3D Font Creator for Windows 95

[@FoxerTails]

My heart skipped a beat when Clint started to draw on the box with a Sharpie. Luckily, it was just the shrink wrap.

[@alucardblack1]

So i wasn't the only one xD

[@CaveyMoth]

You could say he was drawn to it.

[@ducksonplays4190]

@@CaveyMoth two drums and a cymbal fall off a cliff

[@ricigri1242]

As the somg says "You are not alone"😂👌

[@djcsdy2]

Same. Epic bit of trolling right there.

[@ian_b]

People may laugh now, but kids today don't understand how expensive 3D fonts were back then. Just one 3D font was a major investment and many families had no 3D fonts at all, or had to rent one. As a kid growing up, I dreamed of having a 3D font but I never thought I could have one. Then, one Christmas, there was a package under the tree. A lumpy, 3 dimensional package. It was the only present; my whole family had got together to buy it. Thrilled and bubbling with anticipation, Christmas morning finally came and I had to wait as my family opened their presents first; my dad got a secondhand toothbrush, my mum got a lump of coal. My sister was thrilled by her post-it notes and my gran got a biscuit. And then it came to my turn and my gran said, "we all got together and I went and chose it just for you" and I tore off the newspaper wrapping and ribbons made of recycled strips of sock. it was Comic Sans.

[@DjAle1]

👏👏👏

[@nickwallette6201]

‘Twas the night before Christmas at LGRs house adjusting the kerning with the click of a mouse

[@SmeddyTooBestChannel]

I enjoy how progressively less believable this comment gets

[@joecool9739]

I can only say something about you that I cant say for myself: Your family must really love you

[@NezomiFloof]

I was the 100th like on this comment, I’m so proud

[@lastcontinue3010]

5:42 "Do-It-Yourself Lawyer" - I hope we get to see that one in a future episode

[@brenster21]

I now want to buy that software and send it to my dad and actual lawyer.

[@scose]

way before Cinco E-Trial!

[@ojkolsrud1]

Can I just say, I really appreciate that you buy these pristine Win/DOS products, and you actually unwrap and install the software. I can see the reasoning behind never unwrapping such things, but if it wasn't for people like you, we would never see what these boxes came with and how the programs work. Thanks for that, dude.

[@keyspirits95]

Yeah! Paraphrasing what he said in a previous video; "These things aren't going to last forever, thwy'll eventually wear out and die so let's enjoy them for the time being."

[@RyTrapp0]

Anyone that prioritizes the box over the software doesn't 'get' it...

[@kh-ro5su]

i agree, though there's different types of collectors, namely ones more obsessed with the monetary value of an object or long-term preservation of once. LGR opens things and plays around with since he wants to and that's great, but i can also respect the collectors that keep some objects in pristine condition for the sake of perseveration for the future interest. if it wasn't for them, these unique objects would easily end up thrown away and we'd have less specimens to look at as time goes on

[@OnlyEpicEmber]

@@kh-ro5su I like to do both

[@TheTomimt]

3D fonts were the coolest thing back in the day. I guess many a homework was returned with a 3D title proudly on top.

[@melskunk]

Nothing said fancy like a 3d font title page in a clear presentation folder, you were getting that A

[@eddiehimself]

NGL, I literally laughed out loud when Clint saw this in the brochure, said "I'll have to look at getting that one!" and then it just cuts to "thank you for your purchase!"

[@BaumInventions]

FU Fun Universtiy... Thats an awesome T-Shirt design i have to admit

[@arootube]

I remember it being a really popular one in the early 2000's. It's in an episode of That 70's Show too actually. I wonder how far back that joke actually goes..

[@JonnyInfinite]

I smell merch

[@christophermiller3031]

I would have worn FU fun university as a teen... It would have complimented my other shirts such as "quicherbichen"

[@skopm]

There is an actual university that does that, Finlandia University in Upper Michigan.

[@RolloTonéBrownTown]

My new headcanon is the shoe string production of 70s show needed a way to make a t shirt for an episode and someone randomly had this program

[@DeadwingDork]

well I know what I'm making all my thumbnail text with now

[@CaveyMoth]

Please use woodgrain+army ants!

[@markm0000]

DeadwingDork it’s so different and attractive you might actually glitch the algorithm and get more views. Lol

[@abrahamicreligionsbowbefor3585]

wendell nesmith is very mad at you

[@Droidiak]

BROOOOO

[@papapingas1797]

So you watch LGR I see you are indeed a man of class

[@nobodyyouknow1065]

Do you remember a time when the term 3-D was a selling point? LGR remembers.

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

I also rember in the mid 2010s where they tried to do it again with TVs

[@kevin12567]

@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 And now they're doing it with VR.

[@aserta]

Or using the letter X in every world. Wormhole X-treme!

[@ironcito1101]

When the number 2000 was futuristic, when everything was Something Online, E-Something, then iSomething.

[@TheZombieCurryKid]

I know!!! I love this shit!

[@AkosJaccik]

That... actually exceeded my expectations. The software I mean.

[@Karmy.]

Same

[@HunterAtheist]

9:10 "Super Word Art" The sequel we never knew we wanted, but we really do.

[@Tamhvm]

Maaaaaan, this is SO 90s, love it. I still remember doing abhorrent slides on PowerPoint 97, totally allowed back then.

[@cacheman]

4:34 3DFONT31.Z and 3DFONT95.Z .. probably different executables, the installer picks one.

[@ToiletPlugger]

Starting the day with an "Oh Dear" sums up the existential nightmare that is 2020.

[@expendableround6186]

“The joke wears thin when it mirrors your reality.” -Max Payne

[@Wolfburns]

The way you removed the plastic wrap from the jewel case made my jaw drop. I am suddenly angry at myself for countless hours spent picking at the tabs trying to open it "correctly." Love the videos, love learning new old techniques lol.

[@thisisnotanick]

OMG I remember I had this pretty much when it came out! I had a webpage with a spinning 3d text logo and it made me feel like I was the best webdesigner on the planet :)

[@willm5032]

WordArt and the 3d fonts was my shit when I was at primary school. I'm a Graphic Designer now, and I'm 100% sure that its down to this kind of software being about haha

[@Blood-PawWerewolf]

Did the same thing. My PowerPoint projects in like kindergarten & first grade were all full of 3D words. Most of them at the “infinite” distance of how far the 3D went.

[@wordart_guian]

@@Blood-PawWerewolf In 4th grade I found out that if you set certain wordart (in escher2) values above 4 digits, the software can crash out of too much 3D. I still have documents that take too much power for even my modern computer to handle. They can open but it takes like 10 minutes.

[@willm5032]

@@Blood-PawWerewolf I think I used infinite on every single piece of homweork back in the day haha. In fact I vaguely remember my school actually banning wordart because teachers got so annoyed with EVERY kid doing the same

[@willm5032]

@@wordart_guian No one person should have that much power

[@wordart_guian]

@@willm5032 I first discovered wordart when I was like 6, it was escher1 on word 2002 I think? But then I completely forgot. No memories whatsoever, I only know because I printed that stuff. But then I "discovered" Escher2 wordart at 10 (word 2010 then powerpoint 2007), and it gave you soooo much control over every single parameter, so I'd spend hours a day picking the perfect one, and pushing every option to its limits. The coolest thing nowadays is, you can use wordart in body text, and you bet I do that. In high school I'd put a very slight gradient and effect, fine-tuned so that my text always looked slightly off, but you never knew why. I'd also fake printer problems in the gradient.

[@porklaser]

I have a bit of a soft spot for Expert Software titles. They were cheap as dirt, sold everywhere (Walmart, office supply stores, Target, etc), and had so many oddball programs and games! With my meager allowance in the early 90s I ended up picking up a lot of them. There's just something about the company. They sold cheap software, everything was done on a budget, but they were proud of it and they delivered a working product! At my first real job we used the heck out of Expert Typing for YEARS. (A Job center sort of place. Clients used it to practice typing) The program would run out of a fileshare and and was tiny.. And Kept working on every windows version from windows 95 on Pentium ||s all the way through 64 bit windows 7 on core2 duos. (Until the job center systems were finally replaced with thin clients) The instructors loved it so we never changed it. At some point in storage I found the 80+ boxed copies that were originally purchased.

[@manicware96]

Sounds like a great story, actually! Miss the times when things like clipart, screen savers and software like this was sold in stores! Nobody cares about this budget stuff today (if ever) but it's really a fascinating subject when you think about it, a piece of software history neglected by everybody.

[@BrokenCircus]

re WordArt, there was actually a lot you could do with it. If you open the Drawing and 3D dialogue boxes, they let you customise everything! That might have been introduced in Office 2000, though, so YMMV.

[@wolstech]

Pretty sure it was in Office 97. I know word can definitely do most (if not all) of what this does, but it's not obvious since the options are buried. I remember playing with wordart and discovering the extra toolbar for 3D one day...

[@RandomlyDrumming]

2:15 Damn, Clint, you got me there for a moment! xD I was like "what the hell are you doing, dude, you're ruining the box!?!" :)

[@cerberus144]

I know, I felt my heart sink until he mentioned it was still wrapped in plastic.

[@RandomlyDrumming]

@@cerberus144 same :D

[@AmazingArends]

In these crazy times, it's always nice to watch your videos, recalling a time when we had this innocent faith in technology and faith in our society as a whole!

[@ReginaTrans_]

Me: _I wonder why Clint grows his fingernails_ Clint: *3:20* *Me:* he’s a werewolf

[@Dogy0909]

I love these blerbs where you look at weird old programs, I’m kind of obsessed with buying programs like this whenever I find them at garage sales, lol.

[@nomadicsculpt]

Brings back memories from ’99 when I started my own web creation business and started learning 3D Max and all things 3D.

[@fenixdg]

The thing I love about so many old desktop applications is when they list "8-bit or higher sound card required". How? Why? What audio requirements could a 3d font maker genuinely need to function :D

[@LGRBlerbs]

Probably for the sounds in the on-disc catalog program.

[@Kae6502]

I remember seeing that in the bargain bins at Office Max back in the day. Never picked it up though. I always assumed it would be just a bunch of "3D" true type fonts. This actually looks like it would have been fun to play with. Thanks!

[@frother]

"The army ants want you!" is one of the scariest sentences I've ever read.

[@harriehausenman8623]

Yeah, it has a distinctive "Phase IV" vibe to it.

[@IRMacGuyver]

I've had some expert software stuff in the past. This is way better than what I expected from my experience.

[@Lee_NV]

I had some many of these Expert Software CDs as a kid. You could often find them on the discount rack in computer stores. So many memories

[@umchoyka]

9:28 I was actually astonished when the characters from the different objects obeyed their depth information and overlapped each other properly

[@adamweb]

YESS!!! DUDE! I bought this at Babbage's with money my grandma gave me for my birthday in 1996. As everyone has noted, it in fact does not create fonts, only images.

[@rolandkatsuragi]

I love how the fan starts screaming after the textures are applied

[@Kepe]

It's not a fan, it's the CD drive spinning the disc. As Clint said when he clicked on the texture tab at 11:17, the textures are on the CD and are loaded from there.

[@jesteryou8656]

I would have loved this as a kid and I would have loved it now. I need more 3D fonts in my life.

[@pafnouticlavipiano]

Your content is always interesting. I've also used WordArt quite extensively as a kid, mainly in Word 2003... You can tweak some parameters with WordArt too... My first experience with a word processing software was at the age of 2 when I decided to write the alphabet and print it. I still remember the struggles I went through but also the intense joy when I had been done. As dumb as it can seem, it was pretty much a feat for a 2-year-old haha! And the days after, I started to do it again, using various font, printed them and displayed them in my bedroom. If you think I was a strange kind of 2-year-old, you are right.

[@hittheboof1084]

0:28 he disliked his own video, the madman

[@IgnatSolovey]

As a 1990s kid who had quite an experience with more or less equivalent Russian DOS software called “PlakatIndex” (it made 3D-ish text and could compose printouts on perforated paper... we made a heavy use of it in 1992-1995 at school where we were, quite innovatively at the time - and indeed wisely - taught not only Basic programming and charting algorithms but actually using what was modern software then, i.e. DOS, Lexicon text processor, Windows 3.1 and later 95, Word, Excel... as well as played Wolfenstein, DOOM, and Mortal Kombat during recesses and after classes - a perk of having an “informatics” teacher as what in the US would be a homeroom teacher), I'd say that it wasn't Expert Software staff who did samples... rather their 10-12-year-old kids. I see a fifth-grader experience and a sixth-grader humor.

[@Jagerbomber]

Oh man, I loved Wordart 3D fonts as a kid. Used them for every posterboard school project and then some.

[@pgodwin]

You can customise the word art completely. Bring up the 3d toolbar and you can change the texture, angle, shape. Etc

[@jonathaningram8157]

Made me remember my first 3d modeling software that I used as a kid.

[@glorfification]

I enjoyed playing with fonts on my Amiga, back in the 80's and 90's. Especially that chrome-in-the-desert texture, I really liked 3d chrome fonts!

[@6581punk]

I blame the opening titles of Superman for creating the whole 3D font concept.

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

Lol true. For me it was mid to late 90s' video game marketing, where every video game had 3D in the title or in the description of the game.

[@draketungsten74]

@@pleasedontwatchthese9593 Yeah, in this case I think it was a 90s thing, but it was also popular in the 70s.

[@thegap0]

Happy Thanksgiving from a fellow North Carolinian. Love all your videos!

[@AndyKazama2]

Thanks for keeping 90s computing alive.

[@AlyxxTheRat]

I doodled 3D letters and logos in school too. Glad I wasn't the only one.

[@robintst]

That's some legitimately awesome 3D WordArt software. For real, I'd use that today if I had a purpose for it.

[@hanneskrueger9489]

I love how you disliked your own video^^

[@zeze64.]

XD

[@anew742]

Taking a page out of 3kliksphilip's book lol

[@DerekWitt]

Lol! FU? Probably the same people who came up with Frank Underwood or Francis Uruqart on House of Cards!

[@bryceschug486]

It may have something to do with the algorithms. I have heard from multiple channels that the like and dislike do the same thing.

[@hanneskrueger9489]

@@bryceschug486 Or, you know, just a little hidden joke... 0:25

[@nickwallette6201]

I used to have a program like this called Instant 3D! The exclamation is part of the title. It was really really good at consuming all the memory and paging to disk until it seemed like it would wear holes through it. Eventually though, you would have words in textured 3D fonts. And sometimes a crash to desktop, with a nice slow line by line redraw of your wallpaper. Those were the days.

[@SueBobChicVid]

Clint's enjoyment of this had me giggling. Good example of why I'm here.

[@Zoyx]

I bought this back in the day. I really wanted my 1990s html pages to pop! And boy howdy did they!

[@brokenstyx]

this looks way better than i expected. i thumbsd up at your reaction to the wood font on the back of the box, "we're gonna do that xD

[@AnotherSilverWolf]

Gosh...at one point in time I think my youth group had this program for our slides. This brought back weird memories of barely legible blocky rainbow colored slides projected by a dying bulb upon a bare white wall.

[@davideisner6171]

I had this. I think it was on a magazine CD, like Computer Shopper or something. I also was strangely fascinated with that sort of thing. Also had a kids word processor with cool bits and bobs to put on the screen called Creative Writer. More fun than pencils. Actually, I quite like pencils now.

[@phazonclash]

I would have had a blast back in the days with that program, when I was 11-12yo!

[@destructionator17]

I had Expert Astronomer back in the day and I loved it... I still actually miss its easy little starmap creator ui.

[@ZockAmigo]

Seeing Clint having fun with weird stuff always makes me happy

[@draketungsten74]

I love it when my documents explode in 3D and burn my house down.

[@GeckonCZ]

With the lemons!

[@draketungsten74]

@@GeckonCZ With the documents in this case, but you got it!

[@fensoxx]

That was nearly a full fledged LGR main channel review right there god damn hah! Thanks!

[@VengefulNonsense]

I'm reminded of The Plutonia Experiment's title screen

[@Christopher-N]

To me, _Final Doom_ is Doom 3.

[@autumn_of_thought]

Yeah, also the 3D effect in the classic Doom's logo itself looks majestic on a grand scale.

[@thefunkdroid2777]

@@Christopher-N Except Plutonia sucks. TNT is awesome, though. (And yes, I completed both in Ultra violence difficulty).

[@Christopher-N]

@@thefunkdroid2777: I never liked how the Icon of Sin spawns arch-viles. It makes the end levels, particularly _The Plutonia Experiment,_ feel unfair rather than just challenging.

[@thefunkdroid2777]

@@Christopher-N Absolutely agree. Plutonia is just unfair and the level design is quite subpar and inconsistent. Even Freedoom phase 2 is better

[@hester06]

You had me at, "wood 3D font." I'm sold

[@sjake333]

Was shocked for a moment when you wrote on the box!

[@stillbuyvhs]

@11:49 The textures may be ugly, but they also have a sorta geewhiz factor too them. The fact that you can add them is more important than wether or not they look good. That, & it gives them an extra blurb for their box & catalog.

[@brycevo]

Can't wait to see you use these for thumbnails and other video arts

[@crazyivan030983]

Wow. Much more than I expected. Greetings from Poland :)

[@fubaralakbar6800]

I like how you created the word "Farts" in that noxious-looking green word art

[@reggiep75]

This takes me back to the old gangster days of graphic design in the early 90's using CorelDRAW, PageMaker, QuarkXpress and other stuff from back in the day.

[@casualseraph709]

I've been watching so much of your older content, I was surprised to see this is hot off the editor lol

[@kaitlyn__L]

damn, I was just the same with drawing 3D words (or "bubble writing" as I called it even when it was more blocky than bubbly), trying to get it perfectly sized for the page and all of the perspectives consistent between letters. irony now that one of the things people do and love about WordArt is having the various templates at different angles from each other together next to each other. although they're still consistent within each piece of WordArt.

[@uzukitsune]

I remember being fascinated by WordArt too when I started using my first PC

[@nickbnash]

Fun University! ! ! Thanks for the video, your excitement made my morning.

[@kbpipes]

Expert has a landscape creator. I played with that program for hours a day. I would manipulate the houses, cut and paste parts of the houses together to creat unique homes. Then I would landscape these homes. I had two versions of the program. 3d landscaping and regular expert landscape. I would print them out on my 9pin printer. Never was there a boy with his 386 more content.

[@thesteelrodent1796]

Corel Draw had some rudimentary 3D-ification tools since Draw 3, and they were incredibly fun to play with. Made the most ridiculous covers for my school reports with that :D

[@eDoc2020]

I haven't seen this mentioned yet in the comments, WMF is Windows Metafile. Essentially it's a vector format like the much newer SVG. EMF is Enhanced Metafile, the 32-bit version of WMF released in 1992. Inkscape supports reading and writing WMF if you want to losslessly convert to SVG while keeping the vector goodness.

[@megaglowz8540]

WMF files...hmmm wonder if Samuel L Jackson helped with this? WORDS MOTHER F*****, DO YOU 3D THEM?

[@cheaterman49]

Hahahahah! Good one! « SAY WORDART ONE MORE GODDAMN TIME! »

[@nickwallette6201]

WMF.. that’s so meta

[@SupernovaBetty]

Totally had this back in the day. Gotta make those middle school reports pop!

[@JMartinni]

I recall older installers usually asked you if you want shortcuts at the very end of the installation process so if you just cancel the installation after letting it move the program files of course it doesn't do that.

[@twocvbloke]

Now if it could animate the 3D words into GIFs as was popular on 90s era websites, that'd be even better... :P

[@dingdongbells3314]

Ah, the late 90s/early 2000s "Are ya doing your vacuuming in there son?" "Yes dad, almost done" *Is playing with fonts with the disc in the drive*

[@TheWilldrick]

of course you went and bought it lol. BTW friendly reminder, go get Dust!! I've already played a while of my old copy and man it's right up your alley, including cheesy low bitrate FMV video acting over 90s CGI backgrounds!

[@IRWPD]

A very impressive software from the late 1990's.

[@loughkb]

I wonder how any viewers didn't realize the plastic was still on the box and freaked out when you grabbed that sharpie... :-) Now you'll need to make a wood grain LGR badge for your wood grain PC.

[@DanielLopez-up6os]

This thing is SO Nineties I LOVE IT!

[@FrontSideBus]

Microsoft Publisher wordart, that takes me back! I was a god among men for using that on my school homework in the very early 90's lol. Even if it was printed out on a monocolour dot matrix printer LOL. I love these random big box software, people made software for basically everything in the hope of jumping on the computing bandwagon.

[@SchardtCinematic]

Oh I remember Expert software. Saw it everywhere back in the day

[@conyo985]

This is so 90's! 3D Fonts are so retro!

[@arootube]

"We got ants!" Oh, that's how.

[@bitwize]

WMF = Windows Metafile. Basically, Windows has what's known as the GDI, which it used -- up through Windows XP or so -- as its primary graphical drawing API (excepting DirectX for games and such). Programmers for Windows used calls into the GDI API to render graphics against what was known as a device context. A device context (or DC) was an abstraction that represented a section of the screen, a hard copy output device such as a printer, or an off-screen buffer. WMF was built into Windows and provided a different kind of DC: one which simply recorded the draw calls performed against it and saved them into a file. These draw calls could then be loaded from the file and "played back" onto another DC, yielding the target image intended to be drawn. It was a convenient way of storing data in a scalable vector format that took advantage of the drawing primitives already built into Windows.

[@chriscooke109]

I am glad that I was a young child when word art was a dominant feature in office programs. I can at least forgive myself for lack of good judgement.

[@Justin-TPG]

I was thinking “flushflushflush” until I saw FUn University! But seriously, I’m somewhat impressed at how smoothly the 3D text renders when it’s being moved around in real time.

[@nospaulatu]

One Christmas as a young boy, my parents got me Expert Quiz Show, a Jeopardy-like game from this same publisher. I figured out at one point that it would accept partial answers as correct (so that, for example, if you entered Washington it would still count as matching George Washington)... which makes sense, to a degree. But if I had no idea what the answer to a question was supposed to be, I just entered "E" and there was a good chance I'd win!

[@Cazra-VaporwaveWitch]

12:50 - LGR made vaporwave album art

[@Elliesblossoms]

I felt so cool using word art in my school projects as a kid. I really thought I was a tech genius

[@pleasedontwatchthese9593]

I use to love making 3D text as a kid also.

[@Chaos89P]

Who didn't?

[@reptilez13]

I recently found Escape from Money Island CIB at Goodwill for 6$. And DOS 3.3 for same price. I def picked them up lol. Sent you a message about a crazy retro computer I've never seen I'm trying to find out more about, it was on ebay and may be gone now but it was very unique... Edit: It's a GE Calma computer. Very little info about it out there.

[@lupinzar]

Fun facts! WMF files can be imported into Inkscape. They were also used for the majority of graphics in Microsoft Bob.

[@KlomboFanClub]

everything Clint does he does for us :D

[@iammerxoxo]

Tbh even in 2020 that's very impressive.

[@hjalfi]

Yeah, that program actually looks... almost useful...

[@fidgetgadget3475]

Wow, what a vintage! :D

[@xandercraw]

Aah yes 2020, when LGR gets excited about 3-D text software and I get excited about a video of LGR getting excited about 3-D text software 💫🌟⭐️👍⭐️🌟💫

[@MagnusNilsson76]

Clint is the jewel case opening expert

[@yamaddie]

graphic design is my passion