40 fonts! Yikes! I'd just move the camera, or render the text to a texture and scale that.
garry On Tue, May 5, 2009 at 9:48 PM, Richard Slaughter <slau...@vault13.co.uk>wrote: > 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 > > <hlcod...@maxsi.dk>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" <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 > >> > >> > >> > > _______________________________________________ > > 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
