trve_bevy_font

An opinionated Bevy plugin to load Font Assets quickly and easily. Ideal for Game Jams.

How to use

This plugin is meant to be a convenience tool to load all font assets for your game at startup, ideal for small projects and prototypes.

To use it, add it to your Cargo.toml file like this:

trve_bevy_font = { git = "https://github.com/mnmaita/trve_bevy_font" }

Remember you can also target tags, commits and branches with this method:

trve_bevy_font = { git = "https://github.com/mnmaita/trve_bevy_font", tag = "v0.4.0" }

trve_bevy_font = { git = "https://github.com/mnmaita/trve_bevy_font", branch = "test" }

trve_bevy_font = { git = "https://github.com/mnmaita/trve_bevy_font", rev = "some-sha" }

Default usage and overriding default behavior

By default, it will load all assets from a "fonts" directory under your "assets" folder. You can override this directory by using the FontAssetFolder Resource:

let mut app = App::new();

// Your plugins go here.
app.add_plugins(TrveFontPlugin);

// You insert this Resource and use the `new` function
// which accepts any parameter that can be turned into an `AssetPath`.
app.insert_resource(FontAssetFolder::new("ttfs"));

This will load all assets from assets/ttfs by using AssetServer's load_folder method.

Loading a list of assets

Certain platforms, like web, can't use load_folder to load assets so this library provides an override via the FontAssetList Resource.

This allows you to load a list of assets from the folder specified in the FontAssetFolder Resource, within the assets directory.

    // This will attempt to load `assets/fonts/bold.ttf`, `assets/fonts/italic.ttf` and `assets/fonts/thin.ttf`.
    app.insert_resource(FontAssetList::new(
        [
            "bold.ttf",
            "italic.ttf",
            "thin.ttf",
        ]
        .into(),
    ));

    // This will attempt to load `assets/ttfs/bold.ttf`, `assets/ttfs/italic.ttf` and `assets/ttfs/thin.ttf`.
    app.insert_resource(FontAssetFolder::new("ttfs"));
    app.insert_resource(FontAssetList::new(
        [
            "bold.ttf",
            "italic.ttf",
            "thin.ttf",
        ]
        .into(),
    ));

If you insert this Resource the plugin will only load the assets provided in the list.

Bevy version compatibility

trve_bevy_font	bevy
0.3 0.4	0.14
0.2	0.13
0.1	0.12