Beginner's Guide to Game Programming Ep1 Part 6-A Drawing Text in Allegro 4

[THEFEDERER1992]

MAKECOL function can u plj expalin lylte bit more...................as m screen color is not changing using this feature?? help plj:)

thanku

[satomassao]

@LusikkaMage Hmm... what are the other fonts that are included to use?

And how adjust the font size?

And... is it better to use such functions or use something like "letter image sheets" ?

[LusikkaMage]

@satomassao Never learned to use other fonts in Allegro, lawl.

[cplusplusgamer]

Do you have the images for pick-it-sticks?

I really don't want to have to draw them.

[LusikkaMage]

@cplusplusgamer if you go to OpenArt dot Moosader dot Com, there is a decent amount of graphics to choose from so you don't have to draw your own.

[lapidations]

Hey Lusikka/Rachel, I've a doubt about texts in Allegro, how do I make a "carriage return"? In ordinary printf in C writing "\n" worked, but in allegro the only way I found to do that is by making another printf. Can you help me? Thanks for the tutorial, as I said in other comment, it changed my life ^_^

[LusikkaMage]

@lapidations I'm not sure if you can, I never looked into it.

[PrawdaUnia]

What's wrong with dentist thing?

[LusikkaMage]

@PrawdaUnia Dentist thing?

[PrawdaUnia]

@LusikkaMage At the end of the video there's an image saying "Advertsed at my dentist office. Lets NOT go here, mmmk?" what's that?

[LusikkaMage]

@PrawdaUnia Oh. Well if you don't know what Goatse is, I would not suggest randomly Googling it. Instead, Google "Know your meme Goatse" if you want to know what it is.

I swear I'm not weird, it was just a prank floating around the internet. I was exposed to it when I was 12. :P

[MoonWerewolf]

are the any other way to display text with int in?

[Donutslayer7]

these are great! but, um, everything is in episode 1?

[LusikkaMage]

Episode 1 is "Makin' Pickin' Sticks". It covers basic graphics, input, sound functions with specific libraries.

The next episodes I'm planning on covering how to make a Shmup, Platformer, and maybe an small RPG with Lua.

These will be less library-specific and more technique/theory-specific.

[Donutslayer7]

that was a fast reply! okay, just wanted that to be cleared up =) looking forward to more tuts

[LusikkaMage]

Oke. Keep keepin' the world safe and slayin' them donuts!

[FallenTAL]

Thanks for this rachel! :D

[MasterLucas92]

Isn't allegro a little old? I would pick SDL instead of allegro anyday since it is a lot more versatile.

[LusikkaMage]

That's why I have an SDL and Allegro version. Allegro is still a pretty good library, it just depends on what you want to achieve and what your goals are.

Btw, C++ is pretty old in and of itself.

[dks71]

Thank you.You are really a very good teacher. :)

[spyderhex]

hahaha the toon self image is awesome. props.

[TheReasonWhyGuy]

Nice series, its amazing how similar the structure of C++ is to Gml.

Makes me Hopeful for my transition to C++ use, Thanks ^-^

[TheFinalFanatic]

Yea, if ya look at some C++ code with no graphics library, its basically exactly the same :)

[lightsabermaster0]

Dang you are working

Keep it up:)

[asib12]

Great series :)