curry-game

Bitmap Font Importer

A Godot plugin for importing bitmap images as a Bitmap Fonts for use in Godot themes.

Usage

Before the plug-in can be used, ensure it's enabled in the Project Settings window

Image format

• The tool supports any bitmap image that Godot supports
• All glyphs (characters) need to be the same width and height, but can be organized into rows and columns as you see fit
• There musn't be any spacing between rows or columns
• Each row or column does not need to be filled
• A space character should be included
• Transparency is supported

Creating a new font resource

There are multiple ways to go about creating a new resource, but this is the workflow I use:

• In the FileSystem pane, right click and select Create new resource
• Select BitmapFontImporter As the resource type
• Choose a path and filename for the resource to be saved as (I prefer to use the .font file extension)
• Open the new resource from the FileSystem pane
• Click and drag your font sheet into the texture field in the Inspector pane
• Set the Character Width and Character Height in the Inspector pane
• Set the Height to be the same as the Character Height to prevent strange behaviour

Using the new resource in a theme

Once the resource is finished, it can be used as any font in a theme simply by Clicking and dragging the resource from the FileSystem pane to the font field in the Inspector pane of the selected theme.