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Support multiple pages with text component

See original GitHub issue

Currently the text component supports only a single texture page. For chinese characters, even the most common ~1000 characters require 40 texture pages using an msdf bmfont generator.

Here is a zip with what should be the most common 1000 characters, in the Microsoft YaHei font:

yahei.zip

npm install -g msdf-bmfont-xml

# simple test
msdf-bmfont -f json yahei/yahei.ttf -i yahei/charset-test.txt --pot --square

# 1000 characters
msdf-bmfont -f json yahei/yahei.ttf -i yahei/charset-1000.txt --pot --square

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Created 6 years ago
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Comments:8 (8 by maintainers)

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donmccurdycommented, Feb 11, 2018

I’ve put together a little web tool for generating these MSDF fonts. It will support special characters correctly, and you can provide your own fonts if you wish.

http://msdf-bmfont.donmccurdy.com/

^note, this requires the negate: false setting on A-Frame’s text component, which is only available on the master branch and will be released with 0.8.0.

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donmccurdycommented, Jan 26, 2018

As long as I keep the charset small, this method does work:

screen shot 2018-01-25 at 7 46 54 pm

Should also point out that those 1000 characters are 2.4 MB in this format, so users may still need to generate these fonts specially for each scene unfortunately.