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2D All the way! / best method for bitmap fonts?

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Genesis Rage
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Posted: 9th May 2005 09:52
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wondering what is the best and easiest way to use bitmapped fonts. i have seen another engine that uses a bitmap with red and yellow pixels to get the character size and locations. i can see how that could be a problem (cant have red or yellow, i would guess).

would it be relatively easy to make some kind of function where you just needed to do something like loadBmpFont("font.bmp", font_name) to set the font then printBmpFont("Text to display", font_name) ?


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indi
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Posted: 12th May 2005 21:18
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check the codebase, ive seen this question asked a few times and seen people write scripts that solve it quite easily.

the basics to it is to grab an image of the text then use them in the sprite image references.




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