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Now that's what I'm talking about. I assume the background color to that is set with context's SetColor() so we can have transparent or any color?

 

Now if you can figure out a way to have the font size be more dynamic because when dealing with different resolutions you'd want different font sizes. Maybe we can determine small/med/large font sizes that this uses or something? I've always thought the font style and the size shouldn't be tied so closely like it is as style is 1 thing and size you'd want more dynamic based on the screen resolution.

By default the background will probably just be transparent. In this case, I am using a script that draws a full-screen rectangle at a random color. I was using this to test the partial screen refreshing, so when you move the mouse over the button in the top-left corner, only that widget's area gets redrawn.

so now we can render text onto anything 3d?

so now we can render text onto anything 3d?

You could before. But yeah, the same GUI will work on 3D panels and things in the game world. You'll just have to set the input manually based on screen picking. A widget script will work the same in a windowed application, a game menu, or an interactive menu in the game world.

 

I'm just going to implement the framework and some basic controls, and I'll let the community extend it however you like.

Mind blown! This is amazing. I always liked Doom3 style interactive menus.

Yey, this is cool if we can do Draw* on textures instead of just context.

You could before.

But we could already you say? how?

But we could already you say? how?

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10311-drawing-dynamic-material-on-models-and-similar/#entry76089

 

and similarly, my attempt at one point of doing decals prior to them being implemented in LE4:

Mack, I think you misunderstand, I want to draw text to a texture. DrawText() is context command which is not a part of Render(), I think?

Show me how to draw text onto a texture using DrawText(), decals are not text.

shadmar his first example does that. It draws the fps on the sides of rotating cube.

Well, yeah its not part of Render - but thats why you draw to a custom buffer/texture then apply it to a model. But its the exact same concept. There really is no difference between drawing a 2D image vs 2D text onto a model. My "decal" is not a LE decal. I was drawing on the texture/buffer being applied to the model as the video shows in the upper left hand corner. But after Josh put out his LE4 decals there was no reason to continue with it. And the first post I showed is a way to perform it. Apply the drawn text in a custom buffer as a texture to a material.

Sorry I missed :

Buffer:SetCurrent(self.mybuffer)

before doing context, I see what you did here. Thanks for the example. I didn't know you could do this.. awesome.

 

Edit: had a chance to run it, works great and I updated your example script slightly.

IMO It's not fair to say that drawing to a texture is a current feature of LE since the Buffer class isn't documented.

I've just added a code that uses shaders and buffers to create a custom texture... http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/topic/10311-drawing-dynamic-material-on-models-and-similar/#entry100219

IMO It's not fair to say that drawing to a texture is a current feature of LE since the Buffer class isn't documented.

 

http://www.leadwerks.com/werkspace/page/api-reference/_/buffer/buffer-r914

 

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