Wrap text around a sphere

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• Scouser Guru

  February 2014

  What you are looking for appears to be full 3D-perspective-correct rendering and unfortunately this is not supported. Gideros is a 2D development environment and doesn't support any form of 3D rendering.

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  February 2014

  unfortunately @Scouser is right and it will be very hard (if not impossible) to try to emulate something like that in 2d

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• Dikkesnoek Member

  February 2014

  Hi,
  
  Thanks for your reactions. But is it not possible to bend/scale a Gideros text
  object in a way that you can meet this effect?
  
  I need to place random numbers on a sphere. When you put flat text on top,
  it is not really a 3D sphere anymore.
  
  Regards,
  
  Marc

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• Harrison Member

  February 2014

  it might be boring and repetitive, but perhaps you could make a font to emulate this? Whatever you decide to do, good luck!

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• absinthe Member

  February 2014

  Could you use GIMP to create the ball with the number (easy with paths), make one for each potential number, pack them into a sprite sheet, and just use the one that matches the number you want?
  
  Labor intensive, but maybe if you only have a few random numbers to generate it'd be feasible?

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• OZApps Guru

  February 2014

  @dikkesnoek,
  if you are trying to make an 8 ball, there are two ways to go about it in Gideros
  
  1. Use a font that has the numbers in perspective on a sphere (for 1 digit)
  2. Use pre-rendered images of the ball with the numbers (Unless you want to have multi-colored balls) on the fly.

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• absinthe Member

  February 2014

  Or what if you saved the numbers separately without the ball? You could then lay it out on a ball of any color you wanted using RenderTarget.

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• Dikkesnoek Member

  February 2014

  Hi,
  
  Thanks to all. The numbers must be separated from the ball because they
  will be generated randomly and the numbers can vary from 0 to 1000 for
  example. Also in that case creating a font is also not an option. The spheres
  are easily created with Illustrator. It would be nice if you could form the text
  object on the left and right side like the picture below. I don't know if you
  can treat a text object like a sprite and warp it a little bit.
  
  Regards,
  
  Marc

  

  

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• keszegh Member

  February 2014 edited February 2014

  you just have to generate with illustrator, or whatever you prefer, 31 bitmaps in fact (10 numbers for all positions, but the first is always nothing or 1 if it's between 0-1000), so it is not impossible if you really want it to look perfect. also probably faster then playing further with faking solutions.
  if it always ends with 0 then it is 9 bitmaps less to do.
  
  edit: if you also want them to be symmetrical, then 20 bitmaps for 2-digit numbers and further 30 bitmaps for 1 and 3 digit numbers are needed, plus 1 for '1000' so that would be 51 bmps.

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• Dikkesnoek Member

  February 2014

  Ah, that could be a solution. The bitmaps can be selected from
  an array. I will think about this, thanks.
  
  Marc

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• keszegh Member

  February 2014

  don't think, just turn your brain off and do it. otherwise you will realize how stupid it is to do such a thing by hand (but also i cannot think of a better solution), and probably from now on in every game of yours you will be eager to put a 3d ball with numbers.
  good luck

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• OZApps Guru

  February 2014

  For 4 digits, you will need 4 sets of number = 41 bitmaps, if you want to cheat a bit, you will still need 31. I guess @keszegh has that to say before I could

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• keszegh Member

  February 2014

  @OZApps, and i even got into the top20 with this magnificent post about counting numbers.

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  Fragmenter - animated loop machine and IKONOMIKON - the memory game

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• ar2rsawseen Maintainer

  February 2014

  @keszegh see how awesome your answer was

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• Dikkesnoek Member

  February 2014

  When there are some results, I will let you know.
  
  Have a nice weekend,
  
  Marc

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