Game Font Generator – BMFont
Somebody may face the difficult of drawing text by using directX or OpenGL directly. We have to generate character bitmap then use it as texture for showing texts.
BMFont helps us with this task. BMFont provides both GUI window mode and command line mode. In GUI window mode, you can tick what character you need to generate, you will receive a png format font image and configuration file for accessing the font image.
Command line mode is suitable for automatic generating purpose. For example, you write an Unicode encoded text file with the text that you need to display. Then use command line to generate. For example:
bmfont.com -c config.bmfc -o gamefont.fnt -t text.txt
This command line tell bmfont load config.bmfc and output as gamefont.fnt while all characters present in the text.txt will be added to the font.