1 way Text mesh?

Questions & Answers
1

Is there a way to have a text mesh only render on the front like a plane.
I want to prevent this from happening.

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4

You can use the shader below: it’s based on the 3DText shader posted by @Eric5h5 in the Wiki, but was modified to cull out the back face. The first step is to save the shader in your Assets folder with a .shader extension - like 3DTextCullBack.shader, for instance. Once the shader has been saved, follow the instructions in the @Eric5h5’s article to complete the job ( http://wiki.unity3d.com/index.php?title=3DText )

3D Shader with cull back:

Shader "GUI/3D Text Shader - Cull Back" { 
  Properties { 
     _MainTex ("Font Texture", 2D) = "white" {} 
     _Color ("Text Color", Color) = (1,1,1,1) 
  } 

  SubShader { 
    Tags { "Queue"="Transparent" "IgnoreProjector"="True" "RenderType"="Transparent" } 
    Lighting Off Cull Back ZWrite Off Fog { Mode Off } 
    Blend SrcAlpha OneMinusSrcAlpha 
    Pass { 
      Color [_Color] 
      SetTexture [_MainTex] { 
         combine primary, texture * primary 
      } 
    } 
  } 
}

As an extra bonus, this shader respects the depth test, thus objects in front of the 3DText will occlude it as expected (the original one rendered over everything in the scene!)

3

Use a material with a shader that has “cull back” in it; the default font.shader uses “cull off”. You can make a duplicate of the default font shader and change that.

2

3D Text uses a specific shader that is double-sided. You’d have to change the shader somehow.