I was wondering how I could make a console in a game(full screen). To be specific in a game I'm making I have a ship and I'd like to be able to see the ships coordinates in the top right corner of the screen while the game runs.
How can I make a console in the game?
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How can I make a console in the game?
Linlin425872
Mikey0727
Offbeat,
I implemented something similar to this in a game to track various stats (framerate, position coords, etc). Listed below is the code that I used. You could wrap these functions in a class if you were doing some more complex statistics.
In my object building routine:
// font object creation
D3DXFONT_DESC Descrip;
ZeroMemory( &Descrip, sizeof(D3DXFONT_DESC) );
_tcscpy( Descrip.FaceName, _T("Verdana") );
Descrip.Height = 16;
Descrip.Italic = false;
Descrip.CharSet = DEFAULT_CHARSET;
Descrip.OutputPrecision = OUT_DEFAULT_PRECIS;
Descrip.Quality = NONANTIALIASED_QUALITY;
Descrip.PitchAndFamily = DEFAULT_PITCH | FF_DONTCARE;
// font creation
HRESULT hRet = D3DXCreateFontIndirect( m_pD3DDevice, &Descrip, &m_pFont );
if(FAILED(hRet)) return false;
In my WM_SIZE code:
if(m_pD3DDevice)
{
// reset the device
if(m_pFont) m_pFont->OnLostDevice();
if(m_pCamera) m_pCamera->SetViewport(m_nViewX, m_nViewY, m_nViewWidth, m_nViewHeight, 1.01f, 5000.0f);
Initialize.ResetDisplay(m_pD3DDevice, m_D3DSettings);
if(m_pFont) m_pFont->OnResetDevice();
SetupRenderStates(); }
In my Frame Advance function:
static RECT Rect = { 5, 0, 0, 0};
m_pFont->DrawText( NULL, FrameRate, -1, &Rect, DT_NOCLIP, D3DXCOLOR( 255, 255, 0, 255 ));
I have setup this way, to catch on WM_SIZE message to be sure if the user changes the size of window or switches from fullscreen to windowed that the font gets recreated. Hope this helps. Thanks.
Cale