newEmbrossedTest stroke size

Solar2D General Questions/Discussion
#1

Embrossed Test has a bit of of a stroke on it. how could I increase it?

#2

Unfortunately, you can’t.

But that said, our embossed text doesn’t actually use a “stroke”.  It renders the same text bitmap twice.  The “back” text is rendered slightly offsetted onscreen and blended with an opposite color (if top text is bright, back text is rendered dark; if top text is dark, back text is rendered bright).

You can reproduce this same effect by creating 2 text objects via display.newText() and offseting the back text any way you want.

#3

shame theres no build in way to do this

#4

https://github.com/ponywolf/strokeText

#5

Thanks I implemented it.

#6

Unfortunately, you can’t.

But that said, our embossed text doesn’t actually use a “stroke”.  It renders the same text bitmap twice.  The “back” text is rendered slightly offsetted onscreen and blended with an opposite color (if top text is bright, back text is rendered dark; if top text is dark, back text is rendered bright).

You can reproduce this same effect by creating 2 text objects via display.newText() and offseting the back text any way you want.

#7

shame theres no build in way to do this

#8

https://github.com/ponywolf/strokeText

#9

Thanks I implemented it.