2009/3/9 James Paige <b...@hamsterrepublic.com>: > On Mon, Mar 09, 2009 at 01:34:08AM +1300, Ralph Versteegen wrote: >> 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 > > Oh my goodness! I think i underestimated how awesome this could be!
I need to draw an example of a font that uses layers for another use I envision: letters which merge together, such as sharing an outline, example: http://rlv.zcache.com/hot_pink_black_text_proud_new_aunt_sticker-p217247054994320869qjcl_400.jpg > Looks like I have a lot of work to do on making gui elements sized > according to font sizes. But what would you do about very tight menus like the items menu, or 38 character strings? My thinking was that we might have to require an at maximum 8x8 font to be provided for use in menus where larger font wouldn't fit, even if the default is something else. I guess it might be possible to instead scan problematic strings in the game (eg item names and descriptions) for excessive length and provide warnings, but it sounds like a lot of work. Variable width font really cuts down on string length nicely. > Do we have gunctions yet to get the height of a given string? Or to get > the height of the font in general? > > --- > James Not yet. I've only assigned a single height value to a font, instead of per-character. However, a string will potentially switch between multiple fonts and contain newlines. We already have xstring for width! Oh yeah, I'll merge (or more likely rewrite) Mike's text controls tag stuff back in soon (r1025, backed-out over two years ago!) But I think I'm meant to be working on my Gameathon entry... _______________________________________________ Ohrrpgce mailing list ohrrpgce@lists.motherhamster.org http://lists.motherhamster.org/listinfo.cgi/ohrrpgce-motherhamster.org
