Text Rendering Improvement

[Awesome_E]

Old Rendering System:

New Rendering System:

Capability of new Rendering System:

Very ironic, isn’t it?

So why don’t we render text better using the new rendering system? It’s clearly capable?

With lag in collisions being worked on and removed, who would not want to have larger text render clearly? Currently, you can set to about 120% before noticeable quality drops. Let’s change that

• I like this text the way it is.
  
  
• I want text to look more like this.
  
  

Bonus poll:

• I want fonts
• I do not want fonts

[GweTV]

I agree with your opinions

[FearfulRaccoon]

Children
Clean wring and fonts for life

[tankt2016]

Fonts
I love fonts
I could spend 20+ minutes tweaking the font before typing a story
I wish all fonts would show up in Hopscotch

[Petrichor]

What does fonts mean in the bonus poll?

[Awesome_E]

As in you can select what font you want your text in for Hopscotch Set Text or Text objects

[PinkCupcake8]

YES PLEASE this has been driving me mad… the text rendering I mean
It used to be so clean and nice!! And now it goes all fuzzy
I’m working on a project rn and the title screen looks horrible because the main text is blurry but everything else is crisp and clear :,)
Also fonts are A Good Thing yes please to them but YES PLEASE to improved text rendering

[MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE]

Yes! I wish Google Fonts worked, and you could import those font file thingies. Forgot the name.

[Jojo]

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[William04GamerA]

I agree with your opinions and I really miss the old text rendering, I think it could be improved a lot.

[anon19563795]

@Ana could you add this please?

[Awesome_E]

Thanks @anon19563795. Also, I should mention, the new system only allows you to render 40 lines, which can be a big problem for coded stories.

[Awesome_E]

Interestingly enough, it seems that the text rendering has improved very slightly after update 3.38.0 (I think that’s it?) when pinch to resize was introduced to the non-beta editor. But that was pretty insignificant; I’d still like to see the new text render like the old text.

A few key differences being:

1. New text scales poorly (the main one)
2. Limited to 44 lines (I think)
3. Gets cut off when playing if a word is too long
4. We can only use a few Unicode characters. Most of them, like 𝐛𝐨𝐥𝐝 or 𝘪𝘵𝘢𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘴 get split up and can’t change color.

[MISSION_IMPOSSIBLE]

Yes! The unicode characters not working is annoying.

[Awesome_E]

Bump

[PinkCupcake8]

I’m BEGGING you for clean text rendering this is driving me up the wall and seriously limiting several projects I’ve been working on

[GravyStudios]

I agree that enlarged text should not contain rigid, painful-to-look-at, pixilated edges. I like the suggestion!

[RonAstern123]

I dint know why the new rendering system is blurred but its okay, even if its much worser

[Electogenius]

For me, I want more clear and sharp text.

[RonAstern123]

Ya, its kinda good when there is a sharp text :)