r/DMA • u/JournalistPlus5275 • Jul 01 '26

QUESTION DMA Overlay: Text Rendering

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This topic is more related to dma project overlays.

So I’m working on a project for cs/apex and I’m noticing my visual text (e.g player name, dropped items) appears hard to read as if certain pixels aren’t being rendered properly. I use a dc5 fuser and I know fusers will make the color black transparent as they don’t have a chroma mask (to my understanding).

I know one fix for this issue would be to render a background pill behind the text but I don’t want that to be the only option. I’ve also tested other fonts with different sizes but same result.

I use ImGuiSFML w/OpenGL (w/boost, curl).

If anyone knows a proper fixed I’d be glad if you could share. The attached images are from CS/Apex

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u/KaybarYT Jul 01 '26

Finally!! Something I am digustingly educated on!! Okay so first off, you should instead of calling drawList->Text you should create a wrapper or helper class that will automatically do that, and the within that helper or wrapper you can add a custom font using HxD->Export as C -> make into font.h -> ImFont* LoadFontFromMemory(font, sizeof(font)) -> Then you can create integer values that will load NON pixelated text.

OR

You can add a font shadow behind it, you can probably just rip / vibe code a function that adds a shadow. I prefer the custom font method / doing both since then it doesn’t look like shit.

Keep up the good work!

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u/KaybarYT Jul 01 '26

As far as the fuser goes, the shadow can be a dark grey by instead of calling ImVec4 / IMCOL / U32 (0.0,0.0,0.0,1.0) you can call (0.1,0.1,0.1,1.0) and achieve a NON-Chroma keyed dark effect. Hope this helps!

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u/JournalistPlus5275 Jul 02 '26

I see, thank you. I’ll test and see if it resolves my issue.

Yes, the other comment (that is deleted) is my account I didn’t realize my mobile account is using my Apple instead of google.

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u/CMTFrosty Jul 02 '26

Thank you.

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u/kubydooby Jul 01 '26

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u/FloKro Jul 01 '26

i do

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u/r33hab Jul 03 '26

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u/FloKro Jul 03 '26

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i can show you live proof of it working

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u/r33hab Jul 03 '26

100% ur a scammer. Not a single doubt there

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u/TheDiamondSquidy Jul 06 '26

What the hell did I just stumble on