What to do about long chat boxes? It'll crash if "too many vertices" of txt!
We are an online game. Over time, a chat box gets filled up. Once it reaches about 3-4 pages worth of text and gets an error about too many vertices.
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It's very common to break scroll areas up into the parts you can see and the parts you don't. If you create single line text elements and replace off screen ones with blanks you only ever have vertices for the visual part.
Hmm, but what if you need to allow scrolling up? This is where it gets tough.
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