How To Import Fonts In Scripts?

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ZoeyZanidoo

I want to use DrawString but need a font for it, how would I load that in the script? I am using c# but I can use an example in gdscript too.

EDIT: solved it myself, where's all the documentation?

Calinou

EDIT: solved it myself, where's all the documentation?

You could write a comment here to explain how you solved it :)

You could also go further and contribute to the class reference to add an example code snippet. (Note that only GDScript examples can be added to the class reference for now.)

ZoeyZanidoo

I doubt what I did was correct, since there were more issues once I had gotten the string to draw, which I did by grabbing the font of the controls theme's default font instead of trying to import it. But the string was turning to a smear of broken lines I guess because drawing text on already drawn rectangles is bad?

I thought it was the order it was all being drawn as any text drawn off the rectangles was fine, but reordering didn't help.

I instead made a scene with a label, instantiated for each rectangle i was drawing to show the info on them I needed. But the smearing was there even with the label text. So then I edited the labels themes font to show a strong outline and shadow, reduced its size and made the actual text color the color of the rectangles(so I didn't have to look at the weird smearing) and all that showed up was the shadow and outline. That actually worked good enough for the A* debugging I was trying to do, but it was still ugly.