Using Images for Text?

[scriptless]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

If the only thing you want to do is display numbers then I suggest an image. Especially if it's for graphical effect, where rendering fonts in large sizes can cause a lot of slowdown. Using an entire font just to display numbers is overkill I think.

Basically you know the bomb's, arrow's, rupee's on the current GUI? I am trying to redo the GUI and im needing to draw alot of numbers, couple dozen.

Get's confusing really fast working with that many images. As for fon't size, I think 14x16 pixels per letter is plenty and I will probably not need any larger or smaller font's.

[DustyPorViva]

Originally Posted by scriptless

Basically you know the bomb's, arrow's, rupee's on the current GUI? I am trying to redo the GUI and im needing to draw alot of numbers, couple dozen.

Get's confusing really fast working with that many images. As for fon't size, I think 14x16 pixels per letter is plenty and I will probably not need any larger or smaller font's.

Well the thread I linked already handles everything you asked for

As for using a font, the problem is that I'm not aware of any font format that allows bitmap format with more than 2 colors(font color and transparency).

[scriptless]

Originally Posted by DustyPorViva

Well the thread I linked already handles everything you asked for

As for using a font, the problem is that I'm not aware of any font format that allows bitmap format with more than 2 colors(font color and transparency).

2 colors? Not sure what you mean exactly. I can use 2 color's in font? If so that would work. And transparency? I am confused, wouldnt I just use black and have font color change the color itself? im only curious on how to get the shadow behind the number like state.png kinda does.