The state of Bitmap fonts [FIXED]

The last row of letters doesn't cause either of these issues. See the attached game. The font in it includes only four glyphs - A-D. None of them is outside the bitmap.

Bitmap fonts are just broken.

Are there small artifacts around your text?

I noticed it's caused by the camera being at a coordinate with a float value, like 320.123 instead of just 320. There's an option to snap to pixels in the settings somewhere. It fixed it for me.

I found this out when I made a procedural scroll bar like the one on your browser. At decimal values, the text in my options menu had artifacts, and at the whole number values the text did not.

The problem is that the bitmap fonts don't draw at all. Regular fonts have artifacts around them that come from nearby letters, and this happens in a scene that doesn't move the camera at all.

Importing your game makes Stencyl angry. So I tried to import your font and set it up myself. It works fine for me. Here is the result:

How did you set it up?

the usual. import the image, setup the characters, use with draw text block.

Can you post your game here?

Also, which version of stencyl are you using?

I'm using the latest public release. And I'm sorry, I just left for the weekend. won't be able to access my laptop until tomorrow, so I can't send you the file.

oh, but I remember something. I  noticed that your 256*256 font image was saved as 4x graphic. did you import it at 4x on purpose? i would think you won't be able to work with it on the editor, since at 1x it would be 64*64, which means each letter would be only 6 pixel wide. maybe that's the cause?

I imported it at 1x, and the bitmap isn't 256x256. Not sure what you're seeing there.

The exception quoted by letmethink and the scaling should be fixed now in the latest private build.

(And a note for other readers is that the original issue was fixed and confirmed a few days back.)