/**
* Convenience method for generating a font, and then writing the fnt and png files. Writing a
* generated font to files allows the possibility of only generating the fonts when they are
* missing, otherwise loading from a previously generated file.
*
* @param fontFile
* @param fontSize
*/
private AnimvsBitmapFont generateFontWriteFiles(
String fontName,
FileHandle fontFile,
int fontSize,
int pageWidth,
int pageHeight,
String characters) {
FreeTypeFontGenerator generator = new FreeTypeFontGenerator(fontFile);
PixmapPacker packer = new PixmapPacker(pageWidth, pageHeight, Pixmap.Format.RGBA8888, 1, false);
FreeTypeFontParameter fontParameters = new FreeTypeFontParameter();
fontParameters.characters = characters;
fontParameters.size = fontSize;
fontParameters.minFilter = TextureFilter.Nearest;
fontParameters.magFilter = TextureFilter.Linear;
fontParameters.packer = packer;
// FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeBitmapFontData fontData =
// generator.generateData(fontSize, characters, false, packer);
FreeTypeFontGenerator.FreeTypeBitmapFontData fontData = generator.generateData(fontParameters);
Array<PixmapPacker.Page> pages = packer.getPages();
Array<TextureRegion> texRegions = new Array<TextureRegion>(pages.size);
for (int i = 0; i < pages.size; i++) {
PixmapPacker.Page p = pages.get(i);
Texture tex =
new Texture(
new PixmapTextureData(p.getPixmap(), p.getPixmap().getFormat(), false, false, true)) {
@Override
public void dispose() {
super.dispose();
getTextureData().consumePixmap().dispose();
}
};
tex.setFilter(Texture.TextureFilter.Nearest, Texture.TextureFilter.Nearest);
texRegions.add(new TextureRegion(tex));
}
AnimvsBitmapFont font = new AnimvsBitmapFont(fontData, texRegions, true);
setDefaultFilter(font);
saveFontToFile(font, fontSize, fontName, packer);
generator.dispose();
packer.dispose();
return font;
}
