PFE Text Generator

PFE Text Generator is an easy-to-use program that lets you design 3D text with the help of advanced features, and then export the project to file. It supports multiple camera angles for viewing the design, text materials, light parameters, and a screenshot grabber.

Installing this tool is a fast task that shouldn't impose any difficulties, thanks to the fact that the setup wizard contains only familiar options.

Once it's over, you are greeted by an outdated window that shows sample 3D text, along with a drawing box and menu bar. Aside from flat viewing mode, you can switch to Gouraud shading mode.

It's possible to zoom in and out, translate light or flare, rotate the light direction, select the yellow, blue or green light, pick the lens flare, scale text, rotate the camera around the text, and initialize the camera position, zoom and target.

The parameters for each light color can be modified when it comes to the position, direction, cut off and color. Alternatively, you can disable any of them.

The design may be observed from the front, back, up, down, left or right. Plus, you can set an accurate position, target, zoom level and rotation degree for the camera by inputting these numerical values.

When it comes to text editing, you can write a new caption, select a font different than the sample, enable or disable bevel and rounded edges, set the bevel depth and width, indicate the extrusion length and precision, or apply up to two filters (perspective, rainbow).

There are four materials available for the front and back, side, and beveled size, and you can specify different fabrics and colors for each perspective: ambient, diffuse, specular, and emission. The shininess level for each angle can be edited too.

Before rendering the project, you can personalize the background color, take a snapshot and save it as a .jpg image, specify the output destination and file name, adjust the JPEG quality, render the lens flare and glow, as well as enable anti-aliasing mode. It can be exported as a VRML or C/OpenGL file.

Although it hasn't been updated for a long time and it has an outdated interface, PFE Text Generator features some handy and straightforward options for creating and rendering 3D text projects. It's free for non-commercial use and had minimal impact on computer performance throughout our evaluation.