tatman blue
Im a new to XNA so please be patient with me.
I'm feeling really frustrated trying to get my own fonts to draw on the screen. Ive found classes that will take their example image and draw with those fonts. But I dont want those fonts. I want mine. I know that I have to have an image with my letters of my font on it. And that image has to get parsed. Im trying to avoid having to create my own classes and tools to do this.
So I downloaded the Bitmap font generater from Angle code. The classes I've found, both here in these forums and at angle code, that suppose to work with this Angel code tool do not correctly parse the .fnt. At first I was getting exceptions. So I debugged through it and got passed that. But its not drawing a damn thing on the screen.
So I found some other class that wants the .fnt file in XML format. Ok. Angle code tool generates XML .fnt files but the XML is not the same that this class wants.
So quite frankly I am very frustated. Is there a tool and classes out there that work that I dont have to spend time debugging, refactoring, or what not! this seems insane that I cannot find something as common as this to use.....
any help would be so very much appreciated...
thnx
Matt