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Questions tagged [bitmap-fonts]

Non-scalable font made out of bitmap images rather than vector data like in Truetype fonts. Used mainly in games. Typically render faster than truetype fonts.

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How to convert a bitmap font (.FON) into a truetype font (.TTF)?

My program (win32, Delphi) needs to display special chars in some columns of a table. To do that I use a special font for those columns. I got the font from my client. It is a .FON font. It works good on the screen but I often get problems as soon…
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How set Libgdx bitmap font size?

I'm rendering on screen the game fps using bitmap font but there are no methods for the size. This is a problem for me because my camera viewport size is very small so the text when rendered is huge and pixelated. font.draw(batch,…
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How to convert TTF to FNT with Fontforge

I have a TTF font, that needs to be converted in FNT (and ideally in pcf too). I tried Fontforge, but when I loaded font and chose to generate font - nothing could be selected from the list on the right, except "No bitmap fonts" though there was WIN…
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Where I can find .fon format specification?

I'm thinking about making a bitmap font editor, but I'm completely unable to find any information about .fon internal structure. Someone knows where I can find it? Or the only solution is to analyse these files myself?
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The correct way to draw text in OpenGL ES 2

I am using PowerVR OpenGL ES 2 SDK to develop my game on Windows with C++ then I can port it to android or iphone. Everything look alright but I'm now stuck with text rendering. I can't found any detailed tutorial about rendering text (using TTF or…
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How to draw a bitmapfont on a stage in libgdx?

This is my current render method on my level in my Libgdx game. I am trying to draw a BitmapFont on my level's top right corner but all I'm getting is a bunch of white boxes. @Override public void render( float delta ) { …
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Draw a BitmapFont rotated in libgdx

I can't seem to figure out how to rotate a Bitmap font correctly. I think you modify the transformation matrix of the SpriteBatch. However, trying to rotate that rotates the text around some point, and I don't know how to rotate it relative to the…
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XCode Has No Option to Enable Texture Atlas Generation

I'm following along with this apple doc, but for some reason when I search for "Sprite" under Build Settings in XCode nothing pops up. I've also tried searching for "Enable Texture Atlas Generation" and nothing comes up. I have Xcode 5.0.2 if that…
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Simulate kerning for a bitmapped font with Fabric JS

I am trying to create an effect with Fabric JS where letters appear to be "embroidered" on a sweater like this: I can achieve this effect in Photoshop by using this action. My idea for getting it into a is to render out a png from…
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Libgdx how to flip a BitmapFont?

I am using a BitmapFont to render text the problem is that I decided to use TrueTypeFontFactory.createBitmapFont method to create the BitmapFont so I can use my own font instead of the default one. The text is rendered with no problems except it is…
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Irregular font spacing in LibGDX

I am developing this game in LibGDX and I have a BitmapFont that I am using to write the score on the screen. The font comes out with weird spacing and it changes when it moves. How can I fix that? Here are some examples of how the text shows…
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Determining the y placement of a character for rendering text

I have been working on my own bitmap font renderer and while I believe I may have the character spacing correctly, I am not sure how I can determine the the y placement of the character. For example, if the letter 'a' had a y placement of 0, then…
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Managing Bitmap Font assets in LibGdx

I can load a Bitmap Font just fine with the following code: BitmapFont font= new BitmapFont( Gdx.files.internal( "Fonts/MyFont.fnt" ), Gdx.files.internal( "Fonts/MyFont.png" ), false ); but I'm trying to…
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Text rotation libgdx

I want to rotate BitmapFont in libgdx. There are topics on this matter. Draw a BitmapFont rotated in libgdx However, the first solution I try cuts my text, the whole text doesn't appear (diagonal cut). And it also rotates it ba 90 degrees, when it…
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Scale Bitmapfont clearly with openGL (interpolation)?

I load an bitmapfont (as png image) in my openGL Application to render characters from there at a fixed size. That's working. But: If I want to scale some glyphs at a smaller size it doesnt look great. Is there a way - without using pregenerated…
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