1. There's many ways of approaching, but one way you can go at it (Thanks Jakomo73!) would be using MoveX and MoveY commands alternating between InSine and OutSine easings for how many points you want for your circle. For your points in the circle, you can calculate it by using these equations for rotation:
   

   x = origin_x + r*cos(θ)
   y = origin_y + r*sin(θ)

   With r being the circle's radius and θ being the angle.
2. In Python, you'd likely need to use an image editing library like Pillow, import the image as a data type, and then analyze it pixel by pixel at the time. You basically have a 2D array. In Pillow, you can grab an individual pixel through something like getdata or load. Just keep in mind that if you analyze each individual pixel, it can get extremely expensive fast, and your .osb size or performance might dip considerably. You could alleviate this by analyzing every other pixel, shrinking the image, and things like that.
3. Uhh, I can barely see a difference, other than you have it clamped like it's against a maximum spectrum or something? I also don't understand the initial question too. Is your scaleVector for y initialized at 0 or something?

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

1. There's many ways of approaching, but one way you can go at it (Thanks Jakomo73!) would be using MoveX and MoveY commands alternating between InSine and OutSine easings for how many points you want for your circle. For your points in the circle, you can calculate it by using these equations for rotation:
   

   x = origin_x + r*cos(θ)
   y = origin_y + r*sin(θ)

   With r being the circle's radius and θ being the angle.
2. In Python, you'd likely need to use an image editing library like Pillow, import the image as a data type, and then analyze it pixel by pixel at the time. You basically have a 2D array. In Pillow, you can grab an individual pixel through something like getdata or load. Just keep in mind that if you analyze each individual pixel, it can get extremely expensive fast, and your .osb size or performance might dip considerably. You could alleviate this by analyzing every other pixel, shrinking the image, and things like that.
3. Uhh, I can barely see a difference, other than you have it clamped like it's against a maximum spectrum or something? I also don't understand the initial question too. Is your scaleVector for y initialized at 0 or something?

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

In that case, think of it like this. The FFT for the spectrum should return you the various magnitudes for each bar. Since the spectrum sprites' default origin are at the center, a scale vector Y would make it raise from the bottom and top. Just set the origin to something that's anchored to the bottom or top, and the scaling will correspond to that.

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

Ooh, that should be an issue with kerning. When you usually render text with fonts, fonts have an internal kerning that makes their juxtaposition together look appealing to each other. But when we have the letters, they're often equally monospaced, which looks awkward unless you use a monospaced font. One approach could be the following:

The problem you want to solve: You want to get the proper spacing for letters, and you know how to generate individual letters with code. But letters are of variable width, making text output weird.

Try this out --- since you can generate the letter, you should be able to get the width for this sprite. You may be able to add this width into a counter variable that can help you offset the next character, and then you do the same for the next one, and so on until you reach the end of the line. Depending on your font's scale, you may need to adjust that offset with a scale factor, which we'll call scalar.

So it'd be something like:
1) Generate the text character sprite.
2) Find the width of that sprite, let's call it baseWidth.
3) If the sprite is not " " or the end of a line, go to 3a. If it's " ", go to 3b. If it's the end of a line, go to 3c.
3a) offsetX += mySprite.baseWidth * (scalar)
3b) offsetX += (spaceValue) * (scalar)
3c) offsetX = 0, end loop
4) Repeat steps 1-3 until end of line

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

Ooh, that should be an issue with kerning. When you usually render text with fonts, fonts have an internal kerning that makes their juxtaposition together look appealing to each other. But when we have the letters, they're often equally monospaced, which looks awkward unless you use a monospaced font. One approach could be the following:

The problem you want to solve: You want to get the proper spacing for letters, and you know how to generate individual letters with code. But letters are of variable width, making text output weird.

Try this out --- since you can generate the letter, you should be able to get the width for this sprite. You may be able to add this width into a counter variable that can help you offset the next character, and then you do the same for the next one, and so on until you reach the end of the line. Depending on your font's scale, you may need to adjust that offset with a scale factor, which we'll call scalar.

So it'd be something like:
1) Generate the text character sprite.
2) Find the width of that sprite, let's call it baseWidth.
3) If the sprite is not " " or the end of a line, go to 3a. If it's " ", go to 3b. If it's the end of a line, go to 3c.
3a) offsetX += mySprite.baseWidth * (scalar)
3b) offsetX += (spaceValue) * (scalar)
3c) offsetX = 0, end loop
4) Repeat steps 1-3 until end of line

offset_x = 0
for all letters in line do:
    letter_sprite = render_letter_text_sprite(letter)
    letter_x = offset_x + letter_sprite.baseWidth * 0.5
    letter_sprite.do_storyboard_effects_here_using_letter_x()
    offset_x += letter_sprite.baseWidth 

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

I guess that's like a FontScale, yeah.

Hmm, I was chatting with Jakomo73 about a bit of this more, and this should more or less work, hopefully.

Will write in pseudocode:

offset_x = 0
for all letters in line do:
    letter_sprite = render_letter_text_sprite(letter)
    letter_x = offset_x + letter_sprite.baseWidth * 0.5
    letter_sprite.do_storyboard_effects_here_using_letter_x()
    offset_x += letter_sprite.baseWidth 

If you find that some letters are still a little too cramped, try adding an additional value inside the letter_x equation, so it'd be like (offset_x + letter.BaseWidth*0.5 + outlineThickness), where outlineThickness is this new value. Trial and error. xDD

Hopefully it should work. I actually think this should keep spaces in mind too, as long as spaces get generated and have a width that isn't blanked out or anything.

The more important part to get out of it would be the additive part. xD

def TextGenerator(text,startTime,endTime,startX,endX,yPos,scale,opacity,red,green,blue,typeE):
    delay = 0
    offsetX = 0
    letterX = 0
    for index in text:
        if (index != " "):
            letter = index
            if (letter.isupper() == True):
                letter = letter.title() + "1"
            if (letter == "'"):
                letter = "ap"
            elif (letter == "-"):
                letter = "da"
            Text = osbject("11t-fonts\\" + letter + ".png","Foreground","Centre",320,240)
            baseWidth,baseHeight = get_image_size("D:\\osu\\Songs\\i_touch_myself\\11t-fonts\\" + letter + ".png")
            letterX = offsetX + (baseWidth * 0.5)
            if (typeE == "Random"):
                randX = random.randint(-100,750)
                randY = random.randint(-50,500)
                Text.fade(0,(startTime - 500) + delay,startTime + delay,0,opacity)
                Text.move(1,(startTime - 500) + delay,startTime + delay,randX,randY,round(letterX) + startX,yPos)
                Text.move(1,startTime + delay,startTime + delay + abs((startTime - endTime)),round(letterX) + startX,yPos,round(letterX) + endX,yPos)
            elif (typeE == ""):
                Text.fade(0,startTime + delay,startTime + delay + abs((startTime - (endTime - 500))),0,opacity)
                Text.move(1,startTime + delay,startTime + delay + abs((startTime - endTime)),round(letterX) + startX,yPos,round(letterX) + endX,yPos)
            Text.para(0,startTime + delay,startTime + delay,"A")
            Text.scale(0,startTime + delay,startTime + delay,scale,scale)
            Text.fade(0,startTime + delay + abs((startTime - (endTime - 500))),startTime + delay + abs((startTime - endTime)),opacity,0)
            Text.colour(0,startTime + delay,startTime + delay,red,green,blue,red,green,blue)
            
            delay += 25
            offsetX += baseWidth
            
        elif (index == " "):
            offsetX += 50 * scale
    return;

def get_image_size(fname):
    '''Determine the image type of fhandle and return its size.
    from draco'''
    with open(fname, 'rb') as fhandle:
        head = fhandle.read(24)
        if len(head) != 24:
            return
        if imghdr.what(fname) == 'png':
            check = struct.unpack('>i', head[4:8])[0]
            if check != 0x0d0a1a0a:
                return
            width, height = struct.unpack('>ii', head[16:24])
        elif imghdr.what(fname) == 'gif':
            width, height = struct.unpack('<HH', head[6:10])
        elif imghdr.what(fname) == 'jpeg':
            try:
                fhandle.seek(0) # Read 0xff next
                size = 2
                ftype = 0
                while not 0xc0 <= ftype <= 0xcf:
                    fhandle.seek(size, 1)
                    byte = fhandle.read(1)
                    while ord(byte) == 0xff:
                        byte = fhandle.read(1)
                    ftype = ord(byte)
                    size = struct.unpack('>H', fhandle.read(2))[0] - 2
                # We are at a SOFn block
                fhandle.seek(1, 1)  # Skip `precision' byte.
                height, width = struct.unpack('>HH', fhandle.read(4))
            except Exception: #IGNORE:W0703
                return
        else:
            return
        return width, height

TextGenerator("I Love Myself",967,2376,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I want you to love me",2376,3608,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("When i'm feeling down",3784,5017,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I want you above me",5193,6425,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I searched myself",6601,7834,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I want you to find me",8010,9242,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I forget myself",9242,12411,50,100,200,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")
TextGenerator("I want you to remind me",10474,12411,50,100,300,0.3,1,0,128,255,"Random")

Jakomo73 wrote:

You need to scale the base width with your scale ^^ when I was talking with kirby I thought you were generating the fonts too, mb

Starrodkirby86 wrote:

Yeah, we thought you had them generated or something. xD But being able to grab the image's width is similar too.

Glad it's all fixed!

This is kind of another tangent, but if you'd like, you're more than welcome to join our Storyboarders' Discord, Osu! Storyboarder Banquet. We're all a pretty chill group and the biggest tenet we have there is to share interest in storyboarding and improve and learn. So you're always welcome to come on by. :p