Coding Insights
In this post I’ll take you through the process of producing a gold colored font similar to what I’ve used in my own apps. First the alphabet: We need a string of characters separated by one or more spaces (I used 4 in the example below to properly separate the characters) to use in Gimp […]
An image of the linear alphabet isn’t going to do us much good so we need to split it down into individual letters. Splitting Into Individual Letters: To split this long image of the alphabet into individual characters I created a ‘bash'(linux) script. It uses the Image-Magick ‘convert’ program to do two things. First convert […]
This article describes the process of creating a bitmap’d font, using the GIMP image editor, the image-magick suite, and some home-brewed C-code. It also describes how to use the font in the Cocos2d-x/Android-Studio development environment. For this project you will need: Bash (Sorry, moved from MSWindows to Ubuntu and have never looked back – script […]
The goal of this post is to demonstrate how to generate a bitmap font in a PNG file with a PLIST xml descriptor file for use in Cocos2d-x programs. I’ll describe a no-cost method suitable for a beginning or hobby game programmer but useful across the spectrum. My system is an Ubuntu/linux system and the […]
Well it took me a while but I managed to get Hexing up on the Google Play Store again. Who would have thought just adding a privacy statement could have been such an ordeal. It all started way back when … Trippy Feet: Well, I should mention first that in the following recollection I probably […]
BNFC is a great tool but it has some quirks that have slowed down the process of building a front-end for my fortran2c translator. However, the code generation, especially if you haven’t built a compiler before moves you quite a distance forward. Here’s what I’ve found so far… Position dependent code: First, in the lexical […]
