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Question about fonts

Started by dev578 Apr 13, 2005 at 5:20 PM 4 replies 650+ views

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Apr 13, 2005 at 5:20 PM

For my game, I am going to make my own font system. I have a bitmap of all the characters. Since the characters are evenly spaced out, it is not too hard to get a RECT structure for any of the characters. My problem now is getting the characters to a texture (LPDIRECT3DTEXTURE9?). Anyone know a good way of doing this? Any help is appreciated, as always:) -Dev578

count0

Apr 13, 2005 at 6:03 PM

Have a look of d3dfont.h{cpp} in D3D8's framework, it does exacly what you want. And it should be very easy to migrate the code to d3d9.

Muhammad Haggag

Apr 13, 2005 at 6:43 PM

If you're using Direct3D9, try ID3DXFont first. If it works well for you, use it.

dev578

Apr 14, 2005 at 4:57 PM

Thank you Coder, but I wan't to try to avoid using ID3DXFont. Anyone know where I can get a copy of d3dfont.h/cpp? I would like to take a look at it to see how it is done, but I don't want to download the entire DirectX 8 SDK.

-Dev578

Muhammad Haggag

Apr 14, 2005 at 5:32 PM

d3dfont.h
d3dfont.cpp

Out of curiosity, why avoid ID3DXFont?

EDIT: The files above won't compile on their own. They include other files - Here.

dev578

Apr 14, 2005 at 5:45 PM

No reason really, theres nothing wrong with ID3DXFont, I just want to have another learning experience. Thank you for the files:)

-Dev578

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