where to put fonts

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-05 19:24:00
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
So, lately I have been working on a project and when I run it, I get the error that it can't find the font. I am using:
g.setFont(Resources.fonts().get("./joystix_monospace.ttf",16f*Main.scale)); in the render method of my screen.
The error message makes it seem like it's looking for the font in the directory I am running the application from.
Where should I put the font and/or what do I need to add to the build.gradle file to make this work?

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-06 07:50:26
User: nightm4re [Admin 👑, Mod 🔧] (age: 1567 days 🔥; posts: 185)}
You need to store your fonts in a source directory of your project.
Either you define source directories manually, e.g. using eclipse, or you define ~~~~SourceSets in your ~~~~build.gradle like that:

sourceSets {
 main.java.srcDir "src"
 main.java.srcDir "sprites"
 main.java.srcDir "sounds"
 main.java.srcDir "fonts"
 main.java.srcDir "maps"
 main.java.srcDir "localization"
 
 main.resources.includes = ["game.litidata"]
}

I recommend not retrieving the font on every render call. Apart from that , you should ditch the "./" in front of the font name. It makes sense to load all Font Resources in one place, e.g. in a class with static Constants, something like the following:

public class FancyFonts {
 public static final Font NUMBER_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("04b_11_.ttf").deriveFont(16f);
 public static final Font JOURNAL_TITLE_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("superscr.ttf").deriveFont(32f);
 public static final Font JOURNAL_TEXT_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("pixel-love.ttf").deriveFont(32f);
 public static final Font UNI_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("unifont.ttf").deriveFont(32f);
 public static final Font GUI_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("fsex300.ttf").deriveFont(32f);
 public static final Font GUI_FONT_MID = GUI_FONT.deriveFont(24f);
 public static final Font GUI_FONT_SMALL = GUI_FONT.deriveFont(16f);
 public static final Font SPEECH_BUBBLE_FONT = GUI_FONT.deriveFont(4f);
 public static final Font FLOATING_COMBAT_NUMBERS_FONT = GUI_FONT.deriveFont(4f);
 public static final Font ICON_FONT = Resources.fonts().get("iconfont.ttf").deriveFont(48f);
 private FancyFonts() {
 }
 public static final FontIcon ICON_FEMALE = new FontIcon(ICON_FONT, "\uE800");
 public static final FontIcon ICON_MALE = new FontIcon(ICON_FONT, "\uE801");
}

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-06 19:31:04
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Ok that makes sense. Thanks so much for helping me out!

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-07 21:09:36
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Sorry for the late reply but after attempting this it proceeds to fail. I have attached my project if it helps.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-07 21:13:14
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Sorry for the late reply, but I tried doing as you said and I am still getting the same error message:
SEVERE: font file:/C:/Users/smcbot/Documents/BLT/build/libs/joystix_monospace.ttf could not be loaded (that's the directory I am running the jar file from)

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-10 14:14:07
User: Scruffy [] (age: 934 days 🙌; posts: 7)}
smcbot is the font being copied into the output location when it's built? I've had issues like that with Java in the past, can't remember how to fix it.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-16 15:23:45
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
The font is not being copied should it be? That would explain a lot.
Thanks so much.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-16 15:24:26
User: smcbot [] (age: 947 days 🙌; posts: 12)}
Scruffy The font is not being copied should it be? That would explain a lot.
Thanks so much.

[nightm4re94]

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Posted: 2020-04-16 22:21:10
User: Scruffy [] (age: 934 days 🙌; posts: 7)}
smcbot try manually copying the font into the project folder or /bin/ to see if that is the problem. I created an issue on github about it not being able to find the game.dataliti file because it wasnt in the root folder (it was in subfolders).