Creating Your Own Fonts From TTF Files

OK, first you gotta run it through C:\Program Files\Microsoft Xbox SDK\Tools\Win32\Graphics\FontMaker, (choose size) where you will end up with 2 files...

1. tga-file, which contains a raw graphics of the fonts
2. abc-file, contains coordinates to each letter in the tga-file.

now, put these two files in your projects folder\Media\Fonts\ dir, and create a font.rdf file in your project.

( I made a dodger-font in this example )

// setting up the font files. out_header Font.h out_packedresource Media\Font.xpr out_error Font.err Texture Font { Source Media\Fonts\Dodger_18.tga Format D3DFMT_A4R4G4B4 Levels 1 } UserData FontData { DataFile Media\Fonts\Dodger_18.abc }

Now, it should look something like this in your project list :

Right click on font.rdf and make it like this :

Now you can use the "xfont" -system from microsoft.

#include "XBFont.h" CXBFont cFont; void main(void) { cFont.Create(Info.g_pd3dDevice,"Font.xpr"); }