How are you guys drawing text to screen?

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Chroma(Posted 2013) [#1]
It just dawned on me there's no LoadImageFont in Monkey like in BMax. How are you guys drawing text on the screen?


therevills(Posted 2013) [#2]
FontMachine and such... :)


JD0(Posted 2013) [#3]
Angelfont example included with Monkey... along with Shoebox's free Photoshop font export tool at http://www.renderhjs.net/shoebox/ that supports the AngelFont format.


Paul - Taiphoz(Posted 2013) [#4]
I was using Angelfont but moved to FontMachine.

having used both I would suggest Fontmachine , Angelfont was allways very buggy for me.


Beaker(Posted 2013) [#5]
Taiphoz - what bugs and which version? If I know about them then I can fix them. I'm guessing you are talking about an early version. Have you tried the latest version on the angelfont thread?


wiebow(Posted 2013) [#6]
I load a font image, grab frames, put these in an array, go from there. :)


Chroma(Posted 2013) [#7]
Does FontMachine have Full Justify mode?


Gerry Quinn(Posted 2013) [#8]
I never found bugs in Angelfont except for things missing like offset. It never caused unexpected problems once I got it working (which are the sort of bugs I really care about).


Chroma(Posted 2013) [#9]
Oh I like AngelFont. Had some trouble getting a font imported that I made myself but that was a learning curve. I just need full justify and I'm golden.