Developments

NPA2 is now NPCA, as it finally finds a proper title, "NeonPlat's Cosmic Adventure".

I spent about 5 or 6 hours trying out various programs desperate to find a nice way to get a properly designed logo that would curve around the edge of the planet.
In the end, I did what I usually did, and opted to just do the bloomin' thing myself.

Ingredients
1. BlitzMax
2. Selection of Fonts from 1001FreeFonts.com
3. Code!!!

I wrote a program to grab a font, draw it to the screen, cut out it's filling to leave only the outline, add the same Neon-Blur that my sprites get, then render out the letters to a spritesheet.
Next I grabbed those sprites, popped them into the game engine, and used a bit of maths to position each letter where it was needed.

In the end, it took roughly about an hour, but most of that was spent fiddling with the font renderer tool.
The end result is quite nice, and does exactly the job I wanted.



Why reinvent the wheel? Because sometimes, you just can't find the right sort of wheel!!

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Daily Doodle : Making a Splash

Platdude's trying out his diving technique.
He's managed to advance to the top-most diving board! Wow! So cool!!!

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