1 - Option 1: Using the "Wall Text Creator" Tool
2 - Option 2: Adding custom Text Panels or Logos
Option 1: Using the "Wall Text Creator" Tool
With this basic editor, you can create wall text panels fast and easily, to have them available as artworks instantly in your account. By default, the produced 'artwork' has our recommended settings. You can edit all these properties in the final artwork later.
How to start
- Click on "Add Artwork" in the ART.Depot and then on create wall text.
- Copy text in, or type directly into the text field. There is no limit on characters or paragraphs.
You can use either pre-formatted text (from word etc.), or format it with the tool's choices. - Adjust the defaults in the various dropdown menus to your needs:
- Size
- Font
- Background / transparency
- Color - wheel
- orientation
The font size will influence the length of the line, as this is a fixed parameter.
You can scale the final panel with the in-room editor.
These defaults are set, also to be edited in the artwork if desired:
- the title of this 'artwork' are the first words of the text
- full text is added in detail info automatically
- artwork is unlisted
- it is set flat on the wall with transparency activated
- it carries the tag 'walltexts'
Please note: The wall texts are handled like normal artworks and also require space in your inventory.
If you wish to create this yourself, using fonts or effects we don't provide in this editor, here are the steps to create your own png as needed, you can use the option below.
Option 2: Adding custom Text Panels or Logos
You can easily display transparent artworks on the wall, such as the artist's name, exhibition title, topic or logo.
We have an example of white text on a darker wall.
Simply create the text as an image and upload it to the wall as artwork. Transparent background, using a png file, gives the lettering a professional touch.
The same applies to logos: create them with a transparent background and handle them in the same way as described below.
Handling as artworks in Kunstmatrix
When you have your file prepared, you upload it as an artwork (it requires its own placeholder, too).
There are 3 tabs (5 when upgraded). We concentrate on 'Basic Info', and '3D-display' here.
(1) - Upload your png image in the 'basic info' tab as if it were a painting or drawing.
(2) - Go to the 3D-display tab
(3) - There, activate the check-box "transparency".
If you skip the dimension info in the 'basic info' tab, the system will assign a default size of 1 meter height, the proportions based on the png file’s properties. For larger size in the room, you can adjust the dimension easily with the scaling factor in the '3D-display' tab and need not deal with assigned dimensions in the 'basic info' tab at all.
(4) - activating 'not-pickable' might be wise for certain logos and emblems that aren't part of the actual exhibtion.
Please note: In order to keep such Text Panels out of the catalogue, consider activating ‚unlisted‘.
If you activate ‚not-pickable‘, the detail view is de-activated and your visitors cannot scroll closer.
Advanced text handling options
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