Spritesheets as fonts, or how to use bitmap fonts?

Radiowaves

A lot of people make pixel art games, including me. My game window size is 320x320px, which is just scaled up. But I do not want to use dynamic fonts, I want it to be true pixel art, so I either need to use FNT files (like DOS uses) or make my own font files from spritesheet. But how can I do this? I have drawn out my font in PNG spritesheet.

As an artist I have previous experience in Construct 2, there I could just import a spritesheet, set in the parameters cell size (even cells, totally fine) and type in letters corresponding to cells. Is there similar option in GoDot?

I read that to use bitmap fonts I need an XML file and compile it to FNT, but so far I have not found a program that can take PNG and make FNT. XML I could create if I could only know what the context is supposed to be and how ro actually use it in GoDot.

This is currently main thing holding me back using GoDot with my one project.

TwistedTwigleg

I have not used BitMap fonts myself, but here are some resources that may be worth looking into:

What tools are you using to create bitmap fonts usable by GoDot ? - Godot Forums
Bitmap font creator - Godot Asset Library
How to make "Bitmap font" ? - Godot Q&A

Edit: Also, welcome to the forums!

Radiowaves

Thank you, but I have looked all of these links and searched for hours before posting here.

I have Bitmap Font Creator plugin, but I do not understand how to use it. -- Do I really have to insert each letter manually? I got it to "work", it creates .tres file, but when I drag the .tres file to Label, it accepts but text does not appear. Tres content is follows:

`[gd_resource type="BitmapFont" load_steps=2 format=2]

[ext_resource path="res://letters 1/dosfont.png" type="Texture" id=1]

[resource] textures = [ ExtResource( 1 ) ] chars = PoolIntArray( 32, 0, 16, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 33, 0, 24, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 34, 0, 32, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 35, 0, 40, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 36, 0, 48, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 37, 0, 56, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 38, 0, 64, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 30, 0, 0, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 39, 0, 72, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8, 31, 0, 8, 0, 8, 8, 0, 0, 8 )`

So it is basically sames as:

var font = BitmapFont.new() font.add_texture(texture) font.set_height(9) font.add_char(KEY_A,0,Rect2(Vector2( 1, 1),Vector2(7,9))) ... ResourceSaver.save("res://fonts/font.tres",font)

I inserted numbers in it manually, but typing them out on label displays nothing. If I knew how this tres would work, I would just create this file manually and just put it into folder.

I also have Bitmap Font Cutter plugin enabled, but I can not find it anywhere/do not know how to use it.

BMfont program will rasterize True-Type vector fonts to FNT, but one can not create own font from drawing. I have made my own vector fonts before, using FontLab, where bitmap fonts are also possible, but I do not wish to do so again for what seems as a simple task (there is no kerning, no vectors and uses only 1 image!).

All I want is a texture sheet with transparent background (.PNG) that is divided into 10x10 8x8px cells to be divided up into letters: " 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz.,;:-+/=_*?!#$()[]<>{}%"'&@~^|`\▮" -- order not important, I can list them in standard unicode order also, but in that case there will be lots of empty space in texture since I do not need al 255 unicode characters...

Radiowaves

Ok, an update:

I managed to write my own tool for this, in gdscript. Works perfectly as expected. This was my first godot project.

This tool allows user to make a bitmapfont by adding a character sheet, and typing out all the characters in correct order to a field (like in Construct 2/3).

EDIT: Here is assetlib link: https://godotengine.org/asset-library/asset/760