2009/3/8 Ralph Versteegen <teeem...@gmail.com>: > 2009/3/8 <subvers...@hamsterrepublic.com>: >> teeemcee >> 2009-03-07 07:04:11 -0800 (Sat, 07 Mar 2009) >> 1392 >> Complete text rendering rewrite. Adds fonts: >> -A font can be one or two layers. The bottom layer is drawn first for the >> whole string, then the top one. This is to let shadows and effects like >> edgeprint for neighbouring characters overlap. Edgeprint now draws a string >> twice instead of 5 times. >> -Each character can be a variable width >> -Each sprite for each layer for each character can be any size, placed in >> any position relative to the character, and use 256 colours. So you can add >> huge graffiti like tails and things which extend all over the place. >> >> There are two fonts currently loaded for each game: the base game font, and >> the game font plus edges. To try out new font features at the moment need to >> use hardcoded fonts, modify setfont. font_loadbmps is there for this. >> >> The font code is incomplete, eventually it should have more support for >> palettes and colour manipulation, multiple fonts, and font effects like >> shadows and gradients. >> >> I also changed the way Frame masks act. 0x00 is now transparent and 0xff is >> opaque, instead of the other way around. masks are also now optional for >> transparent blitting using draw_ohr. I believe there are only two places >> where they are actually needed: enemies fading out, and scaled blitting >> (sprite_draw). Everything else could now be changed to use half as much >> memory. However, fonts are the only thing taking advantage of this at the >> moment. >> --- >> U wip/allmodex.bas >> U wip/allmodex.bi >> U wip/common.bas >> U wip/common.bi >> U wip/udts.bi > > Example, a small (2x6 to 6x6 per char) monochrome font I quickly drew, > lowercase letters only: > http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/smallfont.png > To use it, unzip > http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/smallfont.zip > to executable directory and modify setfont. >
More fun stuff: http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/sfont1.png http://tmc.castleparadox.com/ohr/bigfont.png _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
