Scalable text for pixi.js

[PainKKKiller]

For my project I need quickly develop textfield which shows good quality while scaling. So far I see I can do it with approach I describe below:
1. Scale whole render and get koefficient of resize. Question is which approach for this task is better, now I do it with JS function on window.resize event, which use css transform and returns scale factor. But I suppose I need to do scaling within pixi to get control over process.
2. Redraw textfield on canvas changing font size according this scale factor, and adjust it's coordinates.

I would like to hear any thoughts on this subject, thanks in advance!

[Exca]

There's one method of getting really smooth fonts with gpu. The method described here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Distance-field-fonts

Not sure if pixi has anything similar.

With normal text-elements I have previously done it similarly as you said. On resize change the renderer + canvas size (renderer.resize(width, height)). Then just calculate how big the font should be and set the style of the font to match. It's not a pixel perfect method though.

[PainKKKiller]

I tried it with this library https://github.com/PixelsCommander/pixi-sdf-text  small fonts are blurry, it well scales up, but not good when scales down.

[ludado]

You have to do what you said on the point 2, change the font size according to the scale factor, and adjust it's coordinates. That's what I do on my games at ludado.com. All the texts in the games are managed this way. You can resize the game window and the texts never get blurry.

If you scale the texts they will eventually get blurry. 

[PainKKKiller]

@ludado thanks for link, I would like to see how this sulution looks, but server is down.

[ludado]

Upps, that's strange, I didn't detect any problems on our servers yesterday. Try again, please. It you try Yatzy Solitaire game for example, the texts in the menu or game buttons, or the scoreboard and help bubbles in the game are PIXI.Text objects, and managed this way. Whenever you resize the window, the scale factor is used to set a new font size.

[PainKKKiller]

Thanks for demo, it has big sized text, really wonder how ti looks on small font sizes. And anyway you have problems with server, sometimes I can enter your games sometimes don't.

[Taz]

Here's a Code Pen you can play with, taken from an old project. It uses PIXI.Text and sets the font size according to window dimensions.

EDIT: Upgraded to Pixi 4.5.0

[PainKKKiller]

Thanks a lot Taz, really nice demo!

[dazzafact]

fx=demoText.width/demoText.height
demoText.width =w
demoText.height =w/fx

http://www.jsfiddle.net/eq9paxob/3