COLOURED TEXT in KOS HOW?

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 11:39 am

Well ive got sick of white is there a simple function to turn the text printed to the screen with kos to new colours as if i change the background screen colour

the text allways has black colour around it and thats just annoying

(around the text the screen colour does not change)

thanks ive not seen the colour of the text changed in kos yet

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 4:50 pm

Hmmm, you just recolor the quad the text is textured onto. That's why all of the textured fonts are defaulted to white, because it won't distort the color of the quad.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Sun Feb 09, 2003 7:24 pm

OK thanks toastman give it more of a look!

BlackAura · Post by **BlackAura** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 9:29 am

If you're rendering to the framebuffer, it's harder to change the colours. It's much, much easier to load the font as a texture, and draw each letter as a quad. If you load the texture as something that has an alpha channel (ARGB4444, ARGB1555), loading the font data into the alpha map and having the colours as all white, you can draw each letter as a transparent quad, and change colours.

I think KOS has some functions to do all that somewhere, but I never use them.

toastman · Post by **toastman** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 10:29 am

Parallax and dcplib do.
It's pretty simple to do with KGL as well.

reaper2k2 · Post by **reaper2k2** » Mon Feb 10, 2003 12:00 pm

Interesting have to have a go at this . Im rendering to the framebuffer so that prolly why ive this much trouble ...

any one got a example bit code rendering to the framebuffer as a new colour

print one letter on the screen would be fine in the meantime im going to try write one thanks guys for the reply's