PIXI V3 Bitmapfont problem!

[jaevelgames]

I'm in the process of turning my current project into V3, when I get this error regarding my bitmap text: "Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read property 'size' of undefined". 

 

The error occurs in BitmapText.js, and more specifically here: " var scale = this._font.size / data.size;".

 

I'm declaring the font size in a variable like this: "textStyle = {font: '12px Minecraftia', align: 'center'}", which worked well in V2.

 

Since I'm a noob, and cant find any help from examples or such, I'm thankful for any help here

 

Have a great day!

[xerver]

Can you post a running example? I have no idea what is wrong without that

 

Thanks!

[jaevelgames]

Er, well i would, but I accidentally spilled a glass of water over my laptop this weekend, which killed it. So I guess this post is dead until i manage a recovery

 

Sorry about that..

[jcdiprose]

I'm having the exact same issue.

 

I have fnt & tga files and am loading the files with the asset loader

//removed other assets for simplicitythis.allAssets = ['fonts/indieflower.fnt', 'fonts/itckabel.fnt', 'fonts/indieflower.tga', 'fonts/itckabel.tga'];

I am trying to create the text with this code ..

this.finalScore = new PIXI.extras.BitmapText("testing", {font: 'bold itcKabel', align: 'center', fill: '#aa2821'});

and am getting the same error as jaevelgames.

 

I'd really appreciate some assistance, cheers xerver! 

 

Nearly finished my first canvas, javascript app/game. Looking forward to sharing.

[xerver]

Same question to you as I did to him:

> Can you post a running example? I have no idea what is wrong without that

[jcdiprose]

http://www.feref.com/jonTest/dumb_remake/

 

Thanks, and this is not a commercial project. I am using assets from my company to rebuild it for my own educational use! The film has already been released

 

Cheers!

 

Jon

[xerver]

Oh this already has a workaround, and a fix for the next release of pixi:

https://github.com/GoodBoyDigital/pixi.js/issues/1708

**EDIT**: Looks like you are using 3.0.2 and this still doesn't work...hmm.. looking into some more.

TGA isn't getting recognized as an image which could be contributing to this, I patched resource-loader to add support in v1.5.4 so you could do a custom build with that version (or wait for the next pixi release). Not 100% sure that is the cause of your issue yet though. Still investigating.

**EDIT 2**: Ok, found the core of your issue here. .fnt files are expected to be an XML font. The files you are loading, I have no idea what those are but its definitely not the XML font format we expect

http://www.feref.com/jonTest/dumb_remake/fonts/indieFlower.fnt

[jcdiprose]

Ahh, okay, I used the bitmap font generator you advised in the documentation.

 

*EDIT*

 

In BM Font under export options, the font descriptor was set as text I have changed this to XML and loaded the png's and xml files and now is 

 

Thanks

Jon