Print text rotated 90 degrees in lua?

[Anonymous D]

does anyone know of a way to print text rotated 90 degress right? im making a game in LUA and i want to have the psp turned round to play it, to take advantage of the longer screen length. but this means i need to print the variables "down" the right side. is there a simple way to do this?

sorta like this:

Spoiler!

[drEDN4wt]

well if you use the 3d functions you could print your text to an image, then use the image as a skin for a flat plane and rotate it to whatever you like, even give it perspective, lighting, even reflections supposedly.

Or edit a font script from another app that doesnt use truetype or standard lua fonts , but have the characters rotated 90 degrees

[Anonymous D]

im rly not good on 3d functions, ill look into the true type font thing

ive looked at the ttf example on evil mana and i dont think i rly cvan do it with that, at least not myself, cud you point me in the right directions with the 3D functions? mb its time i learnt them

[drEDN4wt]

look at ttlde as an example....its a text editor...look at ascii.png and rotate it in a graphics program.
then when you understand that bit and get it working, do your own font.

[-Xandu-]

The font thing with truetype is pretty stupid no offence, the text will come out like this:


But yeah, you can print the text to a buffer and then rotate it using the GU.

Note: PM me if you need help with coding, I have no current project in hand.

[Anonymous D]

using the GU?? plz explain to me and yes thats the conclusion i came to.

[-Xandu-]

Here's the link to 3D GU mapping in Lua.

[Anonymous D]

i presume Gum.rotateXYZ might be the thing i need
so can i like...
Gu.start3d()
(normal print command)
Gum.rotateXYZ (rotate text)(though i dont know what format the values go in if any)
screen:clear()

(normal blit functions)

[dangee]

Dont believe it, ur heading for GumsVille less than
a month after arriving at the main() gates of LuaLand!
Wondered if this means the 2d-sidescrollers on its way
to 3d-frontscrollerness...
I found a detailed Gu library guide (funcs,args,func. descriptons)
somewhere not long ago but didnt save the url, so U'd
have to hunt for it,if SUM1 dont post the link.

[Anonymous D]

the only trhing i need to do is rotate the text rly, themamin game is 2d sprites and is basically finished, i just thought itd be cool to have it run "vertically", as you can just turn the psp, but then the text is dodgy.