Drawing perfect text?

[mobiusman]

I'm working on a text-based game but I noticed GMS is pretty bad with text? Some letters appear janky and faded, not what I was hoping for..

 

[FoxyOfJungle]

Yes, fonts are Bitmap-converted, so there's no lossless scaling, unfortunately. However, you can try to use large fonts and make them smaller, then use some filter (like FXAA, or even linear interpolation even) so that the font doesn't have too many visual artifacts.
Anyway, you can still set font anti-aliasing in the IDE.

 

[mobiusman]

In that case I may just use python for text stuff, ty anyway

 

[Nocturne]

For great text in GM you can use distance field fonts! You can find a few assets for this from the links below:

basic implementation: https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/distance-field-fonts.68481/
advanced implementation: https://github.com/JujuAdams/Scribble

 

[mobiusman]

This is more than I'm used to but its working tyvm