I think it'd be very neat, at least for Tutorial mode (and possibly the Options menu for rebinding buttons) to have some way of drawing button icons as well. There's only twelve, so making art for them wouldn't be hard:
enum controller_buttons {
NONE, // represents a lack of input, no graphic needed
UP,
DOWN,
LEFT,
RIGHT,
CROSS,
CIRCLE,
SQUARE,
TRIANGLE,
LB,
RB,
START,
SELECT,
};
The tricky parts would be:
Do we append these buttons to the existing font.png?
How do we make draw_text() allow these buttons to be drawn? C-style %U codes? And how do we deal with scaling it since these are unlikely to be the same size as the monospace font we currently use?
Should it be given its own toggle so that level metadata can't use it?
Right now, we can only draw literal text using
draw_text(), and even then only a specific subset of characters:I think it'd be very neat, at least for Tutorial mode (and possibly the Options menu for rebinding buttons) to have some way of drawing button icons as well. There's only twelve, so making art for them wouldn't be hard:
The tricky parts would be:
draw_text()allow these buttons to be drawn? C-style%Ucodes? And how do we deal with scaling it since these are unlikely to be the same size as the monospace font we currently use?