"Glowing" text in Ren'Py? [solved]

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"Glowing" text in Ren'Py? [solved]

#1 Post by Sapphi »

Does Ren'Py support/have a way to implement glowing text?
Once upon a time every kid on the internet loved to abuse CSS to give their text an unreadable glow. Tasteful examples with code: Here and here

So far I've played around with both the "outlines" and "drop_shadow" properties, but I haven't been satisfied. I can make the drop shadow transparent, but it's always crisp and clean. I want it to be blurry like the above example - is there a way to do this?

(It's not the end of the world if there isn't. But it would be pretty cool. :) )
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#2 Post by nyaatrap »

There's no ren'py function which returns blurred displayables. But if you are a python wizard, you can make this function (I thought someone made it somewhere I couldn't remember. Though I rather wish the ATL has blur properties). But it will be applied only displayables not texts.

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The way to do it is to have multiple outlines, with decreasing outline sizes and increasing alphas. Probably something like:

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init python:
    style.default.outlines = [ (3, "#fff4", 0, 0), (2, "#fff8", 0, 0),  (1, "#fffc", 0, 0) ]
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Either that, or making a font that has a blur to it in the image files that are associated with it, but I'd suggest just doing the multiple outlines.
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PyTom wrote:The way to do it is to have multiple outlines, with decreasing outline sizes and increasing alphas.
Ah! Thank you! It works so nicely!
(And it's so obvious I'm embarrassed I didn't realize it...)

But now I have a new problem. To get that nice subtle glow I ended up using twelve 1-pixel outlines. Now, when lines are close together, you can see the outlines before you see the text they belong to. Can I remedy this without spacing the lines farther apart from each other, or is it just a natural consequence of putting a combined 12 pixel-wide outline around my text?
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It's the latter. There isn't a way to fix this currently.
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Thanks again. I'll see what I can come up with keeping this constraint in mind.
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The one thing you can do is to adjust the split between the rows:

http://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html ... t-concerns
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So, how does one apply this to one line of text, while leaving the rest without this outline?

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Haven't tried this myself but I think you need to create a text displayable (https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#Text) and add it to your dialogue. You'd add the outline property to the Text() arguments as PyTom showed above.

You'd then add it with the image tag: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-image

It'll probably take some experimenting.

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kivik wrote: Fri Jun 15, 2018 3:00 am Haven't tried this myself but I think you need to create a text displayable (https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#Text) and add it to your dialogue. You'd add the outline property to the Text() arguments as PyTom showed above.

You'd then add it with the image tag: https://www.renpy.org/doc/html/text.html#text-tag-image

It'll probably take some experimenting.
Can I not use a custom text tag?

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#12 Post by Remix »

You could likely do it by declaring the outlines as a named style and then using inline style tags around the text:

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style outlined_text:
    outlines [ ... ]

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    "{=outlined_text}Some words{/=}"
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Due to the way outlines work, they're kind of an all-or-nothing thing. Either every line has them, or none do.
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PyTom wrote: Sun Jun 17, 2018 11:05 pm Due to the way outlines work, they're kind of an all-or-nothing thing. Either every line has them, or none do.
Is it possible to create multiple outline styles?
One style could be "invisible", so as to hide it, if you can.
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#15 Post by PyTom »

There's an outline color tag, that could be used maybe to hide it (or show it, if it's set to transparent by default). The problem is that the outlines change the size of a block of text in its entirety.
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