Another idea is to use a point camera and a monitor. I've used these before. Set up a studio room in your map and make a brush with the stuff you want to zoom. Then make a point camera that is set to capture this content. Then you need to make a vgui material that will be painted with what the point camera sees. This material would be part of your hud. Once you get the material showing the point camera, you can dolly the camera in and out for your effect.
There is a pretty good point camera tutorial on the wiki. I can send you the link later On May 3, 2009 3:52 PM, "Richard Slaughter" <slau...@vault13.co.uk> wrote: Hi List, I'm looking to make a hud element where the text being displayed shrinks down in size smoothly over time. So far I've discovered that DrawSetTextScale only works for Bitmap fonts, which would be nice to avoid so that it will work with the existing ttf fonts that we're using. I'm assuming that changing the font won't yield a smooth enough result, as I'm aiming for a 'zooming out' type effect, so I was thinking that it would be easiest to draw the text on to a surface of some sort, then scale that down over time. Is it possible to do that with a procedural material, and if so can someone point me in the right direction as I can't see how to use any of the text drawing functions in that context. Any other ideas for where I should be looking? Thanks, Rich _______________________________________________ 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
