Scrolling Text

Let’s experiment with scrolling text. A bit of thrashing but a fairly decent object emerges. Wednesday Afternoon The basic idea is that dungeon messages will be displayed on the main screen, starting in some reasonable place and scrolling upward for a while and then vanishing. So, hm, how might we do that? We’ll have to experiment, but … I guess there will be some kind of text buffer with lines of text. We won’t worry about word-wrapping or anything fancy, at least at first and probably forever. There will be some Y coordinates where the text will start and where it will finish. It might be that we should use a separate camera so that the dungeon can be scrolled while the text is drawn and scrolled differently. I think there is even a UI kind of text box but that may not be just the thing. I think I”ll begin with a simple text line in mid-screen. Thursday Morning At the point above, much experimentation ensued, associated with much frustration and a modicum of curseration. I stopped…