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blastar
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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 12:08 Edited at: 13th Mar 2015 12:59
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hello,
after starting with AppGameKit i liked the bimap-based fontsystem and i liked the idea to use optimized atlas-images but the font-editors around could not create an optimized atlas-image and missed support for extended-charset (for nonenglish chars like german ÄäÖöÜüß) or unicode. i stopped with AppGameKit an wrote my own font-editor, now like to share it whith other AGK-users:

Please report any bugs or wishes..

v0.1   1st release
v0.1.1 fixes "lost event" bug
v0.1.2 mousewheel disabled
v0.1.3 crash fix
v0.2 added some unicode-pages
v0.2.1 fixed russian unicode-page
v0.2.2 autodetect & set default charset (untested)
v0.3 added shine effect (light), red cursor in subimage-tab, multicolored gradient (11), save opaque image, controlcodes (#127-159) disabled by default

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how to load a font with extended charset:


"UOBitmapFontMaker" is translatable, if you want to support me and the community rename & translate file "your language.ubfl" and share with us, thanks!

how to use - 10 easy steps:
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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 12:11 Edited at: 24th Mar 2014 16:27
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how to use

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The Zoq2
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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 14:06
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That looks really cool, I will have to try it sometime

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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 15:15 Edited at: 24th Mar 2014 15:16
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That looks really useful and well made

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Nice! Once little thing I noticed: If you input a number into the Font/Options for the font size it results in a very small font image. It only seems to work properly when you use the up/down arrows.

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This looks good. Keeping an eye on this one.

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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 18:07 Edited at: 24th Mar 2014 18:10
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@Naphier: it's fixed! stupid bug.. but every number you enter generates an event. if you enter 2 number it will render it twice! sorry, you have to deal with this..
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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 18:10
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Awesome sauce. Also noticed some weird issues when zooming. I think it was with the mouse wheel. No time to describe them in detail for you, sorry. They were not show stoppers though
Very handy tool!

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@Naphier: it's also fixed.. but it's not a bug - it's a (windows)feature! if you not use mousewheel it changes the gadget in focus. i disabled mousewheel.
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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 21:19
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Love them features!
Nice work

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Posted: 24th Mar 2014 21:30
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Thank you very much. Perfect tool for font management.
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Scary Little Rabbit
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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 06:15
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good.

I also did some thing in the past (looks like too many of us do that). it supports for extended-charset too. it is a bit ugly, but I stop a further development for unknown reason.

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blastar, I can't do extended tilemap with russian charset with your app. changes of charset take no effect.

error #1:
"too many stars, too many stares. disembody."
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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 08:18 Edited at: 25th Mar 2014 09:29
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@Scary Little Rabbit, it's a part LOGFONT (http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/desktop/dd145037%28v=vs.85%29.aspx). it's just for loading, it does not create a russian charmap or change extended charset.

for russian extended charset use this charmap (ISO-8859-5) i created. if u use a font with unicode-support (like Arial, Impact..) CHARSET DEFAULT is ok. if u use a font with no unicode-support set CHARSET to RUSSIAN..

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Hi

Thank you for this great tool, it's very usefull !

It works great, but you have a bug with your tilemap + subimage, the result is decaled to x -1 or x-2 (I think) :

OK with atlas image + subimage


Bug with tilemap + subimage :


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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 10:05
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blastar, of course I try right fonts like Arial.

my default charset is russian. I tried to select russian manually, but nothing is happened. then I tried another charsets, these changes take no effect.

your picture with keyboard almost correct, but usually russian keyboards look like this:


if it is helps you: in "russian" ASCII is allocated range from 192 to 255 for cyrillic chars.

error #1:
"too many stars, too many stares. disembody."
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blastar, ISO-8859-5 is rare thing, see Wiki:
Quote: "The 8-bit encodings KOI8-R and KOI8-U, CP866, and also Windows-1251 are far more commonly used. Another possible way to represent Cyrillic is Unicode."

in my life I see a using of KOI8-R and Windows-1251 mostly.

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"too many stars, too many stares. disembody."
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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 10:17
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personally I think you need Windows-1251.

error #1:
"too many stars, too many stares. disembody."
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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 11:40 Edited at: 25th Mar 2014 12:11
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@Blendman: I can not verify this.

@Scary Little Rabbit: i updated this function, now it autoloads some unicode-pages, so change CHARSET should now work as expected.

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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 11:52
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blastar, now it works, good. but it not recognises that my default charset is russian.

error #1:
"too many stars, too many stares. disembody."
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blastar, you should implement setting up of offsets for outline of chars for Blendman. I did it.

error #1:
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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 12:42 Edited at: 25th Mar 2014 15:19
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@blastar : I will try to find the style I have used to reproduce the bug (perhap's with shadow x = -1).

I have another question : when I clic on the "phrase panel", the original text is in chinese (幸福, it is normal (I like chinese ^^) ?

What is the langage you ahve used to code this tool ?

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Posted: 25th Mar 2014 13:12 Edited at: 25th Mar 2014 13:15
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@Scary Little Rabbit: you like perfection, right? DEFAULT was linked to EUROPE but i changed this to autodetect system-language and set correct one... if avaiable. but can not test this...

@Blendman: in "phrase panel" the text is chinese to show you the unicode-support... nothing special. the bug you mentioned i can not verify. if possible, please upload the created font.
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blastar, yeah, I like it.
and I tested it for you again: on my Win 7 everything is okay. looks like.

error #1:
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Posted: 12th Apr 2014 08:26 Edited at: 12th Apr 2014 08:32
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while polishing my gothic-style game I found a way to convert a handwritten font into bitmapfont - no libraries or additional code required. is anyone interested?

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@Blastar : of course, I'm interested

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Hi blastar, thanks for making this program. I find it very useful.

I have a couple of questions if you don't mind.
1. Is it possible to save the image with a background color instead of a transparent background?
2. Is it possible to save as a monospaced font (every letter has the same width)? I tried to save as tilemap + subimages.txt and the image is monospaced but not the subimages.txt.
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hello Ranietz,
I uploaded v0.3, now you can choose transparent or opaque image when you save. for a monospaced font save as tilemap an delete subimages.txt.
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Thanks for the updated version blastar. I did not know that I could delete the subimages file. Looks like this program will do everything I need for my bitmap fonts.
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Quote: "while polishing my gothic-style game I found a way to convert a handwritten font into bitmapfont - no libraries or additional code required. is anyone interested?"


That's a good looking output, it looks so much more natural than most other fonts. I can see what you have done, and the beauty is it's so simple yet so impressive.

I was intrigued so I checked out how TTF files work. You can actually set the overlap in a standard font. I wonder why you don't see very many examples of it?

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You can set just about anything!

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yes, it looks simple but you have to add an individual(!) offset on both(!) sides of each char to look natural when using overlap with a bitmapfont... this takes a few minutes but looks impressive!
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Excellent, thank you for this contribution. I was looking for a decent font creator, the one I currently use is not compatible with AGK.

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