Outlined bitmap fonts

Ixuss_MyGUI

24-08-2015 10:41:43

I created bitmap font by Font Editor (MyGUI 3.2.2).
After I tried to make it outlined (by Stroke effect in Photoshop). However, the stroke line (3 px) does not fit into the character position in font PNG-file.
How can I make more space for characters in Font Editor for making a character stroke?

Altren

24-08-2015 23:44:58

There is Distance parameter for this.

Ixuss_MyGUI

25-08-2015 10:23:35

There is Distance parameter for this.
Distance parameter includes only character space, no free space at left/right for stroke creating.
Besides, characters begin at position 0 and necessary to displace all the characters to the right and downwards and thus recalculate all coordinates of all characters :(
Maybe you know another (more simple) method to create font with a stroke?

Altren

25-08-2015 17:08:01

Yesterday I fixed issue with no distance between left and top texture edges.
I'm not sure, but may be it make sense to include half of this distance into glyph, so that you will have bigger area for each glyph, but with same spacing. The problem is that this need to be done either by editing xml or changing generator code.

Ixuss_MyGUI

25-08-2015 21:58:57

Today I tried to change FontEditor code for making shifted glyphs. I added half of shift distance into glyphs.
After this I shifted layer of PNG in photoshop and add stroke effect. The result is a very nice outlined font :)
Thanx!

Altren

27-08-2015 10:51:11

Could you show a screenshot.

Ixuss_MyGUI

28-08-2015 09:21:01

Here it is!