Hello World,
After it's first appearence on these forums almost 2 years ago, We have finally managed to complete a first release of the BMFC.
Basically this utility will take a standard windows .ttf font (doesn't have to be installed either, you can load them in from the "Load" button on the font requester) and allow you to add a border, shadows or glows, and fill it using a choice of gradients or textures, or even solid colours.
It allows you to generate 2 sets of images, a Tileset and some Phrases.
A tileset is a 10 x 10 grid of letters for you to cut out and paste into your art package or program, very similar to the layout of Scraggles Bitmap font sets which inspired the creation of this utility. You can edit the tileset by setting the Edit mode to "Tileset"
The Phrases are entire words or sentances rendered onto a single image, for example a game title or a website logo banner. Although phrases share some common elements with the tileset, the remainder of the attributes are editable so you can tweak the sizes of shadows etc.
I'm sorry there is no documentation as yet, but it's fairly straight forward and intuitive to use (hopefully, lol). If you feel that something obvious has been left out, then feel free to say.
This "alpha" release is a little buggy in places, but with your feedback and criticisms, hopefully it won't take too long to add the polish needed for a final release
Download current version
BMFC_v1.0a(201105062057).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201107062301).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201107071421).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201107172121).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201108111631).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201108261615).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201206211044).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201206251250).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201206300021).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201207040007).zip
BMFC_v1.0a(201207121152).zip
@Virtual Nomad, Tiresius & Scraggle:
Thanks again for looking at the 1st version of this, a lot of your comments and suggestions have been added to this version.