Plugin: import bitmap fonts from plain old PNG images

snoopdouglas

Hello! This is my first post here, and likewise I wanted to share my first submission to the asset lib.

This is the Godot Allegro Bitmap Font Importer Plugin. Given a set of glyphs, it allows you to import fonts from PNGs that you can make in any old image editor. I'm hoping this'll be particularly useful for custom pixel fonts. No BMFont required here!

Your fonts have to be arranged in a specific format, so make sure to look over the readme first.

The format is identical to that of the Allegro library's al_grab_font_from_bitmap function, hence the plugin's unwieldy name.

Hope somebody finds this useful. Feedback is of course welcome.

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cybereality

Cool.

boruok

at last!

snoopdouglas

I've published v1.1.0, which just adds a few flags for the generated ImageTexture (see the above screenshot).

PabloDev

What?... wait a... woow!... i have to try this thanks!

boruok

@snoopdouglas what Every other element of 'ranges' must be higher than its predecessor (';' vs '!')" means?

ranges=PoolStringArray( "A", "B", "C", "D", "E", "F", "G", "H", "I", "J", "K", "L", "M", "N", "O", "P", "Q", "R", "S", "T", "U", "V", "W", "X", "Y", "Z", "0", "1", "2", "3", "4", "5", "6", "7", "8", "9", " ", ".", ",", ":", ";", "!", "\?", "-", "_", "\"", "%", "/", "(", ")", "=", "\'", "^", "+", "*", "#" )

everyting looks right to me.

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nevermind, forgot to read line Each pair of strings in 'Ranges' defines an inclusive range of Unicode characters to import from the image