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 💯