BMFont program

Has anyone had this problem where you load your icon png files into BMFont and then you set the parameters according to the connect IQ programmers guide and then you visualize. You see your icon fonts. Then, you "save bitmap font as" and when you look at that file, the font icons either look all whited out or all blacked out (except for letter characters you included from the font table). "Visualize" and "Save bitmap font as" do not seem to agree... any help would be appreciated...

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jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to DaveBrillhart +1

Two things about custom fonts come into play - the number of characters and their size (height). Yes, they can be very expensive memory size. Adding a custom font with 96 characters causing a 10k increase…

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HermoT over 5 years ago

Show us some screenshots please, it is hard to "visualize" your issue.

4716774 over 5 years ago

Here are the icons

Here is the visualization screen shot:

Here is the png font file!!

As you can see, they are "whited" out. So I did try reversing the colors and then they ended up being all "blacked" out...

4716774 over 5 years ago

All,

I contacted the developer of BMFont and he helped me fix the problem. He suggested changing the bit depth to 32 bits instead of having it set at 8(I believe the tutorial showed it at 8 bits). Once I did this, the problem went away. Here is the screen shot of the configuration he suggested.

4716774 over 5 years ago in reply to 4716774

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to 4716774

With bmfont, I always just use the defaults for things other than font/height and the export options for text and png. From your screen shout, I noticed you have something for "compression" and I always use "none"

DaveBrillhart over 5 years ago in reply to jim_m_58

I just added another custom font, and my DF size went from 22K to 33K... I just added 96 characters from bmfont, a fraction of the 600+ full set. Ugh.

jim_m_58 over 5 years ago in reply to DaveBrillhart

Two things about custom fonts come into play - the number of characters and their size (height). Yes, they can be very expensive memory size. Adding a custom font with 96 characters causing a 10k increase really doesn't surprise me much unless they are small (low height). Having antialiase=true also causes a noticeable increase in memory.