Hello,
I need to draw text with a semi-transparent background that look exactly like the HUD. But I can not use DrawMultipleHUDText() for that, because it's super slow (I need to draw a lot of text entries).
I'm now using a GeClipMap to draw the text, then I get the clipmap's bitmap, and use BaseDraw::DrawTexture() for the actual drawing. Still, to get the semi-transparent background of the HUD, I need a proper alpha channel. Using GeClipMap::SetPixelRGBA() does not help, since the GeClipMap is not able to return a BaseBitmap with alpha channel.
The next thing I tried is using bitmap->AddChannel(true, true) to create an alpha channel. I then iterate over all pixels in the bitmap, and set values to the alpha channel depending on the pixel values in the bitmap. The values are being set correctly, I checked that, but in the viewport there seems to be only "visible" and "invisible", no semi-transparency. Of course, I use DRAW_ALPHA::NORMAL in the DrawTexture() call.
The only thing that gives me semi-transparency is using DRAW_ALPHA::FROM_IMAGE. But then the alpha is depending on the actual pixel colors in the bitmap, and I couldn't find any color that would give me the exact HUD look. It is fast, though, much faster than DrawMultipleHUDText().
Another problem is that the text does look almost perfectly like the HUD (close enough at least), but only on computers with retina screen. On computers with low-res screens, it looks washed out and blurred. That is, if I use DRAW_TEXTUREFLAGS::INTERPOLATION_LINEAR. Using DRAW_TEXTUREFLAGS::INTERPOLATION_NEAREST makes the text look broken, as if it had been scaled down. But I don't scale it, it should be drawn exactly in the right size (see me using the bitmaps width and height for the texture vertex coordinates).
Here's the code for texture creation:
BaseBitmap* MyClass::CreateTextBitmap(const String &text, const Vector &textColor, const Vector &bgColor, Float bgOpacity, Int32 margin)
{
// _clipmap is a member of MyClass
if (!_clipmap)
{
_clipmap.Assign(GeClipMap::Alloc());
if (!_clipmap)
return nullptr;
}
// Dummy draw, just to get the text dimensions
if (_clipmap->Init(0, 0, 32) != IMAGERESULT::OK)
return nullptr;
_clipmap->BeginDraw();
Int32 width = _clipmap->GetTextWidth(text) + margin * 2;
Int32 height = _clipmap->GetTextHeight() + margin * 2;
_clipmap->EndDraw();
_clipmap->Destroy();
// Begin actual drawing
if (_clipmap->Init(width, height, 32) != IMAGERESULT::OK)
return nullptr;
_clipmap->BeginDraw();
_clipmap->EndDraw();
width = _clipmap->GetBw();
height = _clipmap->GetBh();
_clipmap->BeginDraw();
// Background. Fill clipmap with a rectangle, overpainting possibly existing text
// Drawn with alpha = 255, because this alpha value just defines the transparency of the drawn color over the background.
// The actual background alpha is set later.
const Int32 backgroundColorR = (Int32)(bgColor.x * 255.0);
const Int32 backgroundColorG = (Int32)(bgColor.y * 255.0);
const Int32 backgroundColorB = (Int32)(bgColor.z * 255.0);
_clipmap->SetColor(backgroundColorR, backgroundColorG, backgroundColorB, 255);
_clipmap->FillRect(0, 0, width - 1, height - 1);
const Int32 backgroundOpacity = (Int32)(bgOpacity * 255.0);
// Text
// Drawn with alpha = 255, because this alpha value just defines the transparency of the drawn color over the background.
_clipmap->SetColor((Int32)(textColor.x * 255.0), (Int32)(textColor.y * 255.0), (Int32)(textColor.z * 255.0), 255);
_clipmap->TextAt(margin, margin, text);
// Make corner pixels transparent (looks more like HUD then)
_clipmap->SetColor(0, 0, 0, 255);
_clipmap->SetPixel(0, 0);
_clipmap->SetPixel(0, height - 1);
_clipmap->SetPixel(width - 1, 0);
_clipmap->SetPixel(width - 1, height - 1);
_clipmap->EndDraw();
// Get bitmap from clipmap
BaseBitmap *bitmap = _clipmap->GetBitmap()->GetClone();
if (!bitmap)
return nullptr;
// Iterate over pixels, set the actual alpha values
BaseBitmap *alphaBitmap = bitmap->AddChannel(true, true);
if (!alphaBitmap)
return nullptr;
alphaBitmap = bitmap->GetInternalChannel();
if (!alphaBitmap)
return nullptr;
for (Int32 y = 0; y < bitmap->GetBh(); ++y)
{
for (Int32 x = 0; x < bitmap->GetBw(); ++x)
{
UInt16 r = 0, g = 0, b = 0;
bitmap->GetPixel(x, y, &r, &g, &b);
if (r == backgroundColorR && g == backgroundColorG && b == backgroundColorB)
bitmap->SetAlphaPixel(alphaBitmap, x, y, 255 - backgroundOpacity);
else if (r == 0 && g == 0 && b == 0)
bitmap->SetAlphaPixel(alphaBitmap, x, y, 0);
else
bitmap->SetAlphaPixel(alphaBitmap, x, y, 255);
}
}
return bitmap;
}
And this is the code I use for drawing:
void MyClass::DrawRect(BaseDraw *bd, BaseBitmap *bmp, const Vector* padr4, const Vector &color, DRAW_ALPHA alphamode, DRAW_TEXTUREFLAGS flags)
{
if (!bd || !bmp || !padr4)
return;
// Vertex normal array
static const Vector vnadr[4] = {
Vector(0.0, 1.0, 0.0),
Vector(0.0, 1.0, 0.0),
Vector(0.0, 1.0, 0.0),
Vector(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)
};
// UV coordinate array
static const Vector uvadr[4] = {
Vector(0.0, 0.0, 0.0),
Vector(1.0, 0.0, 0.0),
Vector(1.0, 1.0, 0.0),
Vector(0.0, 1.0, 0.0)
};
// Color array
const Vector cadr[4] = {
color,
color,
color,
color
};
bd->DrawTexture(bmp, padr4, cadr, vnadr, uvadr, 4, alphamode, flags);
}
And here's the code that starts everything inside my SceneHook plugin's Draw() call:
// Set draw matrix to screen space, prevent drawn elements from being lit
bd->SetMatrix_Screen();
bd->SetLightList(BDRAW_SETLIGHTLIST_NOLIGHTS);
String valueText = FormatNumber(123.45, FORMAT_METER, 25);
BaseBitmap *valueTexture(CreateTextBitmap(valueText, Vector(0.9), Vector(0.25), 0.2, 2));
const Float valueTextureWidth = valueTexture->GetBw();
const Float valueTextureHeight = valueTexture->GetBh();
const Vector textPadr[4] = {
textUpperLeftCornerPos,
textUpperLeftCornerPos + Vector(valueTextureWidth, 0.0, 0.0),
textUpperLeftCornerPos + Vector(valueTextureWidth, valueTextureHeight, 0.0),
textUpperLeftCornerPos + Vector(0.0, valueTextureHeight, 0.0),
};
const Vector hudTextColor = bd->GetParameterData(BASEDRAW_HUD_TEXTCOLOR).GetVector();
DrawRect(bd, valueTexture, textPadr, hudTextColor, DRAW_ALPHA::NORMAL, DRAW_TEXTUREFLAGS::INTERPOLATION_LINEAR);
Any help would be very appreciated. As I said, the only goal here is just to have a function that draws text with semi-transparent background into the viewport that looks exactly like the HUD, just faster.
Cheers,
Frank
Maybe the SDK team knows some details?