Bitmapped fonts are the fastest way to get good looking text in 3D applications.
There are many bitmap font generators around, but I wanted a few features that the others didn't provide. So I wrote my own.

Font Generator Screen Shot

Version 1.41 now available.

Implemented Features

  • DIB rendering of font gives best font output, regardless of users screen settings.
  • Global or per character position and width adjustment.
  • Texture Sizes from 16x16 up to 4096x4096.
  • Zoom up to 400% for accurate tweaking of character positions.
  • Anti-aliasing for nicer looking fonts, Cleartype option on XP machines.
  • Control of font width.
  • Font preview option.
  • TGA export option.
  • BMP output option.
  • Binary Font Data export.
  • Font info dump option.
  • User configurable colours and startup parameters

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    Installer Package
    		 Files only zip

     

    Projects using CBFG

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  • Spaced Out 3
  • vbGORE

    • ToDo List

  • State save option.
  • Merge/Extract font image.

    • Wish List

  • Export in other font generator formats.
  • Edit font image.
  • Unicode option.

    • Known Issues

  • Cleartype on XP overrides antialias settings.

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    Problems, ideas, bugs?
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