AaronWizardstar

You mentioned that units have a set of stats that never change. Is there any type of advancement (automatic RPG-style, new equipment, heart container collection, buying upgrades with gold/credits/cash, etc.)?

Does initiative effect both the order units go in and how often a unit acts?

Making the faster units do less damage and the slower units do more damage seems to be a fairly common balancing trick.

Multi-attacks combined with being able to attack twice in a turn may need some consideration.

 

if it doesn't work try replacing with "(cValue & (128 >> (x & 7))) != 0"

That turned out to be the code to use. My final code looks like this:

GLubyte *imgBuffer = new GLubyte[glyph->bitmap.width * glyph->bitmap.rows * 4];

int pitch = abs(glyph->bitmap.pitch);

for (size_t y = 0; y < glyph->bitmap.rows; ++y)
{
    for (size_t x = 0; x < glyph->bitmap.width; ++x)
    {
        int imageIndex = (glyph->bitmap.width * y) + x;
        for (int i = 0; i < 3; ++i) // R, G, and B
        {
            imgBuffer[(imageIndex * 4) + i] = 255;
        }

        unsigned char *byteRow = &glyph->bitmap.buffer[pitch * y];
        char cValue = byteRow[x >> 3];
        bool filled = (cValue & (128 >> (x & 7))) != 0;

        // A
        if (filled)
        {
            imgBuffer[(imageIndex * 4) + 3] = 255;
        }
        else
        {
            imgBuffer[(imageIndex * 4) + 3] = 0;
        }
    }
}

Where imgBuffer is my final RGBA texture data (the fonts are sharing texture space with the sprites).