A text could not wear a shader, and a pixel font was always smoothed.
Pixi's Text takes no custom shader. It also shares one texture between
texts of the same content and style, and the filter is not part of that
key, so two equal texts with different filters would overwrite each
other.
- TextPicture rasters a text into a texture of its own and draws it
like a sprite. Shader, time animation and edge mode work without a
special path. A new text, font or size rasters again and keeps the
shader.
- The old texture is dropped only after the shader holds the new one.
Before, Pixi warned about a destroyed texture that was still bound.
- A text has a Shader row with the shader's property rows below, as a
sprite has. Overrides, saving, animation and the Properties node
(type Text) know them. A shader parameter named like an own row of
the text loses to that row, as on the particle source.
- The font asset has a Filter row, Linear or Nearest. The row existed
three times already (texture, vector art, pixel art) and is now one
helper filterRow.
- Nearest rasters the text 8 times finer and cuts every 8x8 block to
one texel: at least half covered is full, else empty. Chrome on
Windows smooths canvas text sideways through DirectWrite whatever
filter we set later. The cut removes those half pixels on every
system, and the texture stays one texel per world unit.
Found on the way:
- On a font that is no pixel font thin strokes break apart under
Nearest. For a pixel font at its own size this does not matter.
Not done:
- The preview in the Shader tab does not take a selected text as its
picture, it shows the test picture then.
Tests:
- ./check.sh: 189 files, 2759 tests, CHECK EXIT 0.
- text-shader.test.ts with 10 tests: rows and name precedence, a
clamped override, save and load, animation, the font filter, and
sharpCoverage on a smoothed edge and at the texture border.
- e2e 30 has 7 new checks: red glyphs through the shader picked with
the mouse, the shader survives a new text, red in the game, soft
edges under Linear, clean 4x4 blocks under Nearest, and half covered
texels (Linear 238, Nearest 0).
- Full local run before the Nearest cut: all passed, 1543 checks.
GM_STEPS=1,30 on the final bundle: all passed, 32 checks. The sum
1544 in the README is counted from these two runs, not measured.
- Counter-checks fail as expected: in the browser no shader on a text
fails 30h-30j, an always linear sampler fails the Nearest check, the
old 1:1 raster leaves 107 half covered texels and fails 30k-ii.
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