[`rTexPacker`] Question (for version 5.5.0.0) : Is it possible to render the glyphs without any smoothing?

[timosperisen]

Hi,

I'm trying to create a bitmap atlas for a pixel font LanaPixel, nominal size 11px (e.g. https://github.com/ericoporto/pixel-utf8-fonts/tree/main/lanapixel )
I'm using the following settings:

• Algorithm: Basic
• Padding: 0
• spacing: 0
• Tex. Size: 1024
• Repack Atlas on change (ON)
• Font: LanaPixel
• Font size: 11
• Force height to font size (OFF)
• Force monospace font width (OFF)
• Generate SDF font (OFF)
• a custom charset ( from a text file) :
  characters.txt

Modifying the atlas filter pressing 1 doesn't really help (and it seems not to affect rendering the file at all?).

That's how the atlas looks with the size 11 of the font:

Is there a way to get a sharper, not antialiased/smoothed result with a certain option?
If not is that planned in the future?
I guess for pixel fonts it would be very useful to get the sharp edges.

Thanks.

[raysan5]

@timosperisen It could be tricky, fonts come as vectorial data that is rasterized at a desired size, if the font is a pixel-font, then there is high-chance that selecting the base generation size, it renders antialiased (like the fonts used in the UI styles) but otherwise it will always be partially blurry. If I added an option to force black&white pixels, it will generate artifacts on the font and it would also require some threshoold control...