Using Custom Fonts Without Registering Them
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For my 3D Engine I needed to render some text to the screen, I got this to work, quite simply actually using the D3DXCreateFont() and DrawText() functions. Great! Because I wanted to be a bit more original I would like to use my own TTF fonts, but before I could use them I would need to register them with Windows.
Is there a way to Create a font from a path/filename instead from a FaceName?
Also I have another problem. I'm rendering 3 Layers... A Background image, A cursor and the Text... How would I get the rendered text to appear infront of the background image but behind the cursor? The Images are rendered using a textured quad.
Thanks in advanced for anything that could help me out...
Quote:Original post by Quinnie
For my 3D Engine I needed to render some text to the screen, I got this to work, quite simply actually using the D3DXCreateFont() and DrawText() functions. Great! Because I wanted to be a bit more original I would like to use my own TTF fonts, but before I could use them I would need to register them with Windows.
Did you try putting the fonts in the same directory as the executable? I thought that you didn't need to register the font if you did that, since it searches the residing directory for fonts first.
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Thanks! The AddFontResourceEx helpt me out!
The only thing I'm wondering about now is how I could draw something over a Text, since somehow all texts are in the front and all other graphics are in the back :S
The only thing I'm wondering about now is how I could draw something over a Text, since somehow all texts are in the front and all other graphics are in the back :S
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The last past hours I searched the entire SDK and Internet but I couldn't find anything about rendering Textured Quads infront of Texts. Though I've seen it happening in a lot of games. Somehow it must be possible to show my cursor infront of text rendered using the DirectX DrawText function, right?
Thanks in advance.
Thanks in advance.
Quote:Original post by Quinnie
The last past hours I searched the entire SDK and Internet but I couldn't find anything about rendering Textured Quads infront of Texts. Though I've seen it happening in a lot of games. Somehow it must be possible to show my cursor infront of text rendered using the DirectX DrawText function, right?
Did you try making the z-value of your cursor vector close to 0? I remember that I had the same problem once, but I solved it by playing around with small Z-values until it worked out.
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Seems not to be the most "clean" way to solve it, I'll first try using 3D Text that should hopefully solve my problem.
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