shadow fonts

[squeege2]

:grin:
EH...
Just wondering .when setting up fonts in the charset.ini., is it possible to set the shadow "color" yet. I have looked for documentation on this ,but only found that it may be implemented in the future. Also is there any plan of, a complete set of updated documentation for QMP?

[Tokelil]

Don't know about the shadow thing, but updated documentation was planned to be released along with b112, so hopefully we will get that with the next release.

[Rex_Mundi_Incarnit]

"shadow colour" ... That would be nice but i dont see it being implemented in the near future...

[Paul]

Colored shadows is seemingly a simple request, but I haven't implemented it because it introduces some complication due to the way text is drawn in QCD.

Text is basically an alpha map applied on top of the background with a single color for the text. The shadow is just a manipulation of this alpha map. During drawing of the text the routine can't tell the difference between the 'text' and the 'shadow' - it's all just bits on the same bitmap. So coloring the shadow proves tricky. I'm sure there is a decent solution, I'm just preferring to budget my time for other features.

[squeege2]

:silly:

EH...

Thanks for the great response. I'm currently working on a skin that, if i could color the shadow in the track font, disc font etc., it would help.To work around it though, I set up the track fonts with the color I'd like, gave them a shadow, then colored the fonts, on the buttons, the same with the same shadow and shadow color,so the tracks and the butttons match. Its not really great, but works. I can see why Its hard for the two to be seperated, occupying the same space and all. Thanks again.