As you may or may not (but should) know, the alphabet we use in the west is in essence invented by a sea faring tribe of merchants. I might add that it was in that time, and I suspect ever since, the only tribe that expanded power and influence by means of trade instead of armed conflict. They spread this alphabet because it's much easier to trade if you can understand each other and know you are talking about one and the same thing.
Now, I needed this alphabet in .obj file format because I wanted to create a logo for the main page that leads to my games in various stages of development, a general entry point for the both and some general links. A simple yet sexy page, not too much in your face. With an animated logo embedded in my HTML5 canvas, because that's the (graphical) ingredient that makes my work stand out from the crowd.
Here it is (in ugly crunched .gif):
So, anyhow, I needed the alphabet in .obj file format and thought that would be easy to find, and free, being generic, ancient as fuck and all. But, surprisingly, I couldn't find it quickly, apart from versions I had to pay for and while I understand time, work, skills have value and results don't need to be free per definition, I'm poor as dirt and can't afford it. Besides, come on, it's the bleedin' alphabet, everybody should have a right to use it. Nope, couldn't find it (but maybe my Google skills suck). I did however find it in .stl format under the GNU/GPL license (commercial use allowed) but the program I'm using couldn't eat it.
I had to convert it and luckily, some brilliant people provide just that service on the internet and letter by letter, digit by digit, I obtained the alphabet in .obj file format. Hooray.
Job done, right?
Well, here's the thing, as with my feminist Dilemma, I'm not your middle of the road porn producer. There's some people who have invested their time to mine out the resources I could use to craft what I needed. I've put some time in it as well. Time is money, aye, I'm aware. But I'm getting, and I'm giving back. So the next individual who needs a simple, basic but perfectly workable alphabet in .obj format doesn't have to spend that time but can just go & grab mine.
It lives here (completely safe for work and clean, no ads, banners, pop-ups, cookies, cam-girls). You're welcome.
Once I've got some more resources up, files like these but also useful snippets of code (like my super sexy universal canvas text-wrapped-in-a-box) I'll put the link in the box up to the right, for now you'll just have to trawl through these (TL;DR) walls of text to get to the goodies.
Oh, wait, before I forget; new page is up with access to two! games under development. Here.
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