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HoboBen
Created : 17 December 2017
Edited : 17 December 2017
Language : Python, C

Bakefont3



bakefont3 on GitHub
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bakefont3 is a python3 module for rasterising font glyphs into a RGBA texture atlas and exporting metrics and kerning information, and a C library for loading that information.

 

Comments
Sunday, 17 December 2017, 17:50
Jayenkai
 		That looks alarmingly complicated!
Sunday, 17 December 2017, 18:08
HoboBen
 		It's not so bad. It's like a big spritesheet!

Look up "a" -> get its position in the spritesheet and what offset to draw it at

Look up "a", "b" -> find out that when you draw them one after each other you need to tweak it so that b moves left one pixel to look nice
Thursday, 21 December 2017, 09:22
HoboBen
 		I've done a full OpenGL example now that uses the data for basic layout and kerning and also does a fancy/ugly gradient (you can change the colours in real time)

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The OpenGL example is about 680 lines, that includes shaders, OpenGL stuff, using bakefont to load saved data
Thursday, 21 December 2017, 09:45
Jayenkai
 		Yup, looks alarmingly complicated
I stuck with a monospaced font, lazy as I am.
Friday, 22 December 2017, 08:12
HoboBen
 		For sure, making this was a bit of a detour from what I was originally working on!

But now that it's finished, I can download a font from fonts.google.com, plop it in, and get results straight away!
Friday, 22 December 2017, 08:14
Jayenkai
 		Kickass!