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Reputation: 1388

Using fontawesome (icons) in game, in theory

The font-awesome icons are vector based, and from my understanding vector iamges are bad in apps since they are very big (in bytes), is this true for fontawesome icons? In theory, could I use these icons in my game, not only for menu buttons and such, but also for actual game graphics?

I'm planning on doing a very simple game, and I'd hate to get stuck on the design part, not only the drawing of them, but I've had trouble with scaling of images (according to screen size) in the past, vector images would solve this.

I realize icons are not optimal for game graphics, but would it be usable?

Upvotes: 1

Views: 626

Answers (1)

noone
noone

Reputation: 19776

Vector based images are usually smaller than bitmap based images, because they just contain an abstract description of the image content, that can be scaled to virtually any size.

Your graphics card does not understand these kind of image formats though. You would have to convert them to a bitmap based format first, which means you have to set a specific size for the resulting image.

LibGDX offers the FreeType extension, to convert TrueType font files (.ttf) at runtime to a BitmapFont with a specific size, which can then be rendered.

That way you will be able to generate icons on the fly for the correct display size, without having to ship many different versions of them, for different resolutions.

Upvotes: 3

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