Beginners Blender 3D: Tutorial 9 - Working with 3D Text in Blender

How to create simple 3D text and colour it using Blender . 1. In this tutorial, we’re going to look at how to create 3D text in Blender. 2. First off, open a new Blender project and delete the default cube by pressing ‘x’. 3. Add text to your project by pressing ‘Shift A’ or using the ‘Add’ drop-down menu in the info panel at the top of the interface. 4. New text is always added as a flat 2 dimensional object at first. 5. Press ‘7’ and then ‘5’ on the number pad to view the text from top view orthographic. 6. Press Tab to enter edit mode on the text (ensuring that it is selected first.) 7. Use the delete or backspace key to remove the word ‘text’ and then type ‘3D Typography’ or any other words you would like to try out for your first test of Blender’s 3D type tools. 8. Press Tab again to get back to Object mode 9. The text is currently 2D. To make it 3D, we need to make some changes in the properties tab 10. The properties panel always changes, depending on what object