| RE: [AD] translucent fonts |
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AGL doesn't support truecolor fonts because the assumption was that
fonts are either monochrome, or 8-bit palettized. If someone can tell me
how trucolor fonts are supposed to be recognized and dealt with, I can
add AGL support for those.
Finally, I don't really like vtable changes to support translucency;
it'll make AGL support that much harder, mainly because AGL *also* needs
to hack the vtables to make fonts work :/
> -----Original Message-----
> From: alleg-developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx [mailto:alleg-
> developers-admin@xxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Elias Pschernig
> Sent: Thursday, January 05, 2006 7:00 AM
> To: alleg-developers@xxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: [AD] translucent fonts
>
> On Thu, 2006-01-05 at 04:41 -0700, Thomas Fjellstrom wrote:
> > On Thursday 05 January 2006 04:50, Elias Pschernig wrote:
> > > Maybe the attached patch is interesting, it allows to do something
> like
> > > in this screenshot:
> > >
> > > http://allefant.sourceforge.net/allegro/translucent.png
> >
> > I really like this. Allong with what Evert said, won't this make the
> rendering
> > even slower? Especially on video bitmaps? It really looks nice, but
can
> we
> > see some "Useless Benchmarks"(r)?
>
> Of course it will be slower, it uses draw_trans_sprite instead of
> masked_blit to draw the glyphs (so according to the test program, i
get
> only 42000 instead of 56000 blits / second).
>
> But then, I'll really be using this with colored AllegroGL
> texture-fonts, and there it will have the same speed, just look much
> better. For black fonts like in the screenshot, AllegroGL already can
do
> anti-aliasing with grayscale fonts and the right OpenGL blending mode,
> but I couldn't figure anything out for truecolor fonts - so that's why
I
> made this patch :)
>
> --
> Elias Pschernig
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