Text rendering while downscaling

hcabral

Hi,

I've never had visual issues while scaling down textures, however for text I'm losing some quality. I'm using bmGlyph to create my bitmap fonts, and it seems to do the job - textures for retina and non-retina devices.

For example, I use the size 500 (yup, I do have some large text sometimes), and I when I set the SPTextField fontSize property to, say, 50, I do get pixelated results.

Am I missing something? I would like to avoid having more than 1 texture for text due to memory consumption.

Cheers!

Daniel

Bitmap fonts tend to get ugly when used in different sizes, unfortunately. There's no perfect solution, but you can try the following:

only use sizes that are multiples of the native size; e.g. try the size "text.fontSize = SP_NATIVE_FONT_SIZE * 0.5".
create the font texture without mipmapping, or with mipmapping. Sometimes, one or the other looks better.

If that doesn't help, the only alternative is to add the font to your project another time in the new size (be sure to use a different font "face" attribute in the textfield, though, so that the fonts don't overwrite each other).

hcabral

Daniel, hi, that's basically the path I followed. I ended having a second set of textures for smaller font sizes on the screen. It didn't blow up my memory, so it's OK for now.