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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [quote][i]Originally posted by Knight Chat X[/i] [br] When I converted to [b]DirectX 9.0c [/b] ran into the same problem with [b][red]DrawText[/red][/b] as others have had, it's very strict with parameters, while working with font declarations I finally got it to work as expected, when I finally got it down to where the syntax worked, the program ran but didn't display text, I later found this to be because of the [b][red]DrawTextFormat[/red][/b] settings, some settings will render the font while others won't. I've moved onto other things and now I can't find the class I made to work with [b][red]DrawText[/red][/b] easier, but even when things were going well I realized [b][red]DrawText[/red] [/b] was incredibly impacting my frame rates slowing down and not doing well with memory performance, and the more text displayed the worse it was so I went in search of an alternative and considered using a generated text mesh, and behold it works like a charm. [b]Basically it's setup like this:[/b] [limegreen]'Global Variables.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] mesh3DText [orange]As [/orange] Mesh = [orange]Nothing[/orange] [limegreen]'Mesh to draw 3d text.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] fontName [orange]As String [/orange] = "Arial" [limegreen] 'Name of the font you wish to use.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] FontSize [orange]As Integer [/orange] = 10 [limegreen] 'Size of the font.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] textMaterial [orange]As Material [/orange] [limegreen]'Material to color text.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] matFont [orange]As [/orange] Matrix = Matrix.Identity[limegreen] 'Matrix to position and scale. text.[/limegreen] [orange]Private [/orange] currentFont [orange]As [/orange] System.Drawing.Font [limegreen]'Variable that stores the font.[/limegreen] [limegreen]'Put this code where your Direct3D device is initialized.[/limegreen] [limegreen]'Create a new font using the given parameters..[/limegreen] currentFont = [orange]New[/orange] System.Drawing.Font(fontName, FontSize) [limegreen] 'Create 3D Text Mesh.[/limegreen] mesh3DText = Mesh.TextFromFont(mobjDX9, currentFont, "This is a test message...", 0.001F, 0.4F) [limegreen] 'Create the material that will be used for the mesh.[/limegreen] textMaterial = [orange]New [/orange] Material textMaterial.AmbientColor = [orange]New [/orange] ColorValue(0, 16, 180, 255) textMaterial.DiffuseColor = [orange]New [/orange] ColorValue(0, 16, 180, 255) [limegreen]'Now put this in the render portion of the program to render the text.[/limegreen] [limegreen]'Set text mesh rotation.[/limegreen] [orange]Dim [/orange] matRot [orange]As New [/orange] Matrix matRot.RotateYawPitchRoll(0, 0, 0) [limegreen]'XYZ[/limegreen] [limegreen] 'Set text mesh scale.[/limegreen] [orange]Dim [/orange] matScale [orange]As New [/orange] Matrix matScale.Scale(5.0F, 5.0F, 1.0F) [limegreen]'XYZ (Note: To change font depth change Z, a higher value will result in more 3D look while lower results in a flatter 2D look.)[/limegreen] [limegreen]'Set text mesh position.[/limegreen] [orange]Dim [/orange] matPos [orange]As New [/orange] Matrix matPos.Translate(-20, -10, 0) [limegreen]'XYZ[/limegreen] [limegreen]'Combine all matrix calculations.[/limegreen] mobjDX9.Transform.World = Matrix.Multiply(Matrix.Multiply(matRot, matScale), matPos) mobjDX9.Material = textMaterial [limegreen]'Set material for render.[/limegreen] mesh3DText.DrawSubset(0) [limegreen]'Render Mesh/DrawText.[/limegreen] :cool: :D [/quote]    Insert an File Check here to include your profile signature. Check here to subscribe to this topic.