Text blinking after updating to latest Trial version

[Risse]

I used to develop using a version from the GitHub couple of months ago. Now I noticed that you have released the full source code. Awesome! I updated the code and was pleasantly surprised that everything seemed to work okay

But I have a problem updating a IgeFontEntity.

So in the old code, I have a IgeFontEntity that is updated on every tick. I just use the basic text()-function to update the text (so like ige.client.someText.text('new text');)

I now updated the code and it still works, but the text blinks a lot. It feels like every second tick the field goes empty and it comes back.

Is there anyway to make the text change more performant?

[foolmoron]

I get the same thing.

[coolbloke1324]

Thanks for letting me know, that definitely sounds like a bug. I'll look at the font class and see if I can reproduce the issue.

[foolmoron]

By the way, from what I've found, it's a caching issue.

Go to IgeFontEntity.js and comment out line 19 to disable font caching, and it renders smoothly. As for why caching makes it blink, I don't know, but if someone needs a quick fix, try this. Shouldn't hurt your performance too much unless you've got text everywhere.

[foolmoron]

Speaking of font entities, I noticed that textAlignY doesn't work at all. Looking at IgeFontSmartTexture.js, textAlignX is implemented, but textAlignY is not. I tried a really simple solution similar to how textAlignX is handled, but that didn't look right. I'm guessing it's slightly more complicated to do vertical align.

[coolbloke1324]

I think this is due to the cache not being re-rendered on the same frame as it is updated so there is a single frame of blank render.

I am working on a fix now...

[coolbloke1324]

This bug is now fixed in the latest dev branch version v1.2.2@13-10-05.002 available to premium license holders.