Game Engine Tip - Bitmap Text Object - #gamedev #gdevelop #nocode #tutorial

Pixel art games require crisp edges on your art, so along with turning off linear scaling, using a bitmap font in place of the normal text object can improve the look of text in your pixel art game development. These tutorials are designed to teach you how to make a game in GDevelop, a no-code, open-source, free, and easy game engine.

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[Mordewolt]

that's the other way around - fonts render as heavily processed images with AA and all kinds of subpixel blurs to make it "pop", and more readable even on the smallest scale, however, once you zoom out - all this processing shows itself. However, BitMap is using its namesake - bit map to tell the computer what pixels should be lit and what pixels should not. It's an on and off toggle, no shenanigans. Not to be confused with vector drawing - vector drawing also does that, but it actually continuously redraws images in real time, depending on the scale. No actual imagery is stored in it, just a bunch of vector formulas, that tell the computer how the lines should curve.

[lucasdesouza]

Omg I was struggling with that for so long

[aleksi]

Bitmap text is terribly troublesome to use in my opinion

[VillagerVibes-gl]

How About a 3d editor or maybe a 3d gdevelop5

[PoliThePolarCat]

I can't even find any Bitmap fonts because when I search for some on the web, they're always vector fonts. I either have to make a font using a tilemap, which looks bad, or using a vector font, which also looks bad because I mainly make pixel art games. I also can't load the GDevelop shop to search for fonts there, because my computer is slower than molasses.

[Joaozinpvp]

Ok, so how i add the font?? I've been trying to get the custom font to go for 6 days and it won't!! Tell me how I can add it!! Pls!!

[hundvd_]

Wtf is the normal text doing then?
Why the hell isn't it a font, or some other form of SVG-like?

And when you say "it renders as an image", that's misleading. Pretty sure the issue with the Normal Text is that it renders as a rasterized image. Aka the kind of image most people are familiar with...

And Bitmap Image renders as a—surprise—bitmap image.