Determining Spritefont Character Width

Is there a way if you create a spritefont manually (not from a normal font, so I can't use blackhornet sprite font generator) to determine the character width for each character? I have no experience figuring this out, and I'd love to not have to type the entire alphabet into a text box and manually try every single potential option.

Any insight on this?

Thanks in advance.

There's no way around it, either you'll have to do it manually (by measuring the width of each character and using it in the code) or you could write a program yourself that measures the width of every character in a spritesheet I think?

Using blackhornet's program is the best way to go since it does all of this automatically though.

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So just so I'm clear, are you subtracting the pixels from the edge of the letter to the cell box? How would I use blackhornet's program with an already created spritesheet?

There's no way to use his program with a .png spritesheet of a font I believe.

If you want to use it, you'll have to download a font, open the font in it and then export it.

When setting the character width you're just saying that your character has said width.

In this case, for the letter A I should put an event saying:

"On start of level -> spritefont -> set character width "A" to 5"

So it will only grab the space where the letter is and leave the empty block on the right side alone.

If you have a spritesheet of a font and every character has nearly the same width you can also set every character to the same width.

andreyin - ahh that makes sense. I'll give it a shot - thanks!