Font scale

[i245]

Hi,
How to change font size? I was looking for it, but i don't found anything.

[randomMesh]

You can't change the size of a font. Instead you need to create a new font with the font tool and load that.

[ACE247]

Thanks for the Hint, gonna create something to do this, so that you could simply load a large font and then scale it smaller as you need.

[i245]

Thanks for the Hint, gonna create something to do this, so that you could simply load a large font and then scale it smaller as you need.

OK, I am waiting for it.

[bitplane]

Most of the time this isn't what you want. If you really need dynamically scaling fonts you should use one of the various Opentype font plugins, or create some OS-specific IGUIFont implementation.

The reason why are:

If you scale down a bitmap font without mipmaps, you'll get missing pixels, it will look corrupted and chunky. If you scale up a bitmap font without texture filtering then it will be pixellated.

If you scale down a bitmap font and it has mipmaps, the letters will bleed into each other. The same thing will happen if you scale one up and use texture filtering to smooth it, unless you hack the font creator to have huge borders around the letters.

[ACE247]

Ok I've given up on doing this, Bitplane is right.
Things start looking weird when scaling.
PS: even the big game's like Call of Duty MW and Crysis, dont use font scaling. They actually have different size fonts in their game files!

[i245]

Thanks all. I will create new fonts.