[Bf-funboard] Text Effect could use a font change setting...

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Hi Julian,

When you say: " We shouldn't go further with current sequencer though",
does this mean that you guys are considering a total rewrite of the VSE?
I was surprised to see on twitter that some at the Blender foundation were
not editing on the VSE but rather using another application.

Cheers

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On Wed, Feb 10, 2016 at 3:43 PM, Julian Eisel <eiseljulian at gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi there,
>
> This would be pretty basic functionality that seems okay to have. We
> shouldn't go further with current sequencer though, new functionality
> should be kept basic with small maintenance needs.
>
> First I thought it was easy enough to go to quick hack list for newer
> developers to pick up. After deeper investigation I figured it isn't
> as easy as it sounds though (tm) :S Also talked to Campbell about it,
> who said the same:
> Main problem we have is that our font handling isn't designed for
> cases where multiple type faces need to be loaded and drawn
> frequently. It's more like - load a font, keep it in memory and draw
> the interface with it until user selects a different font.
> For font previews in file browser we just load the individual fonts,
> draw them once and store the resulting images. The stored images are
> small and few enough that they don't take up much memory.
> Text objects use a special way to read their fonts which is designed
> pretty specialized for generating text objects based on curves (See
> VFont struct).
>
> We'd basically need a way to do this more efficiently for such
> use-cases as the one you suggest. This is totally doable, but it would
> take some days at least (and should be done carefully).
> So long story short, it's doable, but not really straightforward. If
> anyone is willing to try it, your welcome of course.
>
> Cheers,
> - Julian -
>
> On 10 February 2016 at 00:47, Fischer Lord <lordfischer11 at gmail.com>
> wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > This is my first post here, and it's a small little feature request
> > regarding the text effect inside of the Video Sequence Editor. So I was
> > editing a quick video, went to add some text, with the awesome new text
> > effect, and was slightly annoyed to find I couldn't change the font of
> the
> > text in it. Could someone (developer...) add that in please?
> > Version: 2.76b
> > OS: Windows10Pro
> > Thanks!
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