The resolution range method (after the annoying tweaking) works beautifully.
Thanks again Tony! -Skyler On Sat, Jan 24, 2009 at 5:18 PM, Olly <[email protected]> wrote: > Would be useful to be able to scale vector fonts (would look better than > bitmap scaled), but I guess it makes sense. > > 2009/1/24 Tony Sergi <[email protected]> > >> You can dynamically scale bitmap fonts.. but not TTF. The point of TTF is >> that they have different pre-set sizes. I suppose you could render text off >> into a rendertarget and then scale it to however you want though, but then >> it may end up 'fuzzy'. >> >> -Tony >> >> -----Original Message----- >> From: [email protected] [mailto: >> [email protected]] On Behalf Of Olly >> Sent: January-24-09 9:00 AM >> To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming >> Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Resizing font.. >> >> Is it not possible to have dynamicly scaled fonts then? >> >> 2009/1/24 Tony Sergi <[email protected]> >> >> > You add new entries, and set the resolution range. >> > >> > >> > -Tony >> > >> > -----Original Message----- >> > From: [email protected] [mailto: >> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Skyler Clark >> > Sent: January-23-09 9:46 PM >> > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming >> > Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Resizing font.. >> > >> > Thanks, I tried that and it's looking better. Right now I'm just using >> > a proportional one-- how would I actually specify the sizes for the >> > different resolutions in the ClientScheme.res file? Or did you mean >> > just make new fonts for each resolution? >> > >> > -Skyler >> > >> > On Fri, Jan 23, 2009 at 9:38 PM, Tony Sergi <[email protected]> >> > wrote: >> > > Edit your scheme res file and add different scales for different >> > resolutions. >> > > >> > > >> > > -Tony >> > > >> > > -----Original Message----- >> > > From: [email protected] [mailto: >> > [email protected]] On Behalf Of Skyler Clark >> > > Sent: January-23-09 6:00 PM >> > > To: Discussion of Half-Life Programming >> > > Subject: [hlcoders] Resizing font.. >> > > >> > > Hopefully this is a really simple question. I'm using text in my HUD >> > > but it's too big. I tried to use DrawSetTextScale but it says it can't >> > > do that on non-bitmap fonts. >> > > Before I made it proportional by changing it to GetFont(name, true), >> > > it was just the right size but obviously didn't scale with the >> > > resolution. Now it's too big, and I don't know how to make it smaller. >> > > >> > > >> > > Here's the code: >> > > >> > > m_fntNumbers = pScheme->GetFont("HudNumbersGlow", true); >> > > >> > > ... >> > > >> > > int value = 5; >> > > >> > > surface()->DrawSetTextColor(211,67,207,255); >> > > >> > > wchar_t unicode[3]; >> > > >> > > if (value < 10) >> > > swprintf( unicode, L"0%d", value ); >> > > else >> > > swprintf( unicode, L"%d", value); >> > > >> > > surface()->DrawSetTextFont(m_fntNumbers); >> > > surface()->DrawSetTextPos(x, y); >> > > surface()->DrawSetTextScale(0.625f,0.625f); >> > > surface()->DrawUnicodeString( unicode ); >> > > >> > > ... >> > > >> > > >> > > Thanks guys. >> > > >> > > -Skyler >> > > >> > > >> > > p.s. If this message gets sent to the list twice I apologize, the >> > > first time it says it bounced because I sent it from the wrong email. >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > > >> > > >> > > _______________________________________________ >> > > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > > >> > > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> > please visit: >> > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> > >> > >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, >> please visit: >> http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders >> >> > _______________________________________________ > To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please > visit: > http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
