How to do Text as weight maps?

[ckhallas]

Is it possible to use a text node as a weight map in any way?

[segmoria]

Yes, if you place the Text under a Render to Texture and use this with a Generate Weightmap Deformer and plug this to the deformer’s weightmap input.

Something like this:

[ryan.barth]

Very nice! That should work without the image 2d too - or many with a video null instead.