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2D All the way! / Bitmapped Fonts

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MrTAToad
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Does anyone know if theres a web site for downloading bitmapped fonts (and not bitmap fonts), ie fixed-sized fonts that are created & stored in bitmap files.
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Richard Davey
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You talking about bitmapped true type fonts? Or fonts like you used to see in the old ST/Amiga demos flying around the screen?

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 29th Aug 2002 18:17
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Old style ST/Amiga/C64 fonts...

I dont really want to use TT fonts as a) usage can be slow b) not everyone wants a new font added to their system, c) most are not fixed font, and d) I'll want to do special effects with them (maybe)

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Martyn Pittuck
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Why not open up a font and then take a screni?

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MrTAToad
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What I might actually do is stick all the characters into Cinema 4D, position the camera and save the bitmap from there.

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ESC
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I actually just downloaded one from the showcase thingy at nehe.gamedev.net It's 2-3 pages back

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 30th Aug 2002 00:19
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Might be worth looking at - thanks

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Richard Davey
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Posted: 30th Aug 2002 05:19
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MrToad - I have loads of the type of bitmap fonts that you want. Email me and I'll send you a zip file full of 'em. I also have a few programs that will turn TTF fonts into bitmap images, properly spaced out so they all fit neatly.

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MrTAToad
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ooh thanks! An e-mail will be bouncing its way to you later.

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I know exactly what you mean. I have seen some great librarys out there, but I can't find them now :S
Keep looking!

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Richard Davey
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I've already sent those guys hundreds of fonts 2D roooooooooockkkksss...

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MrTAToad
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And very useful they'll be too... thanks

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=P i want the fonts... send me some... hehehe i ended up making my own poor ones once... O_O i dont want a game that looks like that again heh...
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MrTAToad
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If Rich doesn't mind (and he hasn't send them already), I'm sure I could e-mail them to you

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I have some old amiga fonts sets with differents sizes : 8x8 , 16x16 , 32x32 pixels wide.

If you're interested , tell me and I'll send you them.
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MrTAToad
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Would be nice!

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fonts sets . . . .
. . . . launched . . . .
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MrTAToad
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Darth Puff

If you want the fonts, send me your e-mail address

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This could be interesting...
If you don't mind, would you send some to cyclane@bemail.org?

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TheCyborg
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I'm making some kind'a Tetris game.
And Bitmap fonts is just what i need,
so plz send me some.

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 7th Oct 2002 15:46
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They're bouncing towards to now.

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I've recieved a mail from you MrTAToad!
BUT the zip wich was attached was corupted.
I downloaded it serveral times without luck.
Please send it again, as rar archive or extracted.

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MrTAToad
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Okay - I'll do that today

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Flashing Blade
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could you send me a copy plz mrTOToad - i just sent u an e-mail

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MrTAToad
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Posted: 29th Oct 2002 22:21
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Yes, you should have it by now.

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Flashing Blade
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thnx muchly kind sir - i just received.
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I haven't recieved anything yet. Try sending it again. If I get it to work, I'm gonna place it on my website and place a link here so you don't have to send it to everybody all the time (if you allow me).

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MrTAToad
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TheCyborg - I've sent another e-mail. Hopefully, you'll get it this time.

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=) hey could you bounce those this way... darthpuff@puffinteractive.com =) ... oh yes ive been workin hard on the darkhalf... and on my new ws... and a lil particle editor for my boss who doesnt have dbpro or db... or c++.. or nething heh... www.puffinteractive.com tell me what you think.... i updated for the first time in 8 months with a complete website rebuild
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okay

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thx nice fonts =)

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No I did not recieve anything either this time!?!
are you sure you typed in my mail correct ???

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I'll try again - are you sure you've got your e-mail correct ???

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You can download them all from:

http://www.darkforge.co.uk/files/DBPRO/

1.1meg ZIP file - lots of fonts in there, lots of styles and all the ones I originally sent MrTAToad.

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hey rich whatever happened to making me a mod???... oh well... you said when there was enough people... i guess you find me too immature or somethign... =\

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My friends sends me E-Mails all the time. My mail is not wrong.

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Well, at least you'll be able to download them darkforge now...

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I'll do that.

thx

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Cool retro bitmapped fonts there rich

I'm doing my own right now, and it's alot of work if u
do them from scratch. I'm looking for something a bit
more modern looking, haven't found much on the net.

A word of warning: Obviosly if u are going to use bitmapped-
fonts u need to make u're own text-engine (well,sort of),
and if it is like mine which uses PASTE IMAGE to output
BMap-text (1 char/time) to the screen u cant output to much text at once, it simply gets to slow.

Any chance of a PASTE IMAGE performance increase in the near future?

...And a BitMapFontDLL would be very valuable, any up to the task?
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Create a sprite from them...

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paste image/sprite same thing & performance, at least on my machine.
I've tryed several methods (thurst me), Paste Image works best for me.
Eventually I'll try with memblocks\lock pixels which I expect to perform much better with heavy text output.
For now my bitmap text functions works ok, for
normal game text output like score, hiscore, name etc.,
still got about 950fps to go on average output of 200 characters.
which is not much but, suffice
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Even with "heavy" text output I still know you can throw hundreds of sprites onto the screen and still have a decent frame rate in DBPro. Bassi is right about the sprite/image differences though - there aren't any

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