Unicode support in VCMP

[EightyVice]

Good work @ysc3839
You surprised me by your work

[RW]

Great! We will use them in the future!终于可以愉快地说中文了! Finally we can speak Chinese. ^LOL

[ysc3839]

The first useable version!
Only supports 04rel003 version 571C093D. Not support XP!!!
https://bitbucket.org/ysc3839/vcmp-i18n/downloads
Reanme the vcmp-game.dll to vcmp-game1.dll and rename vcmp-i18n-dwrite-dbg.dll to vcmp-game.dll.
Or inject vcmp-i18n-dwrite-dbg.dll to VCMP.
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[Luis_Labarca]

@ysc3839 good work bro I congratulate you

[KAKAN]

Awesome work mate!

[EightyVice]

I like your way to support VCMP @ysc3839

[Miracle]

Congratulations

[ℛḝξ☂]

keep it

[ysc3839]

keep it

I'll keep development if I have time. Or if @Stormeus gives me VCMP's font code.

[Stormeus]

@ysc3839 The font code for VC:MP involves creating a bitmap of all Latin characters and storing it in a DirectX texture to blit later. Drawing via this method is fast but supporting Unicode with it is extremely memory exhaustive. Even if I were to give you the source, it'd be virtually useless for what you're trying to do.

[EK.IceFlake]

Cant you generate your own bitmap where whenever a new letter is used you put it in your new bitmap. If it was used previously then draw it from the bitmap otherwise read it from the font and add it to your bitmap

[EK.IceFlake]

The first source code! I named it "vcmp-i18n". This version is under development. It isn't for users, just for developers to review.

https://bitbucket.org/ysc3839/vcmp-i18n

Known issues: 1) No Unicode support.
2) When resize the window, the game will crash.

Also, I tried many ways to make it like VCMP's style, but I can't. @Stormeus could you give me some help?

LOL
"Unicode support in VCMP"
"Known issues: 1) No Unicode support."

[Stormeus]

Cant you generate your own bitmap where whenever a new letter is used you put it in your new bitmap. If it was used previously then draw it from the bitmap otherwise read it from the font and add it to your bitmap

That's an idea, except that introduces a denial of service attack where a player could just send a large string of Unicode characters to exhaust the memory of everyone in the server.

[ysc3839]

@ysc3839 The font code for VC:MP involves creating a bitmap of all Latin characters and storing it in a DirectX texture to blit later. Drawing via this method is fast but supporting Unicode with it is extremely memory exhaustive. Even if I were to give you the source, it'd be virtually useless for what you're trying to do.

I want to imitate VCMP's font style but after disassembled VCMP I still don't know how it draws. There's a function between pTexture->Lock and Unlock I don't understand how it works. So I need the source code.

Cant you generate your own bitmap where whenever a new letter is used you put it in your new bitmap. If it was used previously then draw it from the bitmap otherwise read it from the font and add it to your bitmap

That's an idea, except that introduces a denial of service attack where a player could just send a large string of Unicode characters to exhaust the memory of everyone in the server.

About the performance. IIRC, MTA:SA have a font cache map that caches character bitmap recently used. And my thes version uses DirectWrite and it looks like very fast since it have hardware acceleration.

PS:MTA:SA have two ways to draw texts. One is use ID3DXFont. The other is use FreeType to read glyph bitmap and save to a map. If the map full then some glyph will be removed.

PPS: Informations for this test version. I uses DirectWrite and Direct2D to draw texts to a dc and copy the dc to a Direct3D texture。Then draw this texture to sprite. It's easy to imitate VCMP's font style using DirectWrite's custom text renderer and Direct2D's geometry.

PPPS: @Stormeus I want to blame that VCMP uses the SetRect function to set a RECT struct.
I think it's better to use:(I'm using VS2015 it supports this. IIRC this is supported since C++11)

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[MEGAMIND]

Awesome work bro! salute u