Paul Green
Member
I've scoured the forums, I've scoured google, and I'm coming to the conclusion that shaders (which I don't know how to make) are how I'll have to go.
I'm looking to have some text on the screen, with each pixel line of text being a colour, and being able to cycle through them, like the old school demos a lot of us saw back in the day. (I'd specify the colours, to give me the copper bar effect, I believe Amiga's called it copper and C64's called it raster)
I've tried various commands with the draw_text_ext, colour, transformed and all those commands from the help files, tried even putting two objects on top of each other, and I was going to use the gpu_set_blendmode and put it on subtract, write the text to the object on the top 'thinking' it would have cut out the text, and I could have drawn lines of colour of the object below and see it through the text cut out, it was wishful thinking.
Are there any shaders already out in the wild that I can copy, obtain, use, to help me get this effect I desire. I'm in the process of 'cloning' an old game from the 80s and part of the game has that effect as you are entering your name on the high score, so I'd like to get it as close as possible.
Oh, if anybody is interested in the game I'm cloning, it's view-able/downloadable at
https://pjg-developments.com/?page_id=923
I'm looking to have some text on the screen, with each pixel line of text being a colour, and being able to cycle through them, like the old school demos a lot of us saw back in the day. (I'd specify the colours, to give me the copper bar effect, I believe Amiga's called it copper and C64's called it raster)
I've tried various commands with the draw_text_ext, colour, transformed and all those commands from the help files, tried even putting two objects on top of each other, and I was going to use the gpu_set_blendmode and put it on subtract, write the text to the object on the top 'thinking' it would have cut out the text, and I could have drawn lines of colour of the object below and see it through the text cut out, it was wishful thinking.
Are there any shaders already out in the wild that I can copy, obtain, use, to help me get this effect I desire. I'm in the process of 'cloning' an old game from the 80s and part of the game has that effect as you are entering your name on the high score, so I'd like to get it as close as possible.
Oh, if anybody is interested in the game I'm cloning, it's view-able/downloadable at
https://pjg-developments.com/?page_id=923