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Fonts && Sprites

Started by David_Jones Sep 2, 2005 at 8:07 PM 1 reply 550+ views

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Sep 2, 2005 at 8:07 PM

Has anyone managed to get the whole rendering to sprite thing with the ID3DXFont -> DrawText method working? If you specify NULL for the first param it draws straight to the buffer, but you're supposedly meant to be able to specify a sprite in that parameter that it'll render to, which speeds up the rendering process. I've tried handing it a sprite, and using the normal sprite rendering function...get a blank sprite...anyone got some working code for this?

Dave Hunt

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Dave Hunt

Sep 2, 2005 at 11:41 PM

When you give ID3DXFont a sprite to use for rendering, it renders to the screen using the sprite, it doesn't render to the sprite. You should not follow the DrawText with a sprite render, otherwise you'll just draw over the rendered text.

David_Jones

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David_Jones

Sep 3, 2005 at 5:56 AM

Thanks so much, that made sense all of a sudden. For others' benefit...create the sprite, then when rendering text, call it as follows...

pSprite -> Begin (D3DXSPRITE_ALPHABLEND);
pFont -> DrawText (pSprite, ....
pSprite -> End ();

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