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Write a Bitmap Font Importer

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#286 opened on Feb 14, 2016

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Description

The current way of importing Fonts into Duality is working, but quite limited and a bit buggy at times due to less-than-ideal Font handling in GDI+ / System.Drawing. A viable alternative would potentially improve usability and at the same time provide a sample on how to write custom Bitmap Font Importers.

Pick a commonplace bitmap font generator and implement a custom importer for it. Specifically, the AngelCode Bitmap Font Generator looks quite good.

This can be done easily in a distinct plugin and no special core code is necessary for this.

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Research direction
Study the AngelCode Bitmap Font Generator specification, examine existing Duality plugin examples, and implement a custom importer following the plugin architecture.
Tech stack
csharp
Domain
game dev
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Feature
DifficultyEstimated implementation difficulty for a new contributor, from 1 for very small changes to 5 for expert-level work.
2
Estimated timeA rough time range for an experienced contributor to investigate, implement, test, and prepare a pull request.
1-3 hours
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Active
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Clear
Prerequisites
C#Duality
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70