Eniko FoxRE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116279471062633993
ok this might be a zany ass idea but... what if... 320x200 but with 2 pixel tall dither as a stylistic choice? eh? eh? eh? :D
i have 3 iterative functions here:
1. gets the next word (spaces/newlines count as a 1 character "word")
2. wraps words iteratively, recording width, max width, and height
3. uses the wrapping function to get the next word, then draws it 1 character at a time
it's quite a clean implementation
Alice Averlong🏳️⚧️@eniko I'm always grateful for simple font formats!
Kirtai 🏳️⚧️
sobkas
Alex R
Brian Swetland@eniko I'm having flashbacks to Pixmap files when learning X11 programming in the mid-90s...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X_PixMap
Matt Lacey@eniko games it's a pet hate of mine when games write out text a character at a time but only wrap once a word has gotten too long, making it jump from one line to the next. This is so much cleaner!
RedGlow
Jari Komppa 🇫🇮@eniko bacon ipsum > lorem ipsum. imho. =)
Ronflaix@eniko Perfect! How are you managing wrapping?
EDIT: Wait, I suppose you're just not showing the text, right? It's formatted once and you just unroll it?
@Ronflaix i made an iterative wrapText function that goes word by word (spaces/newlines count as words) and which detects when a word goes over the wrap width, and bumps it to the next line
and then i made an iterative typewriter function that draws the text one character of a word at a time and which advances the wrapText iterator when it's done rendering the word
@Ronflaix yeah i actually did the "lay it out once" thing in C# way back when but this seemed cleaner
that way i can also use wrapText to measure the full width+height of text by just iterating until it's done and reading the max width and height properties of the iterator
@Ronflaix oh right i also have an iterative function that gets the next word, which the wrapText function uses
so really its 3 iterators deep but that makes it sound more complex than it really is >_>
@eniko Yeah, it's generic but I see the design and if it makes the actual code flow easier, why not?
I suppose you also select glyphs variants on the fly? Positional variants, ligatures and all the bells & whistles too? :D
Skyboy Games@eniko I love text jumping as an example of one of those tricky little implementation details that game players take for granted.
ROTOPE~1 ⭐️@eniko holy shit, computing the wid
width of a word before you sta
start drawing it? Inconceivab
Inconceivable!
width of a word before you sta
start drawing it? Inconceivab
Inconceivable!
abby 🐝
Y⃒̸̷̝̜̙ͥͥͥngmar@eniko Yeah, that's much more readable 👍
🌈 Andrew ☄️@eniko I like it 💯
Nini
the elder sea@eniko I like the second one.
Whatisgoingon@eniko looks good.
Matt Jordan
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Tacitus 🇮🇪 
Purdy
@eniko Looks great to me.
ManMachineVery cosy, sort of like tapestry
Laura
SlippiHUD@eniko Looks good
Joakim Hagdahl@eniko I'm curious if they did this in Amiga art. It feels like it. I think it works for this art too
alina cyborg mouse 
Eric Billingsley@eniko I like it a lot. Has a more organic look than the standard checker board and reminds me of the texture of canvas.
aeva@eniko 1) I really like the style, 2) it looks really good with that CRT filter, and 3) I'm impressed that this CRT filter doesn't moire when scaled in my browser which is often the case with CRT filters that people apply to pixel art. I'm wondering now if that's because of dithering or something else. It looks really good when scaled down slightly such that the scanlines almost wash out, which makes me think this would look great with super sampling or such.
@eniko I'm also wondering how well it holds up in motion with the video encodings typically used for streaming and youtube. I want to get the CRT look in some of my own projects without the usual downsides of CRT filters.
@aeva you might want to check out @JoshJers 's cathode retro https://cathoderetro.com/
i'm pretty sure you can turn off stuff like the shadow mask, which should help, just keeping the color bleed
this is what we used for kitsune tails and i was super happy with how that turned out
Josh JersildRE: https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@eniko/116065363439434334
@aeva i'm not sure, since i didn't make the CRT filter. this is just this application https://mattiasgustavsson.itch.io/crtview
it's also not the final version since i had to use a different filter for dosbox, which looks more like this, although that image is significantly lower res