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Wednesday, 18th of November 2020, 15:09:28 UTC
16:34:28
Shinmera
selwyn: fwiw I ripped out the fond stuff from trial. Not all of it is deleted yet, but the dependency is gone
16:34:40
Shinmera
my thinking now is that text drawing should be left up to something like Alloy
16:36:02
Shinmera
also new demo snapshot on steam
19:57:09
selwyn
i won't get to work on anything for the next few days
19:58:30
selwyn
will play the demo though
19:58:55
selwyn
can you give a quick rundown of how text is drawn atm?
21:07:42
Shinmera
Simple provides a Text shape, which is implemented by either the fond or msdf backend
21:08:09
Shinmera
those then implement a render method that translates the text and other properties into gl commands to render stuff
21:09:16
Shinmera
in Kandria I'm using the msdf backend, yes
21:09:22
Shinmera
The alloy-examples use fond still
21:09:28
Shinmera
(because we can't generate the atlases yet)
21:09:37
Shinmera
err, the atlases for msdf
21:31:26
Shinmera
It's currently pretty frame taxing to do large texts since it re-uploads the text data every time it's drawn rather than caching a vbo
21:31:53
Shinmera
I'm not sure yet what I want to do about that, since Alloy does not have a good protocol in place for stuff that requires explicit memory management
Thursday, 19th of November 2020, 3:09:28 UTC