I know that there are two methods for displaying the texts
- true type fonts, just like the ones used by Windows.
- bitmap fonts; a set of characters that is read from a bitmap file.

how could these methods help me to display my arabic character for example ?

thanks
wesam

السلام عليكم، تقدر بكل سهولة انك تستعمل الترو تايب وتكتب الحروف العربية على طول، وراح ينفع. Any moderator please enable the Unicode in this thread.

ok , sounds great. but how can I do that ?

do I need to only write the name of the true type font in my system or should I load in a apecific location inside the 3Dstudio engin's path ?

if you want to use truetype fonts in gs, they must be installed on your system (in the windows font folder). Because of that when publishing the game, you have to make sure, that the font is installed by the installer.

ok , allright , I'll give myself the try to chech this .

thanks scoprion

You'll have to use Arial Unicode.

I have used this font but the letters dosn't appeare properly.


as you see i wrote the the letters in the code in correct order but it shows up side down . then i wrote in revers order and it dose not show properly . what do you think cawabanga?

Unicode uses 16-bit characters and is not supported by the engine. char* and STRING* are 8-bit characters.

Thus you either need an Truetype font with 256 characters of Arabic letters, or alternatively can make a bitmap font with Arabic letters.

I don't know how to make characters using bitmap . I mean what is the size of each character that should be? and the order of them ? i mean 32 character * 3 rows or 4 rows .

actually , I made a bitamp but it did not work with me .

Manual -> FONT