Want some Bitmap Fonts ?
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| Bitmap fonts are faster in games than the Text command, and Text sometimes isn't even supported on old graphics cards. So this is where bitmap fonts come in to play! I've written a set of functions and a FREE application to create colourful and funky bitmap fonts with ease! All the commands are easy to remember: LoadBMPFont, BMPText, BMPStringWidth, etc etc.. 2D Features: - Included font designer to create and save bitmap fonts - Variable-width fonts - WRAPPED text, using BMPText( font, x, y, text$, h_centre, v_centre, WIDTH ) - Essential BMPFontHeight and BMPStringWidth commands.. 3D Features: - Save fonts as textures for use in 3D - Create single-surface, multiline meshes from bmp-font textures FontCreator features: - Load and Save BMP fonts (Save as Image or Texture) - Gradient colours of fonts, and outlines - Extended character support - Variable or Fixed width - "Texture-limit" guidelines to get the best filesize Screenshots:     DOWNLOAD IT FROM HERE! http://www.blitzcoder.com/cgi-bin/showcase/showcase_showentry.pl?id=cyberseth05162003013142&comments=no BMP fontlib is freeware, you can use it as much as you like at no cost. But, if you're a kindhearted chap it would be nice to give me a mention for helping you out! My email is cybersethxp@... |
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| Perhaps this should be in the "User products" forum, but it certainly looks interesting... I will take a look at it ;) One point of criticism, on this moment... Your samples fonts are all from "an earlier version", and thus not loadable... Maybe you should put in some samples that WILL load... :| |
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| Ah yeah well I thought it would be useful to beginners. But if mods want to move it, let them move it. |
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| This looks really useful. I'll have to play with it some. It doesn't look as powerful as FONText (which I already have) but, from skimming the ReadMe, looks a little easier to use. |
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| I HATE ADVERTISEMENT... :D But in this case seth is right, the lib is quite nice! So help me pushing seth to keep on improving it. :)))))))))))) BTW: Cardwar makes use of these funcs too. |
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| Looks like a nice program, but I would really move the options you have being set via the menu onto a dialog of some kind. Constantly pulling down menus gets tiresome. |
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