How to make texts glow?

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#1

Hi, I am currently learning the defold engine, and I faced an issue. I am trying to make the “Text Label” glow up. I wanna give an effect to it looking like this:

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But the issue is, I don’t know how to do it. Also I want users to interact with text box and type commands like they are typing in a real Terminal or CMD. But is there any object like “Text Box”, people used in Roblox Studio? I am not planning to create any GUI, I just want players to start game by typing “game -start” command. What I mean by text box is here:
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The other issue is I want my games Windows side to be fixed. Won’t allow people to make fullscreen, make bigger or smaller. I want to disable this:
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How can I solve this 3 issues? Or any source, that explains like explanining to dummies?

#2

Hello and welcome to the community!

If you are looking for a terminal like game - I think making it in GUI would be more comfortable, but you can make it with labels as well.
In both cases there is no such thing as text input, but you can use assets, for example Druid - advanced system for Defold GUI with typical, customizable, text inputs.

If you want the text to “glow” you can use a “glowing” font - a font with blurred edges. Or you can do so with shadow for a normal font, except the shadow is bright and looks like glow. You can also write some kind of shader for such effect. Defold Horri-fold assets is a great example and it has already some kind of circular distortion known from old screens.

The thing with resizing window is afaik possible to handle with DefOS, though consider that players really have very different screens and it might be problematic on some :wink:

P.S. Sorry, I didn’t put a link, because I’m typing from phone and it’s inconvenient, but you will find all assets with extensive descriptions on Defold site :wink:

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