Question - Code Fonts cut off

[DukeSoft]

Hey there,

I'm working on a little "phone" within my game, and I'm drawing some fonts in there, on a surface.

Somehow the small letters seem to be cut off. I think @TheSnidr had this issue with some GUI scaling, but I'm not even scaling anything.

Anyone know whats up? (You can see it at the time, it should be 13:41, and the "Connected". Looks like 1 line of pixels is removed :/

 

[DukeSoft]

Here it is without rotation, you can see it better there

 

[TheStolenBattenberg]

This can happen if you're stretching your render target inwards after drawing to it, pixel clipping seems entirely random in GM, it doesn't seem to use any sort of interpolation on scaling.

 

[DukeSoft]

Well, as I said, I'm not doing that. This is a clean game, made a room, made it 1280x720, put object in. No stretching / resizing in any way.

EDIT: If it were the render target stretching I shouldn't see it happen if I'm not drawing on the surface, and if it was the application surface I should see the interpolation happen differently if it rotates. It doesn't It really looks like its just the font.

 

[FrostyCat]

Sometimes the IDE's font glyph cropper does a bad job and clips off part of the character. Go into the project's directory, find the font directory and look at the font's texture sheet. Is the missing part also missing there?

 

[Fern]

Sometimes the IDE's font glyph cropper does a bad job and clips off part of the character. Go into the project's directory, find the font directory and look at the font's texture sheet. Is the missing part also missing there?

I've had the same issue as Duke. It isn't texture page related. It has to do with some changes they made to fonts. For a while fonts were completely disgusting and broken (unreadable may I add), I'm assuming this is a residual issue. I'd recommend filing this as a bug.

 

[DukeSoft]

The PNG's in the font folder look fine:

 

[rwkay]

Have you resized the application_surface at all?? Please check that it is the size you think it should be.

We have seen this recently and it turned out that the application_surface was set to a much lower size than expected and it meant that the GUI layer was being scaled awkwardly.

Russell

 

[gnysek]

If you're drawing scaled text not on surface, it may have edges like this.

 

[DukeSoft]

Thanks for the replies guys. I have not scaled any surfaces initially. The room was set to 1280x720.

Drawing the sprites + text the regular way gives the same effect as drawing on a surface, and then drawing that the regular way.

I've tried adding the surface_resize() on the application_surface and display_gui_set_size() in the create event of the object, with the 1280x720 parameters, but to no avail. I'll see if I can reproduce this and upload the project file.

 

[DukeSoft]

EDIT: Nevermind.

 

[DukeSoft]

Found the solution!

I was drawing my text like this;

draw_set_color(c_black);
draw_rectangle(screenx1, screeny1, screenx2, screeny1+13, 0);
draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_set_font(fnt_phone_small);
draw_text(screenx1+4+13, screeny1+2, "Closizon");
draw_sprite(spr_connection, image_index, screenx1+2, screeny1);
draw_set_halign(fa_center);
draw_text(screenx1+(screenx2-screenx1)/2, screeny1+2, "13:41");

Kind of the same for the "connected" one.

Then I figured it was probably because of rounding issues in the /2 part. So, rounding up those positions of drawing fixed my troubles;

draw_set_color(c_black);
draw_rectangle(screenx1, screeny1, screenx2, screeny1+13, 0);
draw_set_color(c_white);
draw_set_font(fnt_phone_small);
draw_text(screenx1+4+13, screeny1+2, "Closizon");
draw_sprite(spr_connection, image_index, screenx1+2, screeny1);
draw_set_halign(fa_center);
draw_text(screenx1+round((screenx2-screenx1)/2), screeny1+2, "13:41");