Imprinted text on a plane

Rozzy85

Is then any easy way to take some text that's been bevelled or whatever and then join it to some plane geometry so it looks imprinted into the surface without having to resort to doing it manually by welding/bridging edges between the letters? There's the function to cut into the object you want the text imprinted on but like usual it resorts in a complete mess that you just can't work with, especially with subdivision.

Rob Macko

is this to bake from high to low poly? if so you could just float them above your plane

Rozzy85

Yes, it is, but I didn't want to resort to floating geometry as it's not so good for generating AO/lighting maps. I think I'll just resort to using something like crazy bump as the results will be much the same for less time/work.