AngelCode Fonts - First Steps

I spent a little bit of time the past couple of evenings writing a parser in Scala to process AngelCode font files so sgine could support bitmap fonts and though the actual results look a bit sad, the progress is quite nice. :)

Now, I know this looks ugly, but for a combined time of less than two hours I think it's some decent progress:



You'll notice the x and y offsets are not specified, and I sort of hard-coded multi-character rendering, but still, it's a start. :)

Here's the code required:

package org.sgine.render

import org.sgine.math.mutable.Matrix4

import javax.imageio._

import org.lwjgl.opengl.GL11._

import scala.io.Source

object TestFonts {
 def main(args: Array[String]): Unit = {
  val r = Renderer.createFrame(1024, 768, "Test Fonts")
  
  val m = Matrix4().translate(z = -1000.0)
  val fps = FPS(1.0)
  
  val font = AngelCodeFont(Source.fromURL(getClass.getClassLoader.getResource("resource/Arial.fnt")), getClass.getClassLoader.getResource("resource/Arial.png"))
  
  val a = new Array[() => Unit](13)
  a(0) = MatrixState(m)
  a(1) = () => font('H').draw(-60.0)
  a(2) = () => font('e').draw(-40.0)
  a(3) = () => font('l').draw(-20.0)
  a(4) = () => font('l').draw(0.0)
  a(5) = () => font('o').draw(20.0)
  a(6) = () => font(' ').draw(40.0)
  a(7) = () => font('W').draw(60.0)
  a(8) = () => font('o').draw(80.0)
  a(9) = () => font('r').draw(100.0)
  a(10) = () => font('l').draw(120.0)
  a(11) = () => font('d').draw(140.0)
  a(12) = fps
  r.renderable := RenderList(a)
  
  println("Renderer started! " + 81.asInstanceOf[Char] + " - " + font.face + ", " + font.size)
 }
}

Next step is to properly support drawing of Strings correctly. More to come soon.