Scrolling text

[Fishke]

I have no lua knowledge, but how do you make a simple text scroll to right? Like in sassilization.

[Entoros]

[lua]local multiplier = 5 -- greater multiplier = faster scroll
local width = ScrW() -- the width of hte space which the text will scroll across
local ypos = 500 -- the y pos on the screen, assuming the text scrolls horizontally
local text = "Hello, World!" -- the text to draw
local font = "ScoreboardText" -- the font to draw it in
local textcol = color_white -- the color to draw the font

hook.Add("HUDPaint","DrawScrollText",function()
draw.DrawText(text,font,math.fmod(SysTime() * multiplier,width),ypos,textcol,0)
end)[/lua]

Untested, but a basic example of horizontally scrolling text.

[Fishke]

Big thank you.

[editline]03:38AM[/editline]

Also how to make it so it kind of continues from the other side of your monitor. When the text has scrolled, it just teleports to the beginning.

[Entoros]

I've never tried this before, but I imagine it would work something like this:

[lua]local multiplier = 5 -- greater multiplier = faster scroll
local width = ScrW() -- the width of hte space which the text will scroll across
local ypos = 500 -- the y pos on the screen, assuming the text scrolls horizontally
local text = "Hello, World!" -- the text to draw
local font = "ScoreboardText" -- the font to draw it in
local textcol = color_white -- the color to draw the font

hook.Add("HUDPaint","DrawScrollText",function()
local x = math.fmod(SysTime() * multiplier,width
surface.SetFont(font)
local w,h = surface.GetTextSize(text)
if x + w > width then
draw.DrawText(text,font,(x + w - width) * -1,ypos,textcol,2)
end
draw.DrawText(text,font,math.fmod(SysTime() * multiplier,width),ypos,textcol,0)
end)[/lua]