@pianofire, Thanks! I also see now that there is a "code" option in the above content choices... dah! : )

@fgalliat : here are shots : init.jpg render.jpg ... thanks again

Yeah me too, I found it in Settings of Switch. I feel like idiot :)

@Doriphor said in Help! Shapes, drawtext(), drawimageex(), createimage() etc.:

@toxibunny Yeah using the center of anything is pretty counter-intuitive.

That depends on what you're making. Generally for games, center-based drawing is convenient. The center of game objects is generally more important than the top-left corner. The center is from where you can calculate the distance to another object for easy collision. The center's where you're most likely to want to rotate and scale around.

On the other hand, drawing with the origin at the top-left is well-suited for UI stuff.

Either way, F4NS provides both options. drawImage features exclusively top-left-centric drawing, while drawImageEx features center-centric drawing by default and an origin parameter that you can use to set the origin of drawing wherever you prefer. Shape objects are center-centric because they're less like drawing calls and more like objects in the game world. They match sprite objects in this way.

@vinicity Hmmm, well that's unfortunate, but not a complete show stopper. However this does make for a feature request. Either have it be the Unicode characters or maybe a function for special keys? Like getkey("backspace") or getkey("escape")

@xevdev Wow :) So you wrote it all by youself! Anyway it looks amazing!

Wow, this is really impressive. The terrain is huge!

Edit: It was interesting glancing through your code and noticing comments like ’is it inside the triangle?’ and ’getting height by by bilinear such-and-such’. Fun to see someone else’s answers to the same things I’ve been dealing with my game, which was mostly inspired by seeing the terrain function and thinking it was cool :)

@toxibunny the interpreter probably at least tokenizes your code. I wouldn't worry about names (but I could be wrong)

Built-in functions also run at native speeds from what I can tell so they can probably also be safely used at will.

@pianofire oh so that's the intended behavior? That's a very odd choice IMO. Thank you!

Gotcha covered!

@AndyG1985 thats great news, i never got to complete it but hopefully il have another chance to :)

Yeah that’s a twin-stick shooter though. It’d be easy enough to swap out the blob models for zombies at least! Slow them down and a quick setCamera() hack and you’d be part way there. The controls would be weird though..

It’s not simple to put 3d on top of 2d, as the entire screen is drawn including the background (There’s no need to do clear() in 3d.). It can be done, just with a few extra steps involved.

I don’t know how normal that is. I’d never done anything with 3d until recently either...

Yeah, the special Switch keyboards I've seen are too small to type comfortably.

About USB C: Does the Switch accept it if you plug an USB-C keyboard directly into its port? It probably does, but to use it when docked, you want to stick to USB-A and use an adapter when in mobile/tabletop mode.

I have this one: http://www.rapoo.com/product/539
I would not recommend it too much.
Good about it:

full sized cursor keys. can also connect to other devices via Bluetooth, three separate ones even. As long as USB and Bluetooth are around, I'll never buy another wireless keyboard without this feature. Well, two Bluetooth devices would do.

Bad:

the cursor keys are stuffed in right between other keys and are hard to hit the keys are a bit wobbly and the initial touch is too soft

Not the keyboard's fault, but still bad:

on the Switch, the number block can't be used in the alternative mode where it has the page up/down keys the wireless connection is not 100% reliable for our TV to couch distance (about 3 m)

So most of the time I use a full sized wireless Dell keyboard. Which I also can't recommend because I can't find it online. And its Bluetooth sync behavior is abysmal.

Soo.. Steve's recommendation looks good if you don't need Bluetooth and can arrange yourself with the half height cursor keys (you better should, they seem to be the norm these days). Could have saved us all a lot of time if I just had said that :)

Thank you that was exactly want I needed. I was over here messing with 30+ lines of nonsense.

@Martin thx a lot!

Revive away! But it's out of my control :D

That is sound advice from @toxibunny !

@vinicity **Yheaa That Looks Great Too **

turns out I made a silly mistake
I did notice a difference (but not really significant), but after that I started experimenting with the colors, and set the text to silver for some reason

so optical illusion seems to be quite right haha