Spoly MelonsMasks!

This is a nice mix between Spoly and MelonsMasks! I take no credit for the original work, as it was done by the respective authors. I just combined them together.

Thanks to Filipovskis and garryspins/orion for the original work!

Why would I use this?

I created this so I can draw anything I want without worrying about performance, and it also supports anti-aliasing. Basically, it compiles and stores your drawing as a PNG, which you can then render as a material. This means you can use an expensive drawing function and still have it run about 100% faster than a draw.RoundedBox call.

It achieves the smooth look by first scaling your drawing up. Then, when loading it with Material, we specify mips and smooth. The smooth option essentially does what render.PushFilter(Mag/Min) does, while mips enables smaller versions (mipmaps) to be drawn cleanly. As a result, you get a nice, smooth appearance at a very low performance cost.

Example

local spoly_melonsmasks = include("spoly_melonsmasks.lua")

local mat = Material("data/ur_material.png")
spoly_melonsmasks.Generate("CircleMaterial", function(w, h)
    -- There is no need to do masks.Start() or masks.End()
    -- it is done automatically, incase you need to change End kind, simply return it

    surface.SetDrawColor(255, 255, 255)
    surface.SetMaterial(mat)
    surface.DrawTexturedRect(0, 0, w, h)

spoly_melonsmasks.Source()
    draw.RoundedBox(w, 0, 0, w, h, Color(255, 255, 255, 255))

    -- return spoly_melonsmasks.KIND_STAMP -- incase you want to change the End kind
end)

hook.Add("HUDPaint", "DrawCircleMaterial", function()
    spoly_melonsmasks.Draw("CircleMaterial", 0, 0, 512, 512)
end)

You can find more examples at:

• Spoly
• MelonsMasks