It is possible in Away3D to create text 3D objects and then manipulate them in a variety of ways. This chapter covered how to embed a true-type font file in a SWF that could then be used by the swfvector library. We then looked at a simple application that created a flat text 3D object within the scene.

These text 3D objects can be warped in a variety of interesting ways by aligning them to a path. A sample application was presented that aligned a text 3D object to a variety of paths made with both curves and straight lines.

We also saw how to give the 3D text object some depth with one of the many extrusion classes available in Away3D. In the next chapter, we will look at more of these modifier classes, and how they can be used to programmatically create additional custom 3D objects.