[01 Oct 2011] Antialias Text Transparency Lost with Shadow

[PEB]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 01 Oct 2011 00:34:26 -0000

Hi Andreas,

Here's an interesting effect (which you may already know about). Please test the following code:

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@DISPLAY {Color=#WHITE, Layers=True}
SetFont(#SANS, 64, {Engine=#FONTENGINE_INBUILT})
SetFontStyle(#ANTIALIAS)
SetFontColor(ARGB(128, #RED))
TextOut(0, #CENTER, "This is a test.", {Name="TestLayer"})
WaitLeftMouse()
SetLayerStyle("TestLayer", {Text="This is a [shadow=$99000000,2,#SHDWSOUTHEAST]SHADOW[/shadow] test."})
Repeat
	WaitEvent
Forever

Where the shadow is added, the text transparency is lost; but this only happens when the font style is set to #ANTIALIAS.

[airsoftsoftwair]

Note: This is an archived post that was originally sent to the Hollywood mailing list on Sat, 01 Oct 2011 12:40:31 +0200

Hi Andreas,

Here's an interesting effect (which you may already know about). Please test the following code:

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@DISPLAY {Color=#WHITE, Layers=True}
SetFont(#SANS, 64, {Engine=#FONTENGINE_INBUILT})
SetFontStyle(#ANTIALIAS)
SetFontColor(ARGB(128, #RED))
TextOut(0, #CENTER, "This is a test.", {Name="TestLayer"})
WaitLeftMouse()
SetLayerStyle("TestLayer", {Text="This is a
[shadow=$99000000,2,#SHDWSOUTHEAST]SHADOW[/shadow] test."})
Repeat
	WaitEvent
Forever

Where the shadow is added, the text transparency is lost; but this only happens when the font style is set to #ANTIALIAS.

Yes, I already know of this problem. This will be fixed with the next version of Hollywood because this will feature a major redesign of the layers system.