Hi, been a while folks.
So, I would like to get some cool fonts, the inbuilt one is tiny and not much fun.

Is there a way to download some .pcx fonts?

I don't know how to make one

Thanks for help.

Thanks a lot man.
I will try it now!

Thanks Audric, I will try them out as well, and see which works best.

EDIT:
the converter works well, but the Bitmap font looks attractive to the eye.

How does one cut and paste it to allegro font?
Many thanks!

Hi Matthew, thanks for replying.
I don't quite get what you mean. load_font() loads .pcx file not .bmp?

I tried it anyways and it didn't work. Can you explain what you mean a bit clearer? Thanks

Then I don't understand why I am getting a seg fault.

    FONT* f= load_font("furyfurries.bmp", NULL,NULL) ;

is what I have down. But it doesn't work.

oh right. I will read about the load_bitmap_font() function thanks.

the link Audric posted before has some of those bitmap files, so will try it out.

Thank you

EDIT:
yeah it works, perfectly with your bitmap file. But when i use the one at this link,
http://www.algonet.se/~guld1/fonts/002.gif
converted to bmp it crashes

I tried making one in photoshop, it didn't work. Do I have to have all the letters in it? It is time consuming.

I can't get the bitmap generator to have orange background and letters on pink background.

Anything I can try? Thanks

96 characters!?? wow . OK I'll give it another go. Thanks

Two side notes:

• Fonts are subject to copyright, so if you run TTF2PCX over a font from your Windows install, and distribute it with your game, you may be violating that font's copyright. Best use a font you know to be free.

• If you use Allegro 5 with the TTF add-on enabled, you can save yourself the hassle and load TTF fonts (and a truckload of other formats) directly.

You're probably not seeing anything because you don't have the letters in the correct order. Take another look at the bitmap font I showed you earlier. load_bitmap_font reads from left to right, top to bottom. You have capital A starting in the second position when it should start in the 34th position. Also, you might want to make your magic pink rectangles slightly taller so that no letters fall off the edge. If they even load that way, they will likely be cut off so you only have a partial letter when you print it on the screen. Also, the top of each row has to have the same y value, as well as the bottom of each row. And the height of each row has to be the same.

If you wait a little bit, I'll whip up a font template maker.

Here it is :
FontMaker.zip : source code and win32 static exe (uses Allegro 4)

From the command line, type FontMaker.exe --help or just FontMaker.exe to see the usage information. FontMaker will create a new font template with or without text, with characters any size 4x4 or greater and as .bmp, .pcx, or .tga files.

Good luck. Let us know how it goes.

Not at this time, no. I suppose I could add an option to load a bitmap font from a file and use that as the font, but it would only be good for resizing a font, although that might be handy. You could do the same thing within your program though, by calling CreateFontBitmap and specifying a different font, and then saving the resulting bitmap.

Look at the source code that came with FontMaker, CreateFontBitmap is a function I wrote. Feel free to copy it out and use it in your projects. MIT license, if any.