This is a quick tool I've written for generating credits screens ahead of time instead of using the text() function again and again in Processing.
It takes in a credits file (credits.txt for example) and a config file (credits.xml) and generates an image (credits.png) which you can then use.
Not fancy by all means but useful for someone like me. 😅
This isn't a project I'm gonna be spending a lot of time on. Unless there's a bit more demand. We'll see.
CrawlGen.exe credits.txt
There's an example in the Example folder.
= Star Wars - Episode IV
- Opening Crawl
It is a period of civil war. Rebel
spaceships, striking from a
hidden base, have won their
first victory against the evil
Galactic Empire. During the battle,
Rebel spies managed to steal secret
plans to the Empire's ultimate weapon,
the DEATH STAR, an armored space
station with enough power to
destroy an entire planet.
Pursued by the Empire's sinister agents,
Princess Leia races home aboard her starship,
custodian of the stolen plans that can
save her people and restore freedom to the galaxy...
You can use symbols (like - and = to demark special lines). Their properties are denoted in the XML config file.
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<credits width="640" empty-height="24" text-rendering="antialiasgridfit">
<images>
<title file="" />
<footer file="" />
</images>
<fonts>
<font family="Bahnschrift" size="16" />
<font key="=" family="Noto Serif" size="20" style="Bold, Italic" color="#FFFF00" />
<font key="-" family="Tahoma" size="7" color="#888888" />
</fonts>
</credits>Text rendering and font style settings are parsed using Enum.TryParse().
Text rendering properties include:
- SystemDefault
- SingleBitPerPixel
- SingleBitPerPixelGridFit
- AntiAlias
- AntiAliasGridFit
- ClearTypeGridFit
Font styles include:
- Regular
- Bold
- Italic
And can be merged like "Italic, Bold".