Questions tagged [text]
You're reading text right now. Characters representing primarily letters and numbers, usually arranged to present a message.
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How do browsers render text using any font, any modifier (like bold, italic...) so fast?
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I am implementing a 2d renderer using OpenGL and currently working on rendering text.
What I have so far:
you can generate bitmap fonts from given font files (like .ttf). It works by ...
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How to display text dialogue in a RPG using GML Code
I’m currently working on my first ever rpg game, and trying to figure out how to use GML code as this is my first time using the software.
Anyways, any ideas on how to code in-game dialogue? (e.g. ...
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Adding text label to sprite
I'm completely new to Unity. I'm trying to create something similar to Scrabble.
I've simply got a tile as a sprite (red arrow).Firstly, I don't understand it being so small.. I'm trying to give the ...
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How do I play a video in Unity using input text
I'm trying to play a video when a text command is typed.
What I expect to happen is the user inputs "play video 1" in an input text box, and after the command is sent via a button press, the ...
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How to display localized text from the selected language's script file?
I am trying to make a textbox engine for my RPG using Gamemaker Studio 2 as my game engine, and so far I have managed to make a pretty good-looking animation for when the textbox comes in and out. I ...
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How to integrate images into text lines in Unity?
Here are two screenshots from Stellaris, where images are seamlessly integrated into the text. How can I achieve this in Unity?
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In pygame I am trying to add the text as an integer and it keeps crashing, why?
I am trying to convert the string as an integer when I am using the font.render() function but it keeps saying different things like it has to be a unicode or ...
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How to dynamically create an UI text Object in Unity 5?
I have been searching for something that should be simple, but Unity 5's documentation on that is fairly outdated. What I want to achieve is to be able to create UI Text totally from script, i.e. ...
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How to align text dynamically inside a rectangle with Phaser JS
I am just starting to learn the Phaser JS framework with my first game. I did not managed to find a way how i can align text inside a rectangle element dynamically without specific coordinates. Here ...
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Help Me Make Sense of the Canvas and Text-Based Non-UI Objects in Unity
I am trying to wrap my head around the concept of the Canvas in Unity and its many uses especially outside of user interfaces. However, I cannot really find a good tutorial that digs deep enough into ...
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Not being able to display pygame.freetype text
I'm trying to make a game where the player has to dodge asteroids coming, and I'd like to display the lives. I looked up some tutorials and decided to settle on pygame.freetype. When I run the code ...
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Can I disable auto-correct on text fields in Godot?
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I'm working on a word game and I found it kind of nice to use a hidden LineEdit as my text input. I hide it off screen, force focus on it, and then ...
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How can I customize/remove the caret from Input Fields in Unity?
Goal
Change the caret to a non-blinking asterisk.
Description
I'm using the TextMeshPro variant of the InputField, and my Unity ver. is 2019.3.
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Remove Caret
I could remove the ...
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Read actor instance's text variable for widget when triggered on different objects
What I'm trying to do:
(a 'long story version' is linked in comment below)
(and another user example is hyperlinked in comment below - i couldn't post over 8 images and/or links in this first comment*)...
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Change Text - Inside A button, inside a Canvas, inside a GameObject: Access all the texts inside of hierchy?
//....
Gameobject tile;
int count = 1f;
float posX = 0;
float posY = 0;
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GameObject blueTile = (GameObject)Instantiate(Resources.Load("block_blue"));
tile = (GameObject)Instantiate(blueTile, ...
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Unity UI - Value of text input (assigned with OnChange event) is always "one letter behind"
I am having a problem in unity setting up a search field.
I will post pictures down reggarding my problem but first let me quickly explain what is going on.
I have input element in my ui and i have ...
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How can I get what key was pressed in Unity?
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I'm working on a chat that will immediately record input when any (compatible) key is pressed, so I need to record the keys pressed and turn them into a string.
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What is the Unity 2019.3.5 version of `UnityEngine.UI.Text`?
I was following a tutorial on how to create a dialogue Box in Unity, and in one part of the tutorial the tutor imports UnityEngine.UI and creates an object of type <...
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Godot: What options are there for removing the filtering or anti-aliasing from text
If I were to start making a pixel-art game with the Godot engine, what options do I have for removing the filtering or anti-aliasing from text?
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I want to know how to remove the AA from ...
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How to clip cut-off text in a textbox?
I'm writing a textbox class for my XNA game and I'm using SpriteFont to draw the text. It's only a single line textbox so when the text width exceeds the size of the rectangle box, it currently just ...
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LibGDX Letter spacing is reduced if I use GlyphLayout to draw a bitmap font
I need to use glyphlayout so that I can centre the text, but I found if I do the text gets distorted due to the spacing being incorrect.
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How to store and update presentation strings describing effects with parameters?
Consider this spell:
As you can see in my design a Spell is a composition of one or more Effects. An Effect has properties on ...
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Preferred way to render text in OpenGL [closed]
I'm about to pick up computer graphics once again for an university project. For a previous project I used a library called FTGL that didn't leave me quite satisfied as it felt kind of heavy (I tried ...
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Is my game at risk of fines due to CVAA if I don't support text-to-speech in chat?
Looking at a similar game like Among Us: as far as I know, it only has in text chat as a norm of communication. Shouldn't the game be obligated to have more options for disabilities like text to ...
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