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 […]
I’m fairly new to Cocos2d-x programming. This forced me spend some time pondering things that haven’t seemed quite as easy as I would have expected. Therefore, I thought I’d share what I’ve learned in a series of posts. There are also a number of very valuable posts in Chinese which I hope to bring to […]
Well apart from programming Android games … at the moment I find myself learning WordPress. I used to program in raw HTML/CSS but I decided that I should proceed out of the stone age and thus … here I am. Obviously nothing particularly useful at the moment but I plan to add a number of […]
At this point in the process we have a directory full of a full alphabet of letter images and we need to recombine them into a sprite sheet for use in Cocos2d-x, other game engines and elsewhere. We will use the TexturePacker program to create a sprite-sheet PNG file as well as a PLIST index […]
