Extra Parameters for the Text Object?

Some extra features would be nice.

Drop Shadow, Outline, Alias/AntiAlias (individual settings). Some the options Photoshop has for it standard text tool.

You can apply FX to text, and there's always the poor mans drop shadow for text, a duplicate of the text offset and with less opacity.

The current Outline it white and looks messed up when the thickness is too high.

<img src="http://i61.photobucket.com/albums/h53/Sodisna/DO.png">

His Drop Shadow doesn't let you adjust the size of the drop shadow.

There's an fx that does colored outlines, and you can change its width.

http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=7&t=4311&start=0

Here's a cap that shows how you can apply the drop shadow object to a canvas.

It also shows what I mean about using another text object.

Just have to get the z order right.

http://dl.dropbox.com/u/666516/dropshadowtext.cap

its not "messed up", thats just the way it works, 4 offset copies of the main object

if you want thick outlines without that "multiple copies" look through an effect, your only way around it is going to be adding multiple outline effects with a low thickness one after the other.

What about gradient for text?

Ok not all fx will work on text.

Mask fx shows over the whole text box, and gets kind of crazy at runtime.

Perhaps the sprite font, or just prerender something.

I'd use sprite font, but you can't doing thing with it like, like move it around using it's X/Y positions.

I would just go for prerendered. You can go hog wild on the visual, and it still probably wont take up as much memory as an fx.

Prerendered? As in do them in photoshop or something?

What about gradient for text?

Here you are: http://www.scirra.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=7674

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I love you. No homo.

That would explain that strange attraction to Tulimide's avatar.

Anyway, nice idea Tul.

Thanks!

... runs off to experiment.