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> I know this was discussed a few days ago but I was hoping John Gross and the
> other person - sorry I forgot who it was - who commented on using the
> Stencil feature in Modeler could elaborate on this proceedure? If you mean
> using a polygonal version of the 'decal text' as a template drill this could
> be a problem for people using custom fonts.

Sure.  Here ya go...

My last project for Manny's Digital Fantasies and Light Speed video tapes
had me building a fairly complex robot (ED-209-like).  Rathe than using
image maps, I picked a pretty font and stenciled the letters into the
missile rack, ankle, and gun pods, as well as the lettering for the walls.

It's pretty simple:  you want the number "6" stenciled into the side of a
box.  Make a box in modeller (say, 1x1x1 meter).  Go to another
layer, then click on TEXT, load up any font you want (UnPact is pretty
simple), and type "6".  Scale it so it'll look nice (from the front) on
the box.

Got to Multiply/Extrude an make it 1 metter deep on the Z axis.  Now you
should have (in the backgound layer) a box, and a 6 in the FG layer.  Move
the 6 so that, from the top and side, the 1 meter extruded part intersects
the front of the box.  it'll look something like this:
     _______
    |       |
    |   _   |
    |  | |  |  (Top View)
    |  | |  |
    |__|_|__| ---- BOX
       | |
       |_| ------- 6

Now, hit ] to swap layers (put the box in the FG and the 6 in the BG).
Select Tools (I think)/Solid Boolean.  You'll get a requester with 4
options.  Select the 3rd one (stencil) and another set of options for a
surface name pops up.  Type in something like "6-Face" and hit return,
then click OK.

Now you get to wait (for a very short time...), and there should be a
polygon in the shape of a 6 in the face of the box.  The box has the
surface name DEFAULT, while the 6 has the name 6-FACE.  Pretty easy, huh?

Quick note about cylinders:  you'll want to use Wrap to Sphere of Bend or
something to warp the text around the cylind so it looks good, but if the
curve isn't too extreme (putting a 1 cm C= logo on a 1 m wide can), it'll
look OK (it did for the number of my robot's ankle and the missile casing,
which is cylindrical...)

Hope this helps...

-- Joe

Things to try:

label on a floppy disk/video tape
USAF on an airplane wing (where image mapping would be damn hard)
"Joe RULES" on a brick wall (OK, maybe a diffuse map there...)

Also, extruded pictures (from PixPro) might be useful, if you still need
to image map a Stencil (that way, you could use the same picture as used
for the stencil, and it would fit perfectly where the stencil is)

Have fun!

--
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