Hi JCL,

I couldn't find much about it so I am asking it here. I have a problem with font_create. When I use other fonts (e.g. FONT* calibri18_font = "Calibri#18"; ) it works correctly, but when I use my custom font:


the text becomes invisible. I have made the .bmp with FontGenerator (by Harry Potter from this forum) and the .bmp itself looks fine (it is just a green calibri 12 for testing purposes, nothing special). I have also tried other custom fonts but that did not work too.

Is my code wrong?
Thanks for taking the time.

ps: I have windows 10 (probably doesn't matter)

Maybe the vertical or horizontal bitmap size is wrong in some way? Or your BMP is in fact invisible by 100% transparency? There are some example font bitmaps included, so you can check your code with them and identify the problem.

Thanks for your quick reply. The samples also don't work. I have also tried for several texts. My suspicion is that there is something wrong with font_create.

Doing this also does not work (font1_red.pcx is in the game folder):



but the following does work:

Then I don't know where the problem lies, but look into font_create() examples - the digital clock sample uses it if I remember right. Compare it with your code and check what's different. font_create() supports both TTF and bitmap fonts, so you can theoretically just swap one for the other.

I have found what the problem was, I thought FONT* font_customcalibri = font_create("my_font.bmp"); needed to be declared globally (outside a function), but it needs to be declared within a function (just in the Digital.c sample). Thanks for that digital sample tip.