Compacting#

Compacting is the process of taking every "bitmap" character texture provided by a Minecraft font provider and storing it in as little space as possible. Generally, this means:

  1. Finding the largest effective dimensions out of all the characters,

  2. Expanding the dimensions of all other character textures to fit those new dimensions,

  3. Creating a new texture that will fit all characters in those dimensions,

  4. Sequencing them one-after-another while ignoring characters with a blank texture,

  5. Creating a new "chars" list that corresponds with the compacted texture.

mcfonts providers functions for compacting provider(s), glyphs, and images into a single, cohesive texture.

All use the same steps as given above.

Compacting Methods