I'm using SFML 1.6 to make a small game, and I need to display some text, so I use the sf::String class. The problem is, when I increase the size to 96pt, the edges appear a little blurry. When I increase the size of text in Microsoft Word though, it appears very clean and has crisp edges. Is there a way to do that with SFML?
Looking at the SFML sources, it appears that it is using the embedded Arial font. Yes, it can also load the .ttf font file, but I guess you didn't load it yet.
So the problem is tht SFML tries to scale the fixed-size bitmap when you are rendering the text.
To get rid of the aliasing try following this sample http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.4/graphics-fonts.php and load the .ttf manually.
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I am working on an embedded platform (STM32F407) with a TFT LCD as a display (480x800px) and would like to make my user interface somewhat customizable to the end user. I figured the best source of fonts would be windows compatible as their the most common.
My current implementation uses my own custom drawn font in a binary format and a descriptor table giving the character width and ascii value but having to draw my own font bit by bit is tedious.
I would like to read in a True Type Font file from an SD card and be able to use the different sized glyphs inside it but I have not seen a strait forward implementation on how to actually achieve this magic. Can somebody point me to a good c/c++ example of what I am looking for?
Even better as a way to iron out the kinks I would like to make a simple gcc command line program that will print out my input with a selected font using '#' as pixels. That way I can just worry about implementation and not any other random bugs that might pop up.
Can anybody help me out?
Perhaps you can use the Freetype library.
As duskwuff says: TTF is primarily a vector format, would need to write a renderer. Better off using an image file to define the font, or using a bitmap font format like FNT (Windows) or BDF (UNIX).
Here is my answer to my own question: AngelCode's BMFont & Useage. This makes choosing selective characters from the installed char set, mix in a font and exports an image with a map file to each character. Simple to use.
i know this seems to be a weird question, and it is! But taking advantage of the already installed fixed-width fonts of windows (ex: Fixedsys) i would save a lot of size (since i want to make the final EXE as small as possible)
Whats the best way to get the BITMAP (or the bits array) from an existent (already installed) raster/bitmap font on windows? Or theres no way to do it and i have to make a bmp file with all the letters and load as an resource?
And yes, i am trying making small executables as 16kbs, size counts A LOT!
Thanks for your attention, i hope i explained it right :)
It is possible: Create a DC, attach your bitmap and the font, render the font into the bitmap, detach and destroy the DC. You are left with a bitmap containing the letters you drawn with the font.
I assume you are familiar with GDI to accomplish the above. If not, find a good tutorial on GDI.
So, I was trying to make game in allegro but I'm currently stuck with this damn blank background which is making me very mad, as I know PNG images have transparency in the background already, but I can't load pngs, i have already download devpaks, installed libraries and stilll nothing good happened, if the best option for me is to use PNG so please tell me how to load then and use then correctly.
If the best option is still to use BMP and there is a algorithm, function or a little code which will make the blank background go away please tell me.
For those who didn't understand what I want there is a better explanation:
http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-r9BaUuMLirc/ThjzRHOMBKI/AAAAAAAAAJI/kUilPnIPJLg/s400/bola_azul.png
its currently in .png, but I transformed to .bmp in paint, so it makes me a blank background and in allegro it shows the whole picture, i want to have only the ball.
As you've commented, with Allegro 4, the color 0xFF00FF is treated as transparent when used with masked_blit() or draw_sprite().
To load PNGs in Allegro 4, you'll want to use loadpng with libpng. You can use the 8-bit alpha channel by enabling the alpha blender with set_alpha_blender().
If you're just starting out, you should be using Allegro 5, which has a modern API and native support for PNG files.
I'm using SFML 1.6 to make a small game, and I need to display some text, so I use the sf::String class. The problem is, when I increase the size to 96pt, the edges appear a little blurry. When I increase the size of text in Microsoft Word though, it appears very clean and has crisp edges. Is there a way to do that with SFML?
Looking at the SFML sources, it appears that it is using the embedded Arial font. Yes, it can also load the .ttf font file, but I guess you didn't load it yet.
So the problem is tht SFML tries to scale the fixed-size bitmap when you are rendering the text.
To get rid of the aliasing try following this sample http://www.sfml-dev.org/tutorials/1.4/graphics-fonts.php and load the .ttf manually.
I am trying to use glutStrokeString using freeglut.
The program runs fine up to the point it has to call glutStrokeString, then it outputs the console freeglut stroke font not found.
Any idea why?
GLUT_BITMAP_HELVETICA_18, as the name suggests, is a bitmap font. You can't use them with the Stroke rendering commands. So if you want to use that font, you have to use glutBitmapString.
FreeGLUT comes with two stroke fonts: GLUT_STROKE_ROMAN and GLUT_STROKE_MONO_ROMAN. So if you want to use the stroke commands to render the fonts, you have to use one of those kinds of fonts.
Just check out the file, gluit/freeglut_font.c, in your glut source code, contains everything you need to know, Also check fghFontByID() and fghStrokeByID() which are actually used to computed the font id for both the functions that is glutBitmapString() & glutStrokeString()
or check out this