Well the title says it all, I want to build a chat system where the screen will be the home to the output. More or less just like what SuperAnx's Decandence has.
I'm using DMIFontsPlus, and am not too sure how I should go about it, so it'd be great help if someone can help me out.
P.S: I'm posting here after having multiple attempts at it, and failing multiple times.
Code Snippet's would be appreciated.
-- Qubic
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 Nov 19 2010, 7:28 am
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Nov 19 2010, 7:33 am
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This library has been pretty helpful for me. I'm not on my home computer right now, but I'd imagine dynamically creating an image could create the desired effects as well.
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Unless BYOND had some fairly powerful and optimized image manipulation techniques, in terms of chatting and generating the letters, that would be a rough hit to the server cpu. Maybe however if you generated and cached the images it would not be too bad.
There was many requests before for fonts directly on the map. DirectX has this type of support built in, if it were chosen to be used. Maybe it could be revisited in the future? | |