Posted: 6th Sep 2011 2:51
Thanks for the app.

To get the characters to align with the subimages.txt coordinates I've had to open the png file in Photoshop and move the layer up 3 pixels. If I don't move the layer up I'm seeing the bottom of the characters from the line above in my text, similar to Rich's screenshot above.

Also, what do the Offset options do? In Beta 3 the two sliders are inactive and the one you can amend (near the drop shadow options) allows you to set it as 1 to 10 but I can't really see any difference between 1 and 10.

A really useful feature would be to export to a layered PSD or similar format file so that we can add styles and textures and then save as PNG. But that aside it's a nice app and saves manually trying to replicate the ascii.png file in the SmackIt directory.
Posted: 8th Sep 2011 14:58
At the moment I've got little to no time to work on this, so don't expect any updates before next week.

As you noticed, the coordinates in the subimage file are a little off at times. It is strange that the selected font colour does not apply. I'll look have into that.
Exporting to PSD is an interesting idea, although I'll have to check how complex that format is.

With the new rendering method, the next version will also have a completely different UI. There are several more effects planned for the future. These include more options for the drop shadow, outlines, textures, and reflections.
Posted: 20th Sep 2011 23:17
This is extremely helpful! Thank you!

I'm not sure if I am doing something wrong, but I cannot display any special characters, like ! or +. Everything else is fine, do I need to do anything differently to display special characters? My code is:

+ Code Snippet
Arial = LoadImage("Arial.png")
SetTextDefaultFontImage(Arial)

Text = CreateText("!+")
SetTextSize(Text, 26)
SetTextPosition(Text, 100, 100)


Many thanks.