Fonts in Blitz3d
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| Is it possible to load a font straight from a file with Blitz3d, or is the program was stuck with the average defaults? |
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| Yes. loadFont() setFont() as long as the user has the font installed on their device..... |
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| Ah, I see what I did wrong; I forgot to add the spacing when inputting the font's name. While this post is still so young, would be so kind as to answer another one of my questions? If someone who doesn't have the specific font installed onto their computer played the game, would the font fail to load and default to ariel? I'm wondering if adding the font files in the game would suffice as a solution; but then again, I'm still not sure. |
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| I'm not sure...I've not tried it.....but you can give it a go? |
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| Well, the game I'm currently working on is far from complete, but eventually we'll find out. |
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| If someone who doesn't have the specific font installed onto their computer played the game, would the font fail to load and default to ariel? I'm wondering if adding the font files in the game would suffice as a solution; but then again, I'm still not sure. I have done some tests about this a few years ago, from what i remember, you can try to install and to load a custom font, but if it fails, you can use a commonly installed font like arial or verdana... Not sure if the list of commonly installed fonts has changed over the years, you may want to do a search about recommendations about fonts for html pages or for computers with Windows... |
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| I'll add the fonts used to the game's files and advise players to install them before playing. It's a crude method, but what can you do? |
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| 1) Fonts must either be installed and loaded by their NAME (i.e. LoadFont("Arial") OR included with direct path to their correct filename (i.e. LoadFont("C:\Windows\Custom Font Italic.ttf")) 2)If a font is not loaded correctly, even if the handle is not null, the program may still crash. 3) If no Font is Set with SetFont, the default ("Blitz.fon" font is used with a size 10 |
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| Alternatively you can render fonts within your gpu instead cpu. Therefore you must use textured bitmap fonts. Search the code archives or project source for examples! |
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| Yep, bitmap fonts is the only really safe route :-) |
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