A.D.A. Amiga Demoscene Archive

hi all.

for example i have 640x480x16bit screen and some background. (here is no any custom chips code, only system friendly)

So, i want to do draw on this background some text (of course with no 'delete' part of backgorund). But want draw fast, full screen per frame.After it i want to do this:

1. fast scroll of this text per string.
2. fast fade in/out of full pages of this text (like as excess09 by mawi).

Well.. how i can do it by system funcs ? So, in other words, i want to know how i can load my font (like xen) and scroll it fast over my background ?

I know somethink about this:

SetAPen(window->RPort, 2);
SetDrMd(window->RPort, JAM1);
Move(window->RPort, 100,10+o);
Text(window->RPort, words, strlen(words));

But is too slow..

any help and ideas are welcome :)

well, no one ?:) it is unpossible ?

I found somethink about 'freetype2' engine "ttengine.library", it ported for os3/4/mos. i check examples for it, but it looks like a bit slow .. Someone maybe already use it ? It possible to do fast scroling/fading over it ?

Maybe you can do it by calling OpenGL functions. This would obviously limit your possible user-base but you don't seem to care about this in the first instance.

yes.. after some tests with ttengine.library and base system funcs i think best way it just use warp3d/minigl for rendering text to textures as graphics .. but interesting, how realise in excess09 fade of text areas ?