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From: yaroze@theburrow.co.uk (Barry & Robert Swan)
Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics
Subject: Re: User defined fonts
Date: Sun, 20 Jun 1999 18:44:34 GMT
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advenutere game has a text handling routine already done. Mine is
slightly different to the others. ( i think)

I parse the text string once, and use moveImage to copy each letter
one at a time from their original location to a part of vram
designated as the sentance sprite. 

This is good, as it means that processing is only done once, after
that I just have to draw one sprite to get all my text on screen, thus
avoiding slowing the game down every frame by an inordinate amount,
although there is still a time 'spike' during the one frame when it
gets processed. I meant to avoid that by processing a maximum of 4/5
characters (or one wordc) per frame, which would look nice as you
would see the sentance getting written on screen...

Off the top of my head, I think its in font.c/h or text.c/h in the
adventure game zip file on my web site
www.netyaroze-europe.com/~middex2

On Sun, 20 Jun 1999 12:28:43 +0100, "Rikki Prince"
<netyaroze@rprince.dircon.co.uk> wrote:

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>So in basic terms, that would be the same as using one big sprite with the
>font in, but rather than work out the .u and .v as you display the string,
>you work them out to start with and stick them in an array, or even an array
>of GsSPRITEs? Cool, really cleans it up, doesn't it!
>
>Thanks
>Rikki
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