Enable normal fonts?

[amundo]

Would it be possible to enable non-bitmap fonts in text?

I know it’s possible for canvas, but I haven’t looked into your implementation:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Canvas_API/Tutorial/Drawing_text

I have always wanted to try making a game where the "sprites" are emoji!

[slmjkdbtl]

Kaboom rendering is based on WebGL, using truetype / opentype fonts in WebGL requires bit of a hustle and probably need external dependencies to parse them. I also would really like to have them but unfortunately it's not the biggest priority at the moment, will definitely support in the future.

[amundo]

Okay, retro is cool too ;)

[slmjkdbtl]

Thanks for understanding!

[slmjkdbtl]

(note to myself) Did a bit of research and this might be an easier implementation that can be done in near future:

1. use FontFace API to load the font
2. draw the font on a global offscreen <canvas> with 2d ctx
3. use that offscreen 2d canvas as a WebGL texture and draw it
4. clear offscreen canvas, redraw, and update texture (stored on each text() comp) on text change

[slmjkdbtl]

It's implemented on master and kaboom@next, see new examples/text.ts