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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Font Creation Suggestion for the Staff

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xGEKKOx
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Posted: 11th Feb 2012 15:14
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Hi big Staff,
i think is much better if you sell in the shop a Font Creator for 10€ than packages that don't have inside what i need.
Please think about this suggestion, is both for marketing and for users!!!
A big deal.

Regards,
Gekko.

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Kenjar
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Posted: 11th Feb 2012 17:49 Edited at: 11th Feb 2012 17:51
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Most fonts have legal licensing issues that many users don't understand which could come back to bite them later. The advantage with packs over an all purpose font creator is that they are all checked as royalty free, safe and legal to use. They are also hand crafted rather than automated which improves the quality. There is a free font creator somewhere on these forums which does the job but the spacing issues it produces leaves me a little cold.

At present there's no substitute for taking the time to craft your own font maps properly. They are art, as are most graphic projects.
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baxslash
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Posted: 11th Feb 2012 18:41
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I think that it would be a fun project to make a font creator. It's only currently possible in DBPro but it would indeed be handy. Kenjar makes a good point but it's the responsibility of developers to only sell something they have the rights to.

I will seriously consider making one of these at some point. I might start with a simple automatic version that just churns out a basic font set and see where it goes from there. I have a lot of the necessary code from another project.

I agree it's an art, but so is programming I have some solid ideas how to achieve this in DBPro.

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kamac
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Posted: 11th Feb 2012 23:15 Edited at: 11th Feb 2012 23:48
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I could make this easly, but using C++ and SFML library instead. Through, i couldn't post it in AppGameKit Showcase then.

@EDIT.

Just started making it. Expect it soon.

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Posted: 12th Feb 2012 00:59
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It's a little buggy and neglected, but check out the Bitmap Font Creator in my sig...


Bitmap Font Creator Alpha Out Now!
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baxslash
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Posted: 12th Feb 2012 11:37
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Quote: "Just started making it. Expect it soon."

OK, great! I'll not bother starting my own then

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Mobiius
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Posted: 12th Feb 2012 14:27
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Quote: "It's a little buggy and neglected, but check out the Bitmap Font Creator in my sig..."

That's the font creator I use, and the best one out of the 3 I've tried for AGK.

My signature is NOT a moderator plaything! Stop changing it!
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xGEKKOx
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Posted: 17th Feb 2012 10:45
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I finally found a way to do a perfect PSD for all kind of fonts.
Now all i need is to select all letters and change it...
Anyway for new coders that don't have much time to do it (i spent 13 hours to do it perfectly) a font creator is much easier to use.

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