Vertical text?

[Klaes4Zaugen]

If I wanted to draw some vertical text in a HUD, how would I make the text do that?

[MysteryPancake]

Newlines?

[Klaes4Zaugen]

No, spacing

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[lua]draw.DrawText("P\nl\na\ny\ne\nr\ns\na\nl\ni\nv\n", "PRS_TDM_HUD_playersAlive", 960*wMod, 18*hMod, Color( 255, 255, 255 ), TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER, TEXT_ALIGN_CENTER );[/lua]

[MysteryPancake]

Do you mean the spacing is too much? I could do a quick spacing-fix, hang on...

[rtm516]

Split all the characters of the string up and use a for loop and the surface library to get the height draw the char and increment the y poz

[Klaes4Zaugen]

[QUOTE=MPan1;50495789]Do you mean the spacing is too much? I could do a quick spacing-fix, hang on...[/QUOTE]

Yes, compared to normal text, there's a lot of spacing between the characters with newlines

[MysteryPancake]

Try this:

function DrawVerticalText( text, font, x, y, col )
	surface.SetFont( font )
	surface.SetTextColor( col )
	local prevh = 0 -- previous height
	for i = 1, #text do
		local w, h = surface.GetTextSize( string.sub( text, 1, i-1 ) )
		prevh = prevh + h - 3 -- change the -3 to make the spacing bigger or smaller
		surface.SetTextPos( x, y+prevh )
		surface.DrawText( string.sub( text, i, i ) )
	end
end

It just splits the string up and draws a different character for each letter in the string, hopefully it'll do what you want it to

[editline]11th June 2016[/editline]

Lol, this does exactly what rtm516 says, sort of ninja'd

[editline]11th June 2016[/editline]

Also, if you wanted the text to be drawn centered on the x axis:

function DrawVerticalTextCentered( text, font, x, y, col )
	surface.SetFont( font )
	surface.SetTextColor( col )
	local prevh = 0 -- previous height
	for i = 1, #text do
		local w, h = surface.GetTextSize( string.sub( text, 1, i-1 ) )
		local actualw, actualh = surface.GetTextSize( string.sub( text, i, i ) )
		prevh = prevh + h - 3 -- change the -3 to make the spacing bigger or smaller
		surface.SetTextPos( x-actualw/2, y+prevh )
		surface.DrawText( string.sub( text, i, i ) )
	end
end