Genocide Engine Adventures: New Text Rendering Functions

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Published on September 15, 2021 5:44:08 PM ● Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IxksRybx99Y

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Genocide (1992)

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I'm about to begin work on dialog functions which involve subtitles.
So I've been working on a way more advanced text drawing function for the engine. It supports the drop shadow, border, left/right/middle alignment, boundary borders, word wrapping and mid-word splitting depending on the length, loading the strings via either .TXT files, sections within binary files or ram, and from single lines (split with \n), scrolling.
It also caches all the string modifications into a temporary list and only rebuilds the cache once scrolling, width or height is changed. Saving tonnes of CPU cycles (well the result is probably unnoticeable unless your computer is like 20 years old). Regardless this should help the game run on retro computers hopefully.

Anyway, these functions will be used for LOADS of purposes in the engine. Examples will be subtitles, Inventory item text, reading notes/books in game (kinda like oblivion or deus ex lol), popup hints, dialog selections and more!

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