Overview
bmGlyph (bitmap glyph) – Create nice bitmaps from your fonts. bmGlyph is a bitmap font generator which allow you to create nice rendered fonts and use it in your game or application. Stop wasting your time designing yourself your text or creating multilangages version of the same button: start using bmGlyph!
Special Effects
Cast Shadow, stroke with desired color/gradient and width, fill the glyph: color, glossy, gradient, or even import your own texture !
Customize
Import your own true type font, and work on selected glyphs allows you to change the color or texture of each glyph.
Publish
Publish for retina display with the AutoSD feature. See how it will render on iPad, or iPhone 4 / 3 with the preview mode. Export your PNG and FNT file. Compatible with Cocos2d, Corona, Sparrow and unity (ezgui plugin)
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Main Features
Select fonts from your system or import any true type font.- Cast Shadow
- Stroke with desired color/gradient and width
- Choose how to fill the glyph: color, glossy, gradient, or even import your own texture.
- Work on selected glyphs only allows you to change the color or texture of each glyph.
- Kernings support
- Preview mode: see how it render on an iPad, iPhone 4 or iPhone 3, or import your own background.
- Auto SD: generate automatically SD and HD textures.
- AutoSize: finds the best texture size automatically.
- Export the preview text as a PNG
- Bounding box adjustement (allows easier external editing)
- Complete predefined charset list for any language
Once published, the bitmap and font file coordinates can be used with the most famous game framework: cocos2d, corona, unity, etc…
The default atlas format is the one used by angel code BMFont.
Stop wasting your time designing yourself your text or creating multilangages version of the same button: start using bmGlyph !
This app is fantastic! This was the missing piece to getting started with Starling and now I have all the tools I need. I also know it’s good because I was able to create a great looking font in 15 minutes … and I am a developer with no design abilities
Thank you!
How do I use this to work on a font in Photoshop and then send it out to .fnt for one of these engines? I’m a designer…
and to Jack above, if you’re a developer with no design abilities, how do you know it looks great?
I kid. I kid. Of course you do. Or maybe your’e being subjective… I kid.
You need first to create a basic project in bmGlyph, with no effect if you want to customize it yourself in photoshop.
Choose the desired font size and a plain color only, increase the bounding box (if you add shadows etc…), and publish it.
you will have your .fnt and you can do your job in photoshop …
Hello~!
I want to know if this software supports Chinese fonts?
Hi, it is supposed to. You can download and play with the demo version to see the result
Hello,
tools like BMFont let me create bitmap fonts in Bold or Italics even if the font itself comes in Regular only, while bmGlyph doesn’t seem to support this. Any chance this might be added in the future?
i guess it depends on the font you use. currently the selector needs more work to display only the available options for each font. try with Arial and italic , it should work.
bmglyph will now display the full list available for each font, for the v1.6 (just submitted for review)
Hello, I am vishwas , I want to know more about Bitmap font generator,and how to get .sfp files
hi, i don t know what is .sfp file… please tell me more about it. what is it for, how to use it. thanks