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From: "Craig Graham" <c_graham@hinge.mistral.co.uk>
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Subject: Re: how made his own font ?
Date: 5 Aug 1998 11:11:40 GMT
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James Russell <James_Russell@scee.sony.co.uk> wrote in article
<35C82DDB.3E12E37C@scee.sony.co.uk>...
> MAGNIER Francis wrote:
> > 
> > I don't know how made his own font ,
> > I suppose there is an array ,
> > but how many cells horizontal and vertical ?
> 
> It depends on how many characters you want. Do you want the entire ASCII
alphabet, or just the
> letters? Do you want both uppercase and lowercase? Do you need
punctuation, like '!', '.', etc..?
> 
> Once you've decided what characters you want, this determines the maximum
size of your font. Most
> people would go into a graphics program like Photoshop, Paint Shop Pro or
Dpaint and create a
> 256x256 image containing all the letters of your font in a grid. This
implies that all your letters
> are the same width/height. The size of the grid depends on how many
characters are in your font. If
> you had 256 characters, then the grid would be 8x8, with each cell in the
grid being 8x8 pixels. But
> if you have just numbers and letters, thats 10 (0-9) + 26 (A-Z) = 36, so
you could have a 6x6 grid,
> with each cell being 42x42!

An extention of this is to have an additional array of character widths, to
give your font that
nice proportional look:

> SetUpGsSprite(&FontSprite);	// Set up the tpage, width, height, etc. This
only has to be done once
> in the program
> 

unsigned char font_width_table[256]={/*and array of character widths goes
here*/};

> void printString(char *string, int x, int y) {
> 
> 	FontSprite.x = x;
> 	FontSprite.y = y;
> 
> 	while(*string) {	// while there are still characters in the string
> 		if(*string != ' ') {	// Skip spaces
> 			CharToUV(*string, &FontSprite.u, &FontSprite.v); // Calculate the
proper UV
> 			GsSortSprite(&FontSprite, My orderingtable, my priority);
> 		}
		FontSprite.x += font_width_table[*string];	// proportional spaced width
of the letter
> 		//FontSprite.x += FONT_GRID_WIDTH;	// The width of a letter
> 		string++;
> 	}
> }
> 
> 
> James

Craig.