Sons of Camelot: Fonts

Fonts

We will use font “D3 Rabbitmapism” very nice and looks as the original font.

To find this font, I use MAME to get original font screen (MAME  / load game / F4 / ENTER / move in game until fint font screen). Then I capture this screen:
Now we take some characters (i.e. from A to G) with any bitmap program like Windows Paint, save file. Then browse to http://www.whatfontis.com/  and it will search for similar fonts, we look for “free” fonts only.

After that, I installed this font to Windows (right click + install).
Then use program Bitmap Font Creator (link) and create new font using this parameters:

Font tab

Size: 20
Bold-Italic-Antialias: NO
Fill mode:Gradient, Gradiente1 ( color1: white, color2: RGB(202,203,177) )

Special Effects tab
Outline: 2
Shadow: NO

Then go to Generate Tab and push Go! (new file in desk named output.png). Check file size  H x W (we will use later).

Go to GM make new font, Edit Sprite+File/Create from Stripe.

Import Menu: We write down there are 95 images, 10 each row.
To put "Image width" e "image height" we divide file size by 10.

In example, if file size is 940x770px, then we use 94px y 77px in GM .

Very important, delete first image (must be an empty image in white).
Now we can use this font, adding this in new font object:

fntBitmapFont = font_add_sprite(test2, ord("!"), 1, 1);
draw_set_font(fntBitmapFont);
draw_text_color(150,150, "Texto de ejemplo", c_white, c_white, c_white, c_white,1);

VERY IMPORTANT: This font object must be added to any ROOM we use it.


Short Phrases


If we don't need or want to use a full font in our game, we can generate phrases with Bitmap Font Creator program and create small bitmaps with these phrases.

To do it, open the program, choose a font, configure font and then click in Phrases:


Write down all needed phrases.


Done, then click in Generate, select Phrases and choose output folder.
Finally click en Go!

We have our bitmaps to be imported by GM.

Important:
Phrases in Bitmap Font Creator CAN'T be edit or manage, only deleted.
To save phrases and font config: File + save project.

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