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Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« on: December 02, 2019, 05:36:26 pm »
New version - new bugs!

I refer to the attached image.
Create a font renderer and his shader.
Do a simple TextOut. Everything is fine as shown by "TEST".

Use the same unchanged Font with renderer and shader with TextOutAngle -
they are not applied. You can see it in the Mickey-Mouse-Style "LAZARUS".

This worked in 9.x

Have not looked for the reason. Perhaps somebody else?

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #1 on: December 03, 2019, 02:16:25 pm »
@circular

I have traced which wrong deviation TextOutAngle takes:

BGRAdefaultbitmap.TextOutAngle; virtual
BGRATextFX.TBGRATextEffectFontRenderer.InternalTextOut 

Here it takes a wrong junction:

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  1. if (FFont.Orientation <> 0) or (not ShaderActuallyActive and not ShadowActuallyVisible and not OutlineActuallyVisible) then
  2.     begin
  3.     inherited InternalTextOut(ADest,x,y,sUTF8,c,texture,align,AShowPrefix,ARightToLeft);
  4.   end else      

The inherited InternalTextOut leads to

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  1. BGRAText.InternalTextOut

where it of course looses the renderer and shader.

So the if condition in above shown code is buggy.
I just replaced it for a test and have set it to false and: renderer and shader apperared,
but no angles - of course.

So please look for this line:

if (FFont.Orientation <> 0) or (not ShaderActuallyActive and not  ......

Or ask George Boole ....

This is the hard way to learn the internals of BGRA!
But the code is easy to read! Good structure!

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« Last Edit: December 03, 2019, 02:20:32 pm by winni »

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #2 on: December 04, 2019, 04:59:56 pm »
Hi

I am not sure it worked before. In my memory, phong shading was never supported with angle.

I think I did not do it because I was not sure it would be used. That would be some new development. Though as I did the same with vectorial text of LazPaint layers, I have an rough idea how to implement it.
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #3 on: December 04, 2019, 05:01:04 pm »
This is the hard way to learn the internals of BGRA!
But the code is easy to read! Good structure!
:D I tried to make a structure as much as possible.
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #4 on: December 04, 2019, 05:14:07 pm »
Hi Circular!

You got a broken memory chip in the brain .... :D

I made the Mickey-Mouse-Style "LAZARUS" summer '19 with BGRAbitmap 9.9.3.
Everything worked fine, renderer and phong were shown as in simple TextOut.
I have updated to 10.6.4 and suddenly it is broken.
So you must have implemented it.

So take a look at 9.9.x - there must be somewhere the solution.

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #5 on: December 04, 2019, 05:16:23 pm »
Broken memory. :D

Ok I will look.

Where is the mickey code?
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #6 on: December 04, 2019, 05:32:28 pm »
Here it is

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  1.    .....
  2. const angle=15;
  3.       top=25;
  4.       name='LAZARUS';
  5.       Ari = 'Arial';
  6. var
  7.    .....
  8.  
  9.      dest := TBGRABitmap.create(300, 80,CSSSkyBlue);
  10.      SetFineFont(dest,[fsBold],55,Ari);
  11.      shader := TPhongShading.Create;
  12.      renderer := TBGRATextEffectFontRenderer.Create(shader,True);
  13.      dest.FontRenderer := renderer;
  14.      shader.LightPositionZ := 80;
  15.      shader.LightSourceIntensity := 250;
  16.      shader.LightPosition := Point(150,0);
  17.      shader.SpecularFactor := 0.5;
  18.      renderer.OutlineVisible := true;
  19.      renderer.OutlineWidth := 2;
  20.      renderer.OuterOutlineOnly := false;
  21.      renderer.OutlineColor := CSSDarkSlateBlue;
  22.      ts := dest.TextSize(name);
  23.      x := dest.width div 2 - ts.cx div 2;
  24.      startx := x;
  25.      s := name;
  26.      
  27. for i := 1 to length(s) do // only ASCII
  28.       begin
  29.        case i mod 4 of
  30.             1,3: dest.TextOutAngle(x,top,   -10,copy (s,i,1),CSSRed,taLeftJustify);
  31.             2:   dest.TextOutAngle(x-7,top+5, +angle*10,copy(s,i,1),CSSRed,taLeftJustify);
  32.             0:   dest.TextOutAngle(x+7,top-5, -angle*10,copy(s,i,1),CSSRed,taLeftJustify);
  33.          end; // case
  34.          x := x+dest.TextSize(copy(s,i,1)).cx-9;
  35.      end;
  36. .....

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« Last Edit: December 04, 2019, 05:39:08 pm by winni »

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #7 on: December 04, 2019, 11:32:35 pm »
Ok. I was more thinking about working code. A project, or something I can just copy and paste as it is.
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #8 on: December 04, 2019, 11:40:35 pm »
@circular

Ok, I'm gonna make you a little demo Project!

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #9 on: December 05, 2019, 12:05:07 am »
@circular

I made you a little demo project - see attachment

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #10 on: December 05, 2019, 07:51:37 pm »
Thanks.

Ok so my memory chip is not so broken. Phong did not work in this case on old BGRABitmap 9.9.3 though it did draw the outline.

I am going to fix this outline and well while I am at it, make the Phong work.
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #11 on: December 05, 2019, 10:03:44 pm »
Hi!

I've fixed on dev-bgrabitmap branch the outline and added phong and shadow support with rotated and outlined text.

Can you have a try?

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #12 on: December 06, 2019, 01:19:08 am »
Bravo circular!

Everything works like it should. Nice rendering an nice phong shade!

But you detect my errors now:

If you apply  a shader and a renderer and then do a textout (without angle) with an empty string you will get an exception with "Path is empty".
I think you should spend somewhere an exit.

So I now find my errors ....

Thanx a very lot!

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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #13 on: December 06, 2019, 06:40:43 pm »
Thanks for the feedback.

I fixed the empty string case.

Thanks for the
So I now find my errors ....
Not sure what you're saying.
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Re: Font renderer and Phong shader not applied in TextOutAngle
« Reply #14 on: December 06, 2019, 08:48:27 pm »
@circular:

Just: without your bug (Empty Path) I would not have dectected my nonsense (TextOut with empty string) !

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