"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?" Thanks,
Rich Garry Newman wrote: > 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 > > _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
