Font appearance problem.

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Ryan Burnside(Posted 2006) [#1]
I have sucessfully loaded the font i wanted but it looks terrible.

Here is a screen of what i mean.


Does Blitz have something aganst AA'ing the fonts? I set them to smooth upon loading...


Space_guy(Posted 2006) [#2]
do you have
setblend AlphaBlend
in the code?


Ryan Burnside(Posted 2006) [#3]
No, that cleared it right up! It seems bizzare to need that bit of code, could you please explain why it's necessary?


Grey Alien(Posted 2006) [#4]
when the font is loaded in it's converted to a bitmap with smoothed edges. The smoothed edges only show with AlphaBlend otherwise there is no transparency, just jagged pixels.