A Swift 3 implementation of BMGlyphLabel and BMGlyphFont that makes it easy to add bmGlyph bitmap fonts to your SpriteKit games.
This code is based on BMGlphyLabelSwift by Stéphane Queraud but has been updated to Swift 3 and some new functionality has been added.
Include the two files in BMGlyphLabel folder in your project:
BMGlyphFont.swift
BMGlyphLabel.swift
You will then be able to create a font like so:
// Create a BMGlyphFont - will load textures from Font texture atlas and font data from Font.xml
let font = BMGlyphFont(fontName: "Font")
// Create a label with the text "Hello World!" using the font created in previous step
let label = BMGlyphLabel(text: "Hello World!", font: font)
// BMGlyphLabel is a SKNode, so you need to add it to the scene
addChild(label)
Loading a BMGlyphFont is relatively expensive so make sure you load the font and cache it.
Since BMGlyphLabel is a subclass of SKNode, you will be able to scale, rotate, translate etc the label as you would any other SKNode.
To change the text in a BMGlyphLabel is as simple as:
// Change text to "Hello there, stranger!"
label.text = "Hello there, stranger!"
To create a multi-line label, insert "\n" into the string:
// A multi-line label:
label.text = "First line\nSecond line"
BMGlyphLabel will allow you to change horizontal and vertical alignment and justification of text:
// Set horizontal and vertical alignment and justification in label:
label.horizontalAlignment = .Right
label.verticalAlignment = .Bottom
label.justify = .Center
You can also change how the label is rendered:
// Change how the label is rendered:
label.color = SKColor.red
label.colorBlendFactor = 0.5
label.filteringMode = .nearest // This will render pixel fonts crisply
BMGlyphLabel was created with heavy inspiration from BMGlphyLabelSwift by Stéphane Queraud. I did not fork it because I wanted to optimize it as much as possible to Swift 3 and add new functionality I needed for my own games.
BMGlyph can be downloaded from the official BMGlyph website.
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Copyright (c) 2016 Kim Pedersen
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