PIXI.TextStyle gradient stroke and pattern fillStyle

[Valery]

Hi,

I just want to ask if PIXI developers going to support pattern fill style and gradient/pattern strokeStyle.

Canvas API supports it.

context.strokeStyle=color|gradient|pattern;

context.fillStyle=color|gradient|pattern;

also multi stroke will be nice to have.

Maybe somebody can recommend me a lib with such text effects for PIXI

 

[ivan.popelyshev]

Look at all those gradient-related PRs: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/pulls?utf8=✓&q=is%3Apr+gradient 

Adopt one and take it to valhalla.

[ivan.popelyshev]

Oh, right, those PR's are about Text. Well, you have the answer: no one wants to help with Gradient.

Make your PR, but beware that Pixi is hybrid webgl-canvas renderer and features that work only for canvas always will be second-class citizens. Or even third, take a look at v5 branch `next`, it has separate Canvas renderer, called "Legacy".

UPD. Outdated, I thought you want Graphics

[ivan.popelyshev]

You can also try to find gradient issue with "feature request" mark, or create one: https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/issues?utf8=✓&q=is%3Aissue+gradient May be someone will have free time and implements gradient both for canvas and webgl.

UPD. Outdated, dont read.

[ivan.popelyshev]

I thought pixi-animate supports gradients, but no luck, only placeholders: https://github.com/jiborobot/pixi-animate/blob/master/src/mixins/Graphics.js

[ivan.popelyshev]

Oh wait you need TEXTSTYLE . Sorry, I have a cold, I'm not ok

Yeah, you should adopt that PR https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/pull/4331 or fork pixi, apply changes to the files and build it, and voila, you can use gradient in textStyle!

[Valery]

Yes, I want it only for TextStyle )))

[Valery]

https://github.com/pixijs/pixi.js/tree/text-gradient-additions

This branch is what I need.

[themoonrat]

When I saw the title I thought I'd done a pr for it at some stage!

It wasn't accepted into pixi official because there were worries about the text api becoming a bit crazy. The hope in the future is that you could pass perhaps a PIXI.Gradient into the fill properties, and thus no need for separate stop point and gradient type settings every time it's an option.

But I use the contents of that PR in my games on my own pixi fork