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- Nullpersona
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Scratcher
17 posts
How to print text?
Sorry, this is probably one of the most basic things to know, but how do you print text? Not say or think, but just print characters. Thanks for your help.
- awesome-llama
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Scratcher
1000+ posts
How to print text?
There are a couple of ways you can render text.
You can create costumes for every letter and stamp or clone them onto the screen. You could also use pen and draw lines onto the screen to write all the characters.
It's up to you with which one you want to do.
Cloned text:
Stamped text:
Pen lines:
I won't go into detail for how you can make one youself because I have no idea what you want.
I will link to some searches you can have a look at though:
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=text%20engine
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=text%20renderer
You can create costumes for every letter and stamp or clone them onto the screen. You could also use pen and draw lines onto the screen to write all the characters.
It's up to you with which one you want to do.
Cloned text:
- limited to 300 characters due to the clone limit
- poor performance, it is slow to create clones and update them.
- somewhat difficult to learn how to do it correctly
- good quality text, sharp as all the other sprites
- able to make use of the effect blocks
Stamped text:
- no limit to the amount of characters
- good performance, renders quite fast
- easy to learn
- stamps are part of the pen layer which is low resolution and behind all sprites
- able to make use of the effect blocks
Pen lines:
- no limit to the amount of characters
- very fast to render
- customisable due to the pen blocks - set colour, stroke size, etc.
- may be complicated and hard to learn
- pen layer is low resolution and behind all sprites
I won't go into detail for how you can make one youself because I have no idea what you want.
I will link to some searches you can have a look at though:
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=text%20engine
https://scratch.mit.edu/search/projects?q=text%20renderer
- Nullpersona
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Scratcher
17 posts
How to print text?
Thanks. While I was hoping there was a simple solution native, in a way it is a relief that it wasn't something obvious I missed.
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