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AppGameKit Classic Chat / Kerning Image FOnts?

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DavidAGK
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 12:56
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Hi,

I want to be able to kern image based font. Anyone know if this is possible (Tier 1)?

I can find the command SetTextSpacing( iTextIndex, fSpacing ).... which allows a whole string to be spaced differently but I need it on a per character basis - and preferably set once and forgotten - ie kerning!

Ideally there would be a SetCharSpacing command where you could enter the ASCII and set its individual spacing pre and post. Without it situations like AV and up looking like A V!!
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 14:25 Edited at: 21st Jan 2018 14:26
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i believe u can use a subimages.txt file beside your font image. and i remember SetTextSpacing alow also negativ spacing.
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There's nothing built in to do it
I think you'll have to create a lookup table of letter combinations with custom spacing offsets, then render each character as a sprite.
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Posted: 21st Jan 2018 15:28
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As CJB said for the manual lookup but I wouldn't render each character as a sprite, I'd use SetTextCharX()
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Posted: 22nd Jan 2018 16:08
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Ugh!
Thanks for the help.
Like the subimages text file, another associated file that helps with kerning would be good - it could use a few pre-determined shapes to define how the kerning would need to behave- you'd only need about 10 broad shapes that would cover all letters (Eg A, V, T, L etc) - it would make a huge difference to image based fonts....

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i read that need a kerning pairs table from min 60 to max ~ 80000 datas.
if you just need text a workaround is drawsprite where you set the image each char. text is often in front of all and can draw in backbuffer after call to Render().
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OK, thanks. Let's see how it looks and then I can figure if I should spend the time on it....
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