Complete Noob - Drawing text in layers

[RogerH]

Hi all,

having more success now - I've come across a problem with fonts though.

I'm trying to use a mono font so that all mycharacters are the same width.

I've tried:

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Font = love.graphics.newFont("C:/Windows/Fonts/Deja Vu Sans Mono/Deja Vu Sans Mono.ttf", 48)

and:

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Font = love.graphics.newFont("C:/Windows/Fonts/Deja Vu Sans Mono.ttf", 48)

But I'm getting a 'does not exist' message.

I've looked for any tutorials on this but they seem to assume I'd know how to do this bit, lol!

What am I doing wrong?

Thanks as always for your help.

Roger.

[Sir_Silver]

You need to store the font(s) that you want to use somewhere inside of your game's folder (where you have your main.lua). If you store the font in the same folder as your main.lua you can load it like:

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Font = love.graphics.newFont("Deja Vu Sans Mono.ttf", 48)

You want to store your fonts packaged with your game because people that don't have this font will end up with a game that crashes.

[zorg]

To expand on the above, you're attempting to use absolute paths where only relative ones are accepted.
Relative to both your save directory, and where your main.lua is (in a folder OR in a .love file, which is just a zip archive).

[RogerH]

Hi all,

Having some success now thanks to your help.

However, I'm trying to specify a monospaced font and can't get it to work.

I have tried:

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Font = love.graphics.newFont("C:/Windows/Fonts/Deja Vu Sans Mono.ttf", 48)

and:

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Font = love.graphics.newFont("C:/Windows/Fonts/Deja Vu Sans Mono/Deja Vu Sans Mono.ttf", 48)

but I'm getting a 'file does not exist' error.

I've had a look for font tutorials but they seem to assume I'll get this part right, lol!

What am I doing wrong in specifying the font?

many thanks in advance,

Roger.

[bartbes]

Please don't triple post. And you've just asked the exact same question twice, ignoring the answers you got.

[RogerH]

yes - and I apologised in my last post for the duplicate - as I said I'm a noob and i will make mistakes. If it helps, I apologise again for the dup[licate post.

[bartbes]

yes - and I apologised in my last post for the duplicate - as I said I'm a noob and i will make mistakes. If it helps, I apologise again for the dup[licate post.

And then you triple post AGAIN.

[RogerH]

OMG! I have no idea how I'm doing that! So sorry!

Seriously, someone tell me how I keep doing that? I'm really not trying to annoy you - honest.

[RogerH]

Ok so I figured out how to delete the double/triple posts - now all I have to do is figure out how I managed to do it in the first place.

Really sorry everyone - I'm new to this lark and didn't realise I was doing it.

[grump]

lol, this is hilarious