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Dark GDK / How do I output text at an angle?

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Stucky
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Posted: 25th May 2009 09:27
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Kind of doubt this is possible myself, but I'm wondering if there might be a way to output text at an angle using the commands in Dark GDK?
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Lilith
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Posted: 25th May 2009 16:50
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Do you want the entire text at an angle with the letters still parallel to each other or do you want the letters upright while the text sort of stair-steps up or down?

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Stucky
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I want the whole text at an angle. Just like how it is in this picture.
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Lilith
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This is untried, but can you create a temporary bitmap, write the text to the bitmap, copy it to an image then rotate the sprite used to display the image?

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Stucky
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I don't see why that wouldn't work. I'll give it a try, thanks.
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If you need to update the text in real-time, it will be far faster to create a render target using 'dbSetCameraToImage', and then use 'dbSetCurrentBitmap' with the negative image number. Then whatever you draw will go straight onto the image until you change the current bitmap back to 0. You can use 'dbSetSpriteTextureCoords' to display only a portion of the image. You can use 'dbPasteSprite' to make it not appear above everything else too, and it also means you can reuse the same sprite for all your text.


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