Fonts

Oxygine supports image-based fonts rendering. Each font should be generated before running your application by BMFont tool. Generated font consists of pair .png + .fnt file. Font could be exported as xml or text format.

BMFont tool is located here: 3rdPartyTools/BMFont/bmfont.exe

for Linux/MacOSX users: BMFont could be launched with Wine. Or you may use other tools like GlyphDesigner or fontbm.

Exporting fonts

1. Run bmfont.exe

2. Select required symbols

3. Select font, size and other settings

4. Export it (Menu->Options->Save Bitmap Font As) to folder with your app resources and add it to resources xml file

   <font file="myfont.fnt" />

see examples/HelloWorld/data/res.xml

Advanced usage

Fonts could be automatically generated from BMFont configuration files (.bmfc) by oxyresbuild tool.

Add this line to resources xml:

<bmfc_font file="main.bmfc" chars="eng.txt"/>

see examples/Demo/data/demo/fonts.xml

Where:

• file="main.bmfc" is your BMFont configuration file
• chars="eng.txt" is file (TF-16 LE encoding) with text (symbols) to export

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