Im working on a 3D text system built on the 'pixies' code that uses the text command on an image buffer then modifies that buffer to do things like multicoloured text/ outlined text/shadowed etc.
The beauty of this is it that there are alot of fonts available ( copyright permitting ) and the code to generate the text is very simple, no messing around with single characters.
Also because it uses a single sprite things like alpha fading are easy to do.
It all began with this wonderful piece of coding =)
http://www.blitzbasic.co.nz/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=773
The beauty of this is it that there are alot of fonts available ( copyright permitting ) and the code to generate the text is very simple, no messing around with single characters.
Also because it uses a single sprite things like alpha fading are easy to do.
It all began with this wonderful piece of coding =)
http://www.blitzbasic.co.nz/codearcs/codearcs.php?code=773