That's essentially what I was asking how to do, any pointers on where to look for drawing to a texture instead of the hud?
For now I've created an array of 40 fonts that descend in size which is reasonably smooth, but I'm still open to ideas. Thanks, Rich Paul Peloski wrote: > @Steve: I would not use the camera solution because it's doing the same > thing (rendering to a texture and scaling it) but in an indirect and map > dependent way. > > @Jonas: I would not use the vgui text drawing functions because every font > size/style combination you get a handle for caches a lot of bitmaps for the > glyphs in the font from what I can tell. > > I would just render your HUD element (fonts and all) at a higher resolution > than you need, to some texture, then render the texture on the HUD at > whatever scaled size you want. It won't look perfect because of the > anti-aliasing on the fonts, but it might look okay. Worth a shot. > > Paul > > On Sun, May 3, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Jonas 'Sortie' Termansen > <[email protected]>wrote: > > >> 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" <[email protected]> >> To: "Discussion of Half-Life Programming" <[email protected] >> >> 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" <[email protected]> >>> >> 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 >> >> >> > _______________________________________________ > 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
