Font love needed? about wiicoverflow HOT 15 CLOSED

I'm a fan of tt.  If we use tt; i'd reccomend using the one plaat already 
uses... no
since reinventing the wheel.

I used bitmap fonts b/c its what grrlib supported out of the box; and i didn't 
care
about text when i was trying to just get it working... 

With that said; I do not want to implement ttf, but if someone else wants to 
i'd love
to see it in. :)

Yeah TTF would be a huge improvement! Helvetica (apple's font) or Arial would 
really 
be a big improvement over the bitmaps...

If TTF is added, you could always use the "Continuum" font if you want to give 
it a
more Wii-feeling font, or the font used could be added as an option between a 
few
different fonts.

I'll give it another integration try... last night it wasn't working because of 
the
existing changes we had made to GRRLib and our 2D/3D painting. If we overhaul 
that,
we could probably get TTF working.

Oh, and I thought the Apple Finder/Coverflow font was Lucida Grande.

Yikes "Overhaul" i dont like the sound of that.

I set up the GRRLIB library so taht you could switch back and forth between 
rendering
2D and 3D

ALl you need to do prior to rendering ttf font is call:

GRRLIB_2D_Init();

Sorry, overhaul was too strong a word. It's just that I'm trying to figure out 
the
multiple drawing layers. 

So can we can switch back and forth between GRRLIB_2D_Init() and 
GRRLIB_3D_Init()
before Render()?

Like this pcode

2DInit()
   // BOTTOM LAYER
   // draw the background gradient texture
3DInit()
   // MIDDLE LAYER
   // draw the covers
2DInit()
   // TOP LAYER
   // draw the title, buttons, slider, etc
Render()

Should this sequence work?

I would think so

How are TTF Fonts coming?

I hope to have time to look at this today

Font love is definitely needed now everything else looks so beautiful. Good 
luck with
this afour98

Font love complete as of R215... I gave up on the TTF and decided to hand craft 
my
own tileset. Feedback please!

can you compile R215 and ill tell you what its like... got a nice 32inch 
widescreen 
screaming for a better font...

Font looks good; I have one suggestion...

On the load page where long names get cut to "Name ...", we should have the 
name 
slowly scroll (Like in Itunes...)

Other than that, looks great :)

Thanks... and the scrolling is a really cool idea!!

I still would like to pursue TTFs which would help solve the length issue that 
the
monospaced bitmaps give us, but fist I wanted to get some immediate polish into 
the
app...

I'd like to close this one out, and then reopen a new one specific to adding 
TTF as a
future enhancement. I think we can ship with these fonts for now.