That's pretty hacky and expensive, avoid that solution. You should use text drawing functions. Try changing the size of the font (and color?) very fast, then it will seem rather smooth.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Steve Henderson" <steven.j.hender...@gmail.com> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com> Sent: Sunday, May 03, 2009 10:06 PM Subject: Re: [hlcoders] Smoothly shrinking text on the HUD > 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 > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
