anyways to get Carrara 6 Pro to recognise renderosity's font?
i'm trying to create something for the logo contest and it'd be great if i could get it to accept the font ....

thx in advance

Brian

no sorry i meant the logo font which is phoenix american

What format do you have it?

true type font = ttf

FMEC, here at renderosity for $19.95, is a utility that converts TT to mesh.

ok i'll check it out thx

Are you kidding?? True type works fine inside Carrara... you can look at my tutorial about text in Carrara here:

http://carraralounge.com/index.php?topic=189.0

no i'm not kidding ...
i have various true type fonts and carrara isnt showing some of them in its list when i want to add text.

They all in the FONTS folder?

I do agrre :  True type works fine inside Carrara...
What's wrog with your config?

Maybe a reset in prefences file??

i've double checked everything ... font is where it should be, carrara just wont show it in its text window where all the other fonts are....

You tryed to reset your preferences?

yes

Just a thought... I know of a Mac user (OS X) that reported having trouble with some TrueType fonts in Carrara. Some font makers issue different versions of their fonts for Windows and Mac. Do you know if there's more than one version of the font file available?

Also, FWIW, I found a knock-off font called "Phoenix" at Abstract Fonts (http://www.abstractfonts.com/font/244) that looks very similar. You might try downloading that one and see if it works. I'm not sure that anyone would notice the difference.

i use a mac, its quite possible that renderosity uses only pcs ... so i'll look into it thanks!!!

On Macs, they have some kind of font manager. Such that you have to "turn on" the font. I think it's something like Extensis Suitcase or the such. It's been a while since I used a Mac though, but I remember some things from using them at school a few years back.

On a PC, as long as that font is in the Fonts directory and is of a type supported by the software - it should work. (Although in a few cases, it may also need a reboot first.)

I guess part of that is that Macs have a longer history with publishing for the most part. So if you had a huge font library, controlling what fonts are loaded makes sense. (Imagine starting PhotoShop or InDesign if you had over 1000 Fonts that loaded.) So by using a font manager it is possible to turn on and off customized groups of fonts in addition to individual fonts. (As where on a PC if you get too many fonts, you have to poke around more and move things to and from storage folders manually.)

You remember me that whi have CoreDraw installed can use Bitstream font navigation, that do what you said: create groups of fonts to be used, but in truth this is a little old in new system... I have a lot of fonts here (Maybe almost 500) and all softwares load without problem... I think that in Win it create a cache list for the fonts... But never have a problem loading a TTF font in Carrara.

i'm still looking into it to see what the problem is ....
thanks guys!!

H Artemis can we try this: PM me and send the TTF file to me.. I will create a scene with the letters and you try to open in your computer.

the logo font can be downloaded  from the link below ...

http://www.renderosity.com/mod/rrfilelock/download.php?fileid=37479&key=654

i'll sitemail you my email address so you can send me the file. is that ok?