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Rank: Veteran Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 998

rune i have need of your services(aint ya lucky)

i need some rune-ish looking symbols for some 3D models im gonna be making in the future; since your the forums unofficial self-procliamed symbol expert i thought i would come to you. ya got anything your comfortable sharing with me.

im particularly interested in anything that resembles egyptian heiroglyphs and african/native american markings.

thanks in advance Cool

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

I shall look into this for ya Marx. I have to say, I did not really think that anybody would be truly interested in this sort of thing, but I shall try my best to find something suitable for ya.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

Ah, here is one, I found the link for this awhile back. The glyphs from Egypt did'nt really wow me, but I kept it for research purposes. I was more into the Latin kind from western Europe. Anyways, here is the link where you can download the font.

http://www.jimloy.com/hiero/font.htm

Once you download it, place the file in your font section in your control panel and right click, then press the option, extract here. Bip Bap Bam, instant Egyptian.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 08 Jul 2006 Posts: 2311

Here's some information I dug up on a couple Native North American written language systems. The first link has information on the Cree syllabary, which has numerous variations depending on dialect and region:
http://www.omniglot.com/writing/cree.htm

The second link is where you can download the Cherokee syllabary font:
http://www.cherokee.org/Culture/CherokeeFont/Downloads.aspx

I would be careful using any of these, as a few communities with native speakers still use these writing systems (especially the Cherokee), so throwing in seemingly random symbols into any artwork could cause issues with native speakers and readers of these languages.

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

Ach, damn you beat me to the punchline Johnny.

Rank: Veteran Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 998

thanks dudes Cool

rune, if you come up with anything else, please dont hesitate to share

Rank: Veteran Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 998

hey rune, ya would'nt happen to have DA account or something i could communicate with you on?

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

The only place dude I got to is either YIM, or Gaia

Rank: Veteran Joined: 24 Apr 2009 Posts: 998

bummer...

Royal Member of BonBon Joined: 29 May 2009 Posts: 6010

Why is that?