Sprites in Text

[Jeod]

It is possible to use a sprite (small picture) in place of text in a string or a text blitter object? This is shown in Zelda: Link's Awakening and can be done in Game Maker. Is there a way to make it work in MMF2 without having to include it in the font?

If I need it in the font, does anyone know how to make/edit a font?

[DavidN]

The Text Blitter object takes text and translates it into a series of bitmaps taken from a sheet - you can replace any text character with a sprite instead (bitmap fonts like that are the way that the Zelda games displayed text, too). This journal post I made recently uses the object - everything you see on the status screen on the third screenshot is text in a Text Blitter, not just the actual text-looking... text.

There are a couple of example fonts for Text Blitter in here (I meant to expand it and sort of forgot about it):
http://www.clickteam.info/davidn/bitmapfonts.mfa

[Jeod]

Thanks, so I just use bitmaps? I have no idea how to set the text blitter object up, but I'll learn that later.