A shadow effect on the text

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1

I came across a video on youtube, the text printed had a photoshop shadow effect, how can this be done with the ; text(“Hello World !”) example in Codea ?..

2

@kendog400 Don’t know exactly what you’re looking at, but here’s an example of what looks like shadow text.

function setup()
    str="hello world"
    fontSize(30)
end

function draw()
    background(255, 186, 0, 255)
    fill(0)
    text(str,WIDTH/2,HEIGHT/2)
    fill(255)
    text(str,WIDTH/2-2,HEIGHT/2-2)
end
3

This is a follow-up to the fine answer by @dave1707.

I wanted to play around with the parameters a little and get a sense of the actual bounding box, so I moved the text to one corner.


function setup()  
    parameter.text  ("gString"  ,"hello, great world!")
    parameter.number("gOfsPct"  ,0,100,2)
    parameter.number("gFontSize",0,100,50)    
    parameter.watch ("gTextArea")
end

function draw()
    background(192)
    
    fontSize(gFontSize)
    w,h = textSize(gString)
    gTextArea = string.format("width=%g,height=%g",w,h)
    
    local ofs = gOfsPct * gFontSize / 100
    fill(128); rectMode(CORNERS); rect(0,0,w+ofs,h+ofs)
    
    textMode(CORNER)
    fill(0);   text(gString,0,0)
    fill(255); text(gString,ofs,ofs)
end
4

@skral Nice job modifying the program. That’s a great way to learn how to do different things.