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Bindings - other languages => DotNet => Topic started by: MarthKoopa on July 29, 2013, 08:41:36 am

Title: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: MarthKoopa on July 29, 2013, 08:41:36 am
Tried all kinds of different fonts, font sizes, locations, and even versions up to 2.1... but font never looks good.

Is there something I'm missing?
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: Laurent on July 29, 2013, 09:43:17 am
Can you show your code, as well as a screenshot of the blurry text?
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: cpolymeris on July 29, 2013, 11:56:30 am
Quote from: MarthKoopa on July 29, 2013, 08:41:36 am
Tried all kinds of different fonts, font sizes, locations, and even versions up to 2.1... but font never looks good.

Is there something I'm missing?

It happened to me when I started using SFML: I tried using a [-1, 1] view, and loading e.g. 0.5 size fonts. Make sure to load large fonts (30 "pt" at least) and scale them down if necessary. That's because fonts are textures, not vector-based.
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: Laurent on July 29, 2013, 10:30:23 pm
Ok, it seems to be related to issue #228 (https://github.com/SFML/SFML/issues/228).
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: zsbzsb on August 07, 2013, 02:35:28 pm
Quote from: MarthKoopa on August 07, 2013, 06:07:42 am
Have been trying this but it's not making them much better.  Still not displaying clearly.

Be sure when you scale down that your texture has smoothing set to true.
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: Jebbs on August 08, 2013, 06:34:05 am
Quote from: MarthKoopa on August 08, 2013, 06:14:30 am
I'm not seeing an option for setting a smooth option on text or fonts?

You apply it to the texture instance your text is using, not to the font or text themselves.

http://www.sfml-dev.org/documentation/2.0/classsf_1_1Texture.php#a0c3bd6825b9a99714f10d44179d74324
Title: Re: How do I get text to look good? It's always blurry
Post by: Laurent on August 08, 2013, 08:05:04 am
Forget about the smooth option, it is not applicable to fonts/texts.

All you have to know is in #228.