I’ve found this site http://kvazars.com/littera/ that allows to create atlas images for bitmap font.
I’ve tested it with some open-source/free fonts and it works really well!
The donwloaded .zip contains the image of the font and a text file (in various format). I’ve did a simple test in BlitzMax to read an .xml file (just a ‘scanning’ of the text to retrieve the info I want, no need to strange modules for XML support in this case). Just 10 minutes of work!
Now I’m working to port it in MonkeyX (using mojo2) to try to realize a simple game. (no, more than 10 minutes of work, just 1 hour to find out where is DrawImageRect in mojo2… it’s another overloading method of DrawRect()… ohhh the joy of OOP!)
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