Re: [GD-General] Vector GUIs

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>This has a large number of advantages, and the
>biggest disadvantage 
>is that you can't do real nice pixel/raster
>effects such as the 
>various filters available for Photoshop.  Instead
>they'd have to be 
>described procedurally, which might be considered
>fairly limiting.  A 
>combination of FreeType fonts coupled with vector
>GUI descriptions 
>would seem to allow a great degree of scalability
>while keeping 
>things relatively sane for the artist.

this reminded me...what about things like the 'blending options' that you can apply to layers in photoshop.  these are all applied in 'real-time' and can be setup for fonts that haven't been rasterized, etc...

wouldn't something similar be possible if you used a freetype library, in-game?

just throwin that out ;}

cheers

mike w
www.uber-geek.ca