I’ve been coding the game for about a month now without too many issues slowing me down. Then I had to write an algorithm to wrap a string of words and fit it inside a box or determined size.
It sounds simple enough but it is actually quite a complicated piece of code to write to get it to work properly. Each character may have a different width and each character has its own kerning and I needed to manually add my own space in between words. Plus there is a line-height property and padding around the box that it needs to be in.
I know it has been done before but I like to challenge myself and write my own code from scratch. Now I have a function that converts strings to sprite-based fonts. So I can draw my own font and set each characters property and display it with word-wrapping. Yay!
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