Yesturday I was adding some text to a model and needed a heart… I had never looked at clipart/symbols before, but when working in other Apps, I simply look up a symbol online and copy/paste it.
So I did this and found a nice heart “”, but although it appeared as a heart in the text box, when it appeared in 3D it was just a box.
I tried again with another symbol “” and it was the same…
I was about to give up and I found this one which works “”
Any idea why 3 of these symbols are not supported? Are there any other ways to add Symbols? I did play around with the Windings fonts and found a few options… But that was quite fiddly as you have to use the Windows “Character Map” to find the symbol you want… And then copy/paste it in against the correct font…
Just to be sure it wasn’t a fluke, I tried the same with a diamond (♢⟐⟣⬥⯁⧱⬩) and again only 1 is supported.
Buts not the easiest of solution as its difficult to find the character/symbol you need… It would be nice to be able to copy/paste symbols from elsewhere like you can with most if not all text based apps.
Its odd that the Text dialogue window supports and shows the symbols (in the case hearts), but they don’t end up in the 3D view…
Edit: Actually I lied… I used THIS one instead from the “symbol” font:
”, but although it appeared as a heart in the text box, when it appeared in 3D it was just a box.
♢⟐⟣⬥⯁⧱⬩) and again only 1 is supported.
