Text Acting Like Particles

[mitchellrivett]

When the player gets points, I'd like text to spawn that reads "+x points" where x would vary depending on the amount of points they receive, and fade out shortly after.

My first thought was to use a particlesystem, however Love's particlesystem does not support text. Does anyone know of any alternatives to do this?

[zorg]

you mean besides printing it with either love.graphics.print or love.graphics.printf?

[mitchellrivett]

you mean besides printing it with either love.graphics.print or love.graphics.printf?

Specifically the fading out is what makes using that difficult. The player can potentially get lots of points from different sources in a short amount of time, which would trigger multiple instances of "+x points".

Keeping track of all the values for all the transparency, and motion of the points is a huge pain. The effects I want are easily accessible in the particle system that Love offers, so I was wondering if there is any alternative for text.

[MadByte]

Do your own "Text Particle System".
Here is a basic emitter I just wrote to demonstrate.

(Edit : updated file)

TextEmitter.love

(just smash your left mouse button to see what it does)

Maybe this gives you an idea of what you need to do.

[mitchellrivett]

Do your own "Text Particle System".
Here is a basic emitter I just wrote to demonstrate.

TextEmitter.love

(just smash your left mouse button to see what it does)

Maybe this gives you an idea of what you need to do.

That's exactly what I was looking for! Thank you.

[MadByte]

I just cleaned up the text emitter demo and added basic font support.
Also the usage changed a bit because the previous way to manipulate particle variables wasn't that great.

Edit
I added another method to add a bounce effect to the text. looks pretty cool. Maybe you
can use it somehow.



Demo:

TextEmitter.love

[mitchellrivett]

I just cleaned up the text emitter demo and added basic font support.
Also the usage changed a bit because the previous way to manipulate particle variables wasn't that great.

Edit
I added another method to add a bounce effect to the text. looks pretty cool. Maybe you
can use it somehow.



Demo:

TextEmitter.love

Looking good! Maybe you could put it in the Projects and Demos forum?

[MadByte]

this is not really a big deal. I may put it onto my own homepage