Leadwerks tutorial - Font studio

[AggrorJorn]

This video tutorial explains how to make your own font styles for the Leadwerks engine and how to load new fonts in to your program.

 

[Pancakes]

epic winQ!

[Rekindled Phoenix]

that is awesome! Thanks aggror

[Richard Simpson]

This is a cool tutorial. I always wondered how the font style would be changed. Thanks.

[gamecreator]

Well done. Easy to follow. My only question is: why was the FPS font replaced as well? I wouldn't have expected that to happen.

[AggrorJorn]

By default framework uses the command SetStats with a parameter of 1 (show fps). If you use setfont before the main loop then every text is going to have that font.

Haven't tested this but it might work:

 

main loop

fw:Update()
fw:Render()

SetBlend(1)

RemoveFont(myfont)
SetStats(1)
SetFont(myfont)
Drawtext ('lalalala')

SetBlend(1)

 

Althought this looks not all that good since you call setstats every single loop. I don't think it will impact performance but it can bother you with it presence in the main loop.

[Flexman]

The FPS font will use whatever the last font selected was.

 

If you want the default font back see this thread...Default Font

[Masterxilo]

You don't have to create a new font if you just want to use another color. You should always leave the color to white.