aframe-text-geometry-component

0.5.2 • Public • Published

aframe-text-geometry-component

A text geometry component for A-Frame. The text geometry component wraps THREE.TextGeometry.

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Properties

Property Description Default Value
bevelEnabled false
bevelSize 8
bevelThickness 12
curveSegments 12
font Path to a typeface.json file or selector to <a-asset-item>. https://rawgit.com/supermedium/superframe/master/components/text-geometry/lib/helvetiker_regular.typeface.json
height 0.05
size 0.5
style normal
value ''

Usage

Browser Installation

Install and use by directly including the browser files:

<head>
  <title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
  <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.9.0/aframe.min.js"></script>
  <script src="https://unpkg.com/aframe-text-geometry-component@0.5.1/dist/aframe-text-geometry-component.min.js"></script>
</head>

<body>
  <a-scene>
    <a-assets>
      <a-asset-item id="optimerBoldFont" src="https://rawgit.com/mrdoob/three.js/dev/examples/fonts/optimer_bold.typeface.json"></a-asset-item>
    </a-assets>

    <a-entity text-geometry="value: What's up"></a-entity>
    <a-entity text-geometry="value: Dog?; font: #optimerBoldFont"></a-entity>
  </a-scene>
</body>

NPM Installation

Install via NPM:

npm install aframe-text-geometry-component

Then register and use.

require('aframe');
require('aframe-text-geometry-component');

Using Different Fonts

The text component uses typeface.json files, which are Web Fonts converted to JSON for three.js. Typeface fonts can be generated from fonts using this typeface font generator. Select JSON format and we recommend restricting the character set to only the characters you need. You may also have to check reverse font direction if you get odd font results.

You can also find some sample generated fonts in the examples/fonts directory in the three.js repository.

By default, the text geometry component points to Helvetiker (Regular). Each font is fairly large, from at least 60KB to hundreds of KBs.

To include a font for use with the text component, it is recommended to define it in <a-asset-item> and point at it with a selector.

For example in HTML:

<html>
  <head>
    <title>My A-Frame Scene</title>
    <script src="https://aframe.io/releases/0.9.0/aframe.min.js"></script>
    <script src="https://unpkg.com/aframe-text-geometry-component/dist/aframe-text-geometry-component.min.js"></script>
    <script src="myfont.typeface.js"></script>
  </head>
  <body>
    <a-scene>
      <a-assets>
        <a-asset-item id="optimerBoldFont" src="https://rawgit.com/mrdoob/three.js/dev/examples/fonts/optimer_bold.typeface.json"></a-asset-item>
        <a-mixin id="boldFont" text="font: #optimerBoldFont"></a-mixin>
      </a-assets>

      <a-entity mixin="boldFont" text-geometry="value: What's up"></a-entity>
      <a-entity text-geometry="value: Dog?; font: #optimerBoldFont"></a-entity>
    </a-scene>
  </body>
</html>

Or in JS, we can bundle and set a font directly with setAttribute such that we don't have to XHR the font file separately at runtime:

require('aframe');
require('aframe-text-geometry-component');

var fontJson = require('./fonts/myfont.typeface.json');
var el = document.createElement('a-entity');
el.setAttribute('text', {font: fontJson});

Applying a Material

The text geometry component defines just the geometry. We can apply any three.js material to the geometry:

<a-entity text="value: HELLO" material="color: red; src: #texture"></a-entity>

See the Vaporwave Example by Ada Rose Edwards for an example on applying materials.

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