makeTextCurves

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Create curves for the given text using the specified font. The text string can be any number of characters typed in from the keyboard. The font is any type available on the users machine.
Each character of the created text string can be made up of many curves. For example, the letter "O" in font type "Times-Roman" would be created with 2 curves: one small O curve inside another larger O curve.

Related nodes

offsetCurve, hardenPoint, filletCurve, alignCurve, closeCurve, smoothCurve

Attributes (9)

count, deprecatedFontName, font, outputCurve, position, positionX, positionY, positionZ, text

Long name (short name)	Type	Default	Flags
count (c)	integer	0
The number of curves for each created text character. There is an entry for each character in the string, and the value should be the number of curves in that character.
deprecatedFontName (dfn)	bool	boolfalse
Prior to Maya 2016 the font attribute used a different syntax on every platform, making it impossible to move a scene between platforms while maintaining the geometry of the text. Starting in Maya 2016 this has been changed to use a standard format across all platforms. When this attribute is true it indicates that the font attribute contains a font name using the old, deprecated syntax. The attribute is automatically set for nodes loaded from old scene files.
font (f)	string	Times-Roman
Font type for creating the text.
outputCurve (oc)	nurbsCurve	NULL
Output curves for the whole text string.
position (p)	double3
Offsets for each character of the created text string. The value is specified in the current distance units.
positionX (px) distance (double) 0.0cm Offsets for each character in X.
positionY (py) distance (double) 0.0cm Offsets for each character in Y.
positionZ (pz) distance (double) 0.0cm Offsets for each character in Z.
text (t)	string	Maya
Text characters to be created.