Rendering Lines of Text | Handmade Hero Episode Guide

0:12Recap and plan for the day

2:42What font information should be included in the asset file? Let's write the usage code first

4:35Always write the code you know how to write first

6:06Approaching the text rendering problem writing the usage code first

6:44Our goal is to display the debug timers on the screen

8:44Implementing OverlayCycleCounters

9:56Assuming we have a render_group and the necessary functions to write strings to it

11:57(Aside) Naming the debug counters the cheesy way

14:29The debug code will take care of the location on the screen of the debug strings

16:21Introducing a separate, globally accessible render_group for debug output

18:47Pros and cons of using a separate render_group type

20:16Implementing DEBUGTextLine

24:06Calling OverlayCycleCounters

24:54Setting up the DEBUGRenderGroup

26:17Allocating memory for the DEBUGRenderGroup

27:14Rendering the DEBUGRenderGroup to the output

28:53Using BeginRender and EndRender to reset the graphics push_buffer_size and avoid recreating render groups

31:02Sanity checks to protect against possible mistakes when calling or failing to call BeginRender and EndRender

34:15Setting up the DEBUGRenderGroup to display bitmaps

34:29Configuring the DEBUGRenderGroup to use an orthographic projection

36:03Testing what we have so far

36:51Drawing a line of letters

37:49Advancing to the next line

39:22Implementing DEBUGReset to bring the text back to the first line

41:24Including lower-case letters in the asset file

43:36We have lower-case letters

43:53Special-casing spaces

44:55Moving the text to the top-left corner

46:10Using pixels as the unit for the DEBUGRenderGroup

48:36We can't use the looped live code editing to change global variables

50:53Resetting AtY to a more appropriate position

51:40Resetting LeftEdge a more appropriate position

52:10Testing what we have so far and preview of coming attractions

54:11Q&A

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54:11Q&A

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54:11Q&A

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54:34Kelimion Will you be addressing the subscript, superscript, en-space, em-space and other types of space tomorrow as well?

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54:34Kelimion Will you be addressing the subscript, superscript, en-space, em-space and other types of space tomorrow as well?

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54:34Kelimion Will you be addressing the subscript, superscript, en-space, em-space and other types of space tomorrow as well?

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56:33BrainCruser Will you add edges to the font?

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56:33BrainCruser Will you add edges to the font?

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56:33BrainCruser Will you add edges to the font?

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57:00Renroh What's the difference between making a game in C++ and making a game in Java?

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57:00Renroh What's the difference between making a game in C++ and making a game in Java?

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57:00Renroh What's the difference between making a game in C++ and making a game in Java?

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59:40BrainCruser Yes outlines

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59:40BrainCruser Yes outlines

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59:40BrainCruser Yes outlines

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1:00:06Robrobby Hi Casey, question on the array you typed and pulled out again: u32 char[ ][ 2 ] <-- Is this an array with pairs of u32's? I would have expected u32[ [ ], [ ] ]

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1:00:06Robrobby Hi Casey, question on the array you typed and pulled out again: u32 char[ ][ 2 ] <-- Is this an array with pairs of u32's? I would have expected u32[ [ ], [ ] ]

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1:00:06Robrobby Hi Casey, question on the array you typed and pulled out again: u32 char[ ][ 2 ] <-- Is this an array with pairs of u32's? I would have expected u32[ [ ], [ ] ]

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1:00:22Doing arrays in C

1:06:27Reading C declarations

1:13:26insofaras Will you implement colored text, and would the color info be embedded in the text itself like Quake used to use ^1 for red?

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1:13:26insofaras Will you implement colored text, and would the color info be embedded in the text itself like Quake used to use ^1 for red?

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1:13:26insofaras Will you implement colored text, and would the color info be embedded in the text itself like Quake used to use ^1 for red?

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1:14:08cubercaleb Do programmers actually use that crazy array semantics that you just showed off?

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1:14:08cubercaleb Do programmers actually use that crazy array semantics that you just showed off?

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1:14:08cubercaleb Do programmers actually use that crazy array semantics that you just showed off?

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1:15:05insofaras You didn't answer the bit about how if the color info would be embedded in the text as control codes or not

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1:15:05insofaras You didn't answer the bit about how if the color info would be embedded in the text as control codes or not

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1:15:05insofaras You didn't answer the bit about how if the color info would be embedded in the text as control codes or not

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1:16:41Implement colour code parsing

1:20:21BrainCruser In some object oriented languages things can become that complicated

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1:20:21BrainCruser In some object oriented languages things can become that complicated

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1:20:21BrainCruser In some object oriented languages things can become that complicated

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1:20:29noxy_key Would printing text to a separate bitmap background be easier than putting it straight on top of the game background?

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1:20:29noxy_key Would printing text to a separate bitmap background be easier than putting it straight on top of the game background?

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1:20:29noxy_key Would printing text to a separate bitmap background be easier than putting it straight on top of the game background?

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1:20:42insofaras Nice, that was very quick to implement

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1:20:42insofaras Nice, that was very quick to implement

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1:20:42insofaras Nice, that was very quick to implement

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1:20:50Vavassor How about a 2D array of function pointers? Might have been why a few of those variants didn't compile because it thought you were declaring a function pointer array (*Foo)

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1:20:50Vavassor How about a 2D array of function pointers? Might have been why a few of those variants didn't compile because it thought you were declaring a function pointer array (*Foo)

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1:20:50Vavassor How about a 2D array of function pointers? Might have been why a few of those variants didn't compile because it thought you were declaring a function pointer array (*Foo)

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1:21:01IxNoxidexI Around how many more episodes until the switch from software rendering to hardware rendering?

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1:21:01IxNoxidexI Around how many more episodes until the switch from software rendering to hardware rendering?

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1:21:01IxNoxidexI Around how many more episodes until the switch from software rendering to hardware rendering?

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1:21:23cubercaleb Can you rotate and transform the text?

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1:21:23cubercaleb Can you rotate and transform the text?

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1:21:23cubercaleb Can you rotate and transform the text?

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1:22:57Implement font scale code parsing

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