Suggestion: Font outline/shadow

[Pumaman]

You'll have to disable TTF anti-aliasing to fix this, I'm afraid. There's no easy way to work around it.

[AJA]

Btw, CJ... I noticed this with my credits plugin (I don't know if you're aware of it): DrawText can draw antialiased text onto the screen. So, if you'd just change the way DisplaySpeech etc. works to the way DrawText works we could have antialiased lucasarts style speech.

[Pumaman]

That doesn't work for the same reason as it doesn't on a transparent GUI.

Speech text is initially rendered to a transparent bitmap, which is then drawn onto the screen as necessary. Because of this, the antialiasing makes it merge with the pink transparent area of the bitmap giving the annoying pink edge effect.

[Cerulean]

Have you considered my suggestion? Try rendering it to a background color equal to the chosen shadow color, and then substituting trans-pink for that color.

[Pumaman]

Good idea, but that would of course only work when the font had an outline.

[Ciro Durán]

Good idea, but that would of course only work when the font had an outline.

Mmm, I don't understand why it would need to have an outline, it would be matter of rendering the font to the selected color (Just like rendering to a non-transparent GUI, i.e., the load and save window), and then replacing the background color. (Well, I don't really know if I'm following Cerulean's idea )

[Gregjazz]

Actully, if you're interested in real-time font ouliners, I just finished the beta version of a font outliner as a function.

You can check it out at http://herculeaneffort.myikonboard.com/viewthread.php?postid=50

Have fun!

[TerranRich]

So, have you gotten any good results yet on TTF outlining, CJ? I'd be really interested to see what you came up with.

[Pumaman]

Nope, I haven't got round to trying it out yet.