Sorry for anyone whos getting confused... its stacking "text".

Can someone stack some things for me? I used to be able to do this really well, but its been a while and i cant get it.
I need to stack Level1, Level2, etc all the way to 10. Double stacking or tripple stacking will work.

Last I checked, you can't anymore.

??? You can still stack, it just causes games to be unjoinable if stacked in the map title

Stacking text is rather more of a pain that it is beneficial. Yeah it looks cool and sometimes it can look awesome, but its a time consuming process of "trial and error". There is no way to use a "algorithm" to always have something stacked correctly every time, that has been figured out yet. The text below is a copy from this map which I made quite some time ago, which featured multiple different units with stacked text. In the map I have level 1 all the way to level 20, double stacked. The strings below are all double stacked. All you would have to do is copy and paste these lines into the string editor in Scmdraft 2 and BAM! stacked text in the units name.

<13>Level 1<12>Level 1<14>MMMMMMMMMMMll
<13>Level 2<12>Level 2<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 3<12>Level 3<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 4<12>Level 4<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 5<12>Level 5<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 6<12>Level 6<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 7<12>Level 7<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 8<12>Level 8<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 9<12>Level 9<14>MMMMMMMMMMM
<13>Level 10<12>Level 10<14>MMMMMMMMMM


NOTE: If you plan on entering color into the line, just add the color before the first letter that you want to change the color of. (EX: Regular = <13>Level 1<12>Level 1<14>MMMMMMMMMMMll Color = <13><7>Level 1<12><8>Level 1<14>MMMMMMMMMMMll )

Gross. Learn to use tabs. :X
This is how I do it:
I think that is right... I don't use SCMDraft. That is two spaces after the two tabs. If you don't like the leading zeroes, add another tab at the end and it should be good. <_> = for whatever color you want the back and front to be.
By the way, I haven't tested this. It may take a bit of playing around with.

Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Jun 17 2008, 5:03 am by FaRTy1billion.

How does that disgust you? >_>

I did use spaces " " before, but they were less accurate then the Character Offset system that I now currently use. Sometimes I would end up with a tiny space that needed to be pushed over but I couldn't. If I added another space it would mess everything up.

I still think you should try to crack the algorithm that StarCraft uses to stack there text. I would definitely download it. It should also properly be called "Hawt Txt"

D-Von(U) taught me the "algorithm" a long time ago.

<13> = Center Overlap
<12> = Right Overlap
<T> = Tab
<S> = Space

The basic set up is <13>Text<12>Text<T><S><S>

You modify the number of tabs based on the number of characters in the word(s) you want to overlap.

2-3 characters: 5
4-6 characters: 4
7-8 characters: 3
9-10 characters: 2
11-12 characters: 1

If you are using a few very slim or very wide characters such a 'l' or 'W' you maybe need to subtract or add a tab. Just use your discretion. I've never come across a word to overlap that required more than one tab difference from that formula. Unfortunately after 12 characters it's not so predictable

I was talking about a program that FaRTy wanted to make but couldn't figure out the algorithm for. The one I am talking about it the one StarCraft uses, not how to overlap text. If you can have a program do it for you, then why not? StarForge does overlapping text, but it comes out all messes up when you look at it in the game.

It's so easy to do via that method though. It would almost take more time to load up a program to do it for you. You can stack anything in like 10 seconds with that method.

With how much accuracy? If a program could do it for you with 100% accuracy all of the time, I would use the program.

I'd say about 90% of the time the formula works. And 100% of the time it works by just adding or subtracting a single tab.

Because massive amounts of invisible characters are groooss. Tabs, ftw!
Try the one I posted and see how nice it is! <3 Also, if you stack other things they line up properly.

Tabs. And in that case, you use a comma or a period. (comma is 1px bigger. comma+period=space)

Well. I had part of it down for AutoStacker (an old project of mine.) Recently I've been working on the center/right algorithms that SC uses. However, it is proving more difficult than necessary. >.>

It all has to do with string widths, the different combinations of centers anf rights, and a ton of alignment. I have it working for mission briefings and forces (unfortunately for me, those were removed...)

Ya, farty, i had your beta version of that program!
btw im testing all of your methods to see which is best.