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2D Toolkit => Support => Topic started by: DannyB on September 10, 2012, 11:44:25 am

Title: Unikron for President (and font outline question)
Post by: DannyB on September 10, 2012, 11:44:25 am

Dude,

I just started playing with the font capabilities of TK2D and they are legendary!
I love the ease of use and the awesome gradients feature, and the nice handling of kerning and everything.

Really well done!

In the Font Tutorial (http://www.unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/doc/tutorial/Using_gradients_and_inline_style_changes.html) the screenshots show the text mesh with what seems to be a nice black outline.

Is there a way for me to achieve such effect? I could not find any setting for it so far. Am I misinterpreting the screenshots?

Thanks.

Title: Re: Unikron for President (and font outline question)
Post by: unikronsoftware on September 11, 2012, 11:30:48 am

The outline is created in the font itself. In BMFont, you have an option to create an outline.
If you wanna do this, use the settings shown in this tutorial -
http://unikronsoftware.com/2dtoolkit/doc/tutorial/Preparing_a_font.html

Title: Re: Unikron for President (and font outline question)
Post by: DannyB on September 11, 2012, 11:33:20 am

I think I did follow it to the letter.
I probably missed some BMfont setting, will look again.

Thanks.

Title: Re: Unikron for President (and font outline question)
Post by: unikronsoftware on September 11, 2012, 11:35:24 am

BMFont - Export options: 32 bit,
Channels A - outline,
RGB -  glyph

In font settings, set Outline thickness to whatever you need there.

Title: Re: Unikron for President (and font outline question)
Post by: DannyB on September 11, 2012, 01:09:44 pm

Thanks, I used RGB one or something, as per the tutorial.

Will play with it more. I love the font settings you have created.