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Felipe
Felipe

Reputation: 510

Cocos2d Font Extensions Issues

Good afternoon, sports!

I have a fast doubt. I'm using COCOS2D and i need to know if i can use other extension type of font other than ".fnt". Because i used a few and didn't have any luck.

I'm using this piece of code to make a "credits" scene:

CCBitmapFontAtlas* l_026  = [CCBitmapFontAtlas bitmapFontAtlasWithString:@"Look for our apps in the AppStore"   fntFile:@"fission.fnt"];

If it isn't which can i use? And it is do you know any font converter to change "normal fonts" to ".fnt"

Thanks!

Upvotes: 1

Views: 594

Answers (2)

Lukman
Lukman

Reputation: 19164

If you have some cash to spend you can use Glyph Designer as suggested by Aaron. But you can also use a free Java tool named Hiero. You might have to do some tweaking to get the result you want though.

The tool will output 2 files: one .png and another .fnt. Add these files into your Xcode project and use it using simple lines like below:

CCLabelBMFont *some_label = [CCLabelBMFont labelWithString:@"Your Text" fntFile:@"fontfile.fnt"];

Do note though that the size of the font from each pair of fnt/png files is fixed, so you have to create multiple pairs if you want to have different font sizes. Also, you need separate pair for Retina and non-Retina display modes.

Upvotes: 0

Aaron Goselin
Aaron Goselin

Reputation: 634

The best font program in my opinion is: Glyph Designer. It is inexpensive and very easy to make great looking fonts.

I use CCLabelBMFont but I'm pretty sure it is basically the same thing.

Upvotes: 1

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