fontpath npm install

[nrei0]

Hey Matt!

There is a problem when installing fontpath via npm. I use command: sudo npm install fontpath but then i get an error: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxbsmpZqdGZdmprYVcwMUphS2s/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxbsmpZqdGZelg4SUtmNkpkbTg/view?usp=sharing

My main goal is to make 3d webtext via threejs with kerning by converting ttf to js format.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks, Andy.

My system: OSX 10.10

[mattdesl]

Hey Andy, you might need to downgrade your version of Node to get it working. Can you run node -v and let me know the output?

My suggestion for 3D text in WebGL is to use bitmaps glyphs with distance fields. This leads to nice crisp edges at any size, lower filesize than vector JSON, and it tends to look pretty good at small sizes.

This module is using some of my latest utils for word wrapping and glyph layout:
https://github.com/Jam3/three-bmfont-text/

There is some docs there for turning TTF into BMFont files.

Matt

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On Apr 11, 2015, at 2:37 AM, Andy Tyurin notifications@github.com wrote:

Hey Matt!

There is a problem when installing fontpath via npm. I use command: sudo npm install fontpath but then i get an error: https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxbsmpZqdGZdmprYVcwMUphS2s/view?usp=sharing https://drive.google.com/file/d/0BzxbsmpZqdGZelg4SUtmNkpkbTg/view?usp=sharing

My main goal is to make 3d webtext via threejs with kerning by converting ttf to js format.

Do you have any suggestions?

Thanks, Andy.

My system: OSX 10.10

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[nrei0]

v0.12.2. Nice work! I have read the description of your utils / modules, but couldn't find anything about converting ttf to bmfont. If not hard, please, give me a link to stuff.

Regards, Andy

[mattdesl]

Sure, there's some tools discussed here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Hiero

LibGDX's Hiero includes a SDF filter. There are steps on generating SDF fonts here: https://github.com/libgdx/libgdx/wiki/Distance-field-fonts

Unfortunately it uses Java to run. You might also be able to convert to BMFont with another tool (like Littera) and then apply the SDF after the fact. This could cause some bleeding between glyphs, so make sure to use a large padding.

Eventually I'd love to see more tools in JavaScript/Node so people don't need to download JREs and GUI tools just to convert ttf to BMFont. :smile: Let me know if you hit any other snags.

[butcher202]

Hi,

Which version of NodeJs works well?

[duhaime]

For others who end up here, Node version 0.10.48 gets this engine started