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Started 5 months ago by Tapouillo
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Tapouillo
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Hi everyone,

I wanted to introduce to the cocos2d community, a new 'ttf to bitmap' tool, available on the mac app store: bmGlyph. (to use with CCLabelBMFont)

It currently support the export for cocos2d (.fnt file), and have realtime rendering, a preview mode and many features: cast shadow, stroke, colors (plain, glossy), gradient and you can even import your own texture which will be applied on each glyph. It is also possible to work on each glyph without affecting the others (for exemple, having different colors for numbers etc...). The texture is resized automatically according to the settings, and an AutoSD option is available, which allow you to easily create bitmap fonts for retina display.

More information and screenshots, and link to the mac app store: on the website http://www.bmglyph.com .

hope you will enjoy it !

Posted 5 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

v1.1 is now out with new features requested by bmGlyph users, and some bug fixes (export preview as png, quality format when downscaling to SD, custom shadow colors, float precision for stroke, ...).
here is 3 promocodes for the cocos2d community, please reply with the code you took:
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Posted 4 months ago #
yadongliu
Member

Took 6LEHAJN7PHRE

This is a great tool. Thanks!

Posted 4 months ago #
mrdckx
Member

Promo codes are gone :(

I want to create a bitmap where each character has the same width. Is that possible with bmGlyph? Are there other tools you know that can do that before using bmGlyph?

Posted 4 months ago #
David994A
Member

@Tapouillo, I just downloaded and trid bmGlyph out - it's very cool! Would you consider adding a gradient fill to the stroke in addition to the fill?

Posted 4 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

David: yes, actually this is already on my todo list.

mrdckx: the character width depends on the font itself, and you currently can't make a fixed width for all char. maybe you should find a ttf with a fixed width. we could think about an option to force the width and advancement of each character...

Posted 4 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

the V1.2 update is now available and comes with 2 new features: gradient for stroke, and kernings. several bugs have been fixed and i also spent time on glyph aligments which is now much more accurate especially with small font size.

Posted 4 months ago #
Daniel López
Member

The best one I've ever seen so far

Posted 4 months ago #
mrdckx
Member

@Tapouillo Now I just set the fixed width manually in the fnt file. It would be a handy option though.

Posted 3 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

@mrdckx: yes, it's on my todo list, this feature will probably be in the next version :)

Posted 3 months ago #
meno
Member

i really like to try it without buying it instantly. is there some sort of trial version?

Posted 3 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

not for the moment but i'm planning to do it in the coming weeks.

Posted 3 months ago #
6foot3foot
Member

Just picked this up as Hiero has been a battle for last 2 years. This worked instantly, excellent results. Priced just right it's a must buy in my opinion, you just saved way too many hours and headaches with other tools.

Just FYI I can't select 24pt font, 23->25, trivial but just to put in your issue queue.

Posted 3 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

bmGlyph v1.3 is now available. some bugs fixes and new feature. you can now increase the char bounding box (it allows to make additional work on the texture with other tools, like adding glow effects etc...), the font size is now also manually editable to avoid gaps when playing with the slider.

Posted 3 months ago #
tpbradley
Member

Hi meno,

You could try out Glyph Designer, the original native bitmap font tool for OSX.

http://glyphdesigner.71squared.com/

Glyph designer comes with a wide range of features. Some of which are

Realtime Rendering
Preview Mode with Export to PNG
Inner & Outer Shadows
Stroke Color or Gradient
Outline Width, Roughness, Join Style, Mitre Limit, Style (inner/outer/center)
Fill Color or Gradient
Texture resizing
Fixed Width Fonts
Loading External Fonts
Changing Included Glyph Set
External Texture Editing
Kerning & Anti-Alias
Background Image in Preview Mode
Searchable Font List with Font Preview

Hope you enjoy it!

Posted 3 months ago #
meno
Member

Glyph Designer looks great but its price is a bit too steep for me at the moment. maybe when i have a commercial project again.

Posted 3 months ago #
David994A
Member

I've been using bmGlyph for the past few weeks now and it works great, worth every penny!

Posted 3 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

tpbradley: this thread has been opened about bmGlyph ... i didn't go and post on your own thread to make advertising about bmGlyph.

i see you also did the same on other framework forum (unity). should i do the same ?

Posted 3 months ago #
Daniel López
Member

Yeah Bradly, That's unfair...

Posted 3 months ago #
Studder
Member

@tdbradley a little below the belt don't you think?

Posted 3 months ago #
David994A
Member

Yes, @tpbradley this was inappropriate.

The last thing we want here is another Texture Packer vs. Zwoptex thread.

Posted 3 months ago #
tpbradley
Member

Ok, my mistake....

Won't happen again ;)

Posted 3 months ago #
Stephen Morris
Member

Eh?!

What happened to the original post Bradley, I was expecting some great fireworks!!! It was a well thought out argument and fantastic stand. I'm not one to incite but, dammit, let's have some drama!

Posted 3 months ago #
Tapouillo
Member

v1.5 is available and comes with new features:
Fixed width size (actually the xadvance parameter) which allow better HUD display with numbers
. Inner/Outer Shadow (not yet both at the same time)
. Inner/Outer/Center stroke
. Miter limit adjust
. Preview mode: use of ‘\n’ allowed
. Increased max texture size to 4096
. Increased max font size to 800
. iPad3 resolution support & autoHD/SD (bmGlyph can now generates 3 sets of files for iPad3/iPhone retina/iPhone)
. Editable xadvanced offset (not only with the slider)
. Font weight parameter (was 5), can be from 1 to 15

Posted 1 month ago #

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