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Sytze · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 10 Location: The Netherlands

Hey everybody on this forum Cool

Im writing a game and it's almost done Very Happy

I can't really discribe the game, but it's a simple game Razz

I am doing this just to get into programming again. More games might follow if I got some inspiration for a new game.

I'll post the link here soon.

Jayenkai · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 11:33 am Post subject:

Hurray!
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Sytze · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 10 Location: The Netherlands

I'm almost done, just doing the finishing touch now.
But now I need your help for one thing. Very Happy

I want to use a nice digital clock font for the score.
So I wrote 0123456789 in photoshop with that font. And saved it.

Now how do I use this font to draw the score?

Something with SetClip, I have already wrote some lines. But it didn't work. I guess it should be something like this:

Jayenkai · Posted: Sun Oct 11, 2009 3:42 pm Post subject:

If you think of the image like so...

[0][1][2][3][4][5][6][7][8][9]
^x=0, x=8, x=16, x=24, x=32, etc..

So, to draw a 0, the part of the image you're drawing is..
n=0
area = ((n*8),0,8,8);

To draw a 1
n=1
area = ((n*8),0,8,8);

etc, nice and easy.
(assuming they're 8x8, of course)

But that's on the image, instead you want to work backwards, because you're not cutting out of the image, you're instead cutting out the inverted area of the screen!

This is kinda like a hole in a plastic sheet. You draw under the plastic, so the right image shows inside the hole..

setclip(x,y,8,8);
is your hole in the plastic

You then draw the image, taking it back enough so that the set-clip hole shows the right number through it..

drawimage x-(n*8),y
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Sytze · Joined: 30 Sep 2009 Posts: 10 Location: The Netherlands

Hmm thanks Very Happy

That will work.

I'm pretty much done now. Maybe tomorrow I will add the font code.

Thanks again Smile