A bitmap font asset importer for the Duality game engine

• Generate the image (see Editors below)
• Drag and drop both the png (currently only supports pngs) and the xml bmfont file into Duality
• Create a TextRenderer and allocate the font to it (or just drag the font onto the scene)

The following links are to editors (some online, some not) which should be supported to some extent or another.

• Online

• http://kvazars.com/littera/

• https://www.glyphite.com/editor

• Desktop

  • Bitmap Font Generator - http://www.angelcode.com/products/bmfont/ - make sure you use 32 bit depth, png file, and xml file type. White on alpha is the best preset. (check http://mika76.github.io/duality-bitmapfont-importer/bmfont_settings.png)

• Editors with currently un-supported file formats

  • Ultimate Bitmap Font Generator - https://github.com/scriptum/UBFG (very interesting tool but totally different file format)
  • Font Studio - https://bitbucket.org/mikepote/font-studio
  • Bitmap Font Builder - http://www.lmnopc.com/bitmapfontbuilder/ - old VB6 tool - doubt there is a need to support this one
  • Codehead’s Bitmap Font Generator - http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/

• Found but don't know much about yet

  • ShoeBox - http://renderhjs.net/shoebox/
  • Sprite Font Generator - https://www.scirra.com/forum/sprite-font-generator-v2_t86546

Current Requirements

• Use Padding
• Use XML BMFont format (currently only one supported)
• Save to transparent png file