Font Cursor Replacement / Fake cursor for menus
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Very nice O Ilusionista! I've used fonts for a lot of in game graphics (alert icons, signs, and other assorted things), but I never thought of a menu cursor.
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O Ilusionista
Wow, nice trick! I'm using fonts as graphics too, but for a long time I'm trying to learn about how modders include cursors in native engine menus. Mystery solved hahaha.
I can add cursors in my custom menus with "drawstring" function, but I never thought about to use it in the translation.txt
Wow, nice trick! I'm using fonts as graphics too, but for a long time I'm trying to learn about how modders include cursors in native engine menus. Mystery solved hahaha.
I can add cursors in my custom menus with "drawstring" function, but I never thought about to use it in the translation.txt
O Ilusionista
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Yeah, is too much better to use fonts for simple purposes instead to load an entire sprite separately. Usually, I let the entire "font10" table reserved only for graphics.O Ilusionista said:Thanks guys. Kratus yeah it works like a charm.
Right now I am even using a custom font for all Brand/Hawkeye weapons, so instead of loading and drawing a sprite, it uses a simple textobject with the custom font
Another question I need to ask is about "textobject" functions, you talked about it before. What this function does? Is same as "settextobject" function? I never used it before
O Ilusionista
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I can confirm that for you guys. Text objects will NOT work outside of a level. They are run as part of the level loop cycle. It follows that if a level isn't running, text objects are not running either. If you want custom text outside of game play, you must use the drawstring functions.
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O Ilusionista
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Damon Caskey thanks for the info. I've tried drawstring few days ago and they work. I will add a note into the manual about this.
Yeah, drawstrings will work anywhere. Incidentally, text objects are really just drawstrings with a wrapper. When you set a text object, you're actually populating a set of reserved variables. When the engine's internal level loop runs, it checks those variables and if they have valid data, it sends them to the internal drawstring() function.
IOW, text objects and the drawstring function both work the same way. Text objects just add the fire and forget convenience and don't need an update script since the engine does it for you.
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IOW, text objects and the drawstring function both work the same way. Text objects just add the fire and forget convenience and don't need an update script since the engine does it for you.
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cool so it works like a custom tileset,.
I guess you can do a lot of stuff with this to represent icons ingame on menus instead of using entities
16*16 font would work nicely and ypu can use ebtire font image for icons only
DC is it possible to make textobject stay in place where entity is, so it doesnt scroll with screen when you move? Thats one thing im missing in textobjects, i thino it needs updatescript ? textobject doesnt reqyire updatescriot but it only scrolls with screen, doeant stay whwn it was spawned like normal entity.
I guess you can do a lot of stuff with this to represent icons ingame on menus instead of using entities
16*16 font would work nicely and ypu can use ebtire font image for icons only
DC is it possible to make textobject stay in place where entity is, so it doesnt scroll with screen when you move? Thats one thing im missing in textobjects, i thino it needs updatescript ? textobject doesnt reqyire updatescriot but it only scrolls with screen, doeant stay whwn it was spawned like normal entity.
nedflandeurse, indeed. Fonts can do amazing things if you leverage them right. This isn't just true in OpenBOR. Using fonts for still graphics (because that's exactly what they are) is one of the oldest tricks in the book. Websites make heavy use of it (including this forum and the one I run at UK). All the small graphics you see are just a font.
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NED
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Damon Caskey said:
Damon Caskey
Yes, I think so.
I remember seeing stage/level preview in mugen as well using special fonts.
Like
A = picture of stage 1
B = picture of stage 2
C = picture of stage 3
...
dantedevil
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Dear friend O_Ilusionista, I just see this .. ;D
Congratulations, it really is something very useful to further customize our mods, thank you very much friend.
Congratulations, it really is something very useful to further customize our mods, thank you very much friend.
O Ilusionista
Captain 100K
dantedevil thanks buddy
nedflandeurse yeah, and screenpacks too. This is how I get a full screen graphic on both mode selections and animated select screen - waaaaay before other people doing it
Digital Brilliance Hour
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this is great stuff! I've been learning a lot from your game actually and it has definitely opened up new ways to do things in the engine.
O Ilusionista
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Digital Brilliance Hour oh thanks for the nice words