
const CYRILLIC = 'ЖБГ';
const HEBREW = 'אבגדש';
const SYMBOLS = '♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩';
When THREE.JS
can’t draw a character that character ends up appearing as a “?” which looks horrible of course.
I’m actually most interested in the symbols group:
const SYMBOLS = '♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩♫♪❤♩';
I would love to display some emojis as well.
Is there a font that’s known for being able to display these symbols?
Or is there a particular way to code this other than the way I’m doing it:
function createCharMesh(char, color) {
console.log("Creating mesh for char:", char);
const geometry = new TextGeometry(char, {
font: font,
size: 60.0,
depth: 3,
bevelEnabled: false,
curveSegments: 8,
});
const textCharMaterial = new THREE.MeshBasicMaterial({
color: color,
side: THREE.FrontSide, // ✅ no back/sides
wireframe: false,
depthWrite: false, // don't write to z-buffer
depthTest: true // still respect z-order for occlusion
});
const mesh = new THREE.Mesh(geometry, textCharMaterial);
// mesh.rotation.y = Math.PI; // face camera direction
mesh.rotation.set(0, 0, 0); // no rotation
mesh.userData.floatSpeed = FLOAT_SPEED + Math.random() * 2.5;
return mesh;
}