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Work in Progress / Coming Soon : Font Editor

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Posted: 25th Sep 2003 20:40 Edited at: 25th Sep 2003 22:07
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Font editor is designed to allow the (fairly) easy creation of bitmapped fonts. Its got commands for shifting each bitmap up, down, left and/or right, saving the graphics as bitmaps or as binary data.

Got a beta of the program on my web site in the Tech Demos section.


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DarkSin
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Very nice look forward to its completion... should really help for customization.

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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 14:17 Edited at: 26th Sep 2003 14:18
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Indeed - the only (main) problem is that its too fast - should be easy enough to sort though.


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I could do with a font editor. Most letters can be made from a number '8'. It would be a great idea to somehow automate the creation of all the other letters from a few basic rules. So you get the user to make a number 8, and a couple of other basic shapes, like hanging loops, then have the AI build all the other letters.

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Posted: 26th Sep 2003 23:16
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Hopefully, I'll be able to continue with it over the weekend.


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The colour picker and grid size options are now up and running. Most of the saving routines need to be done next.


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Freddix
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really good idea

will we be able to choose 8x8 , 16x16 , 32x32 font sizes and custom ones ? or will it only be fixed to 1 size ?

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8x8,16x16,24x24,32x32,48x48 and 64x64


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Dave J
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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 18:15
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Not bad, it's always hard to find a good font editor. The scroll up/down/left/right with the numpad seems to slow/freeze the program greatly though.


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Posted: 3rd Oct 2003 22:57
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I'm surprised - it shouldn't take a lot of processing power to scroll the bitmap around... What computer do you have ?


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David T
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When I scroll I also get some slowdown. My specs:

Athlon 2800+
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If you go to download.com you can find plenty of font creators there, and my fav (I make a few fonts with it, very flexable) is Font Creator Program 4(fcp4). Trial 30 days. But if you can make your font creator similar then i can't wait.

Hey what about 3D fonts?
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Newbie Brogo
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yes! i need a good font creater, will it be free?? hope it is... i dont like spending.. you could say i'm cheap...

You did what? For who?! For how many jellybeans?!?
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Posted: 19th Oct 2003 01:32
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I wont be continuing any more with it (as I really must start designing a game), so the code is in the Code Snippets section & on my web site.


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