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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!
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
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
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.
The font thing with truetype is pretty stupid no offence, the text will come out like this:
http://i166.photobucket.com/albums/u120/SXandu/TEXT.png
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.
using the GU?? plz explain to me and yes thats the conclusion i came to.
Here's the link to 3D GU mapping in Lua.
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)
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.
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.