complicated characters render with deficient because of insufficient resolution

[farteryhr]

for example, 鬱矗爨齾

[donmccurdy]

Hi, thanks for the report!

The resolution options currently provided map to --texture-size from msbf-bmfont-xml. It sounds like you're hoping to modify the --font-size flag, which would need to be added to the UI and then passed in here:

msdf-bmfont-web/api/create.js

Lines 37 to 44 in a1096b3

	async function create (fontID, fontFile, charset, textureSize) {
	const fontOptions = {
	filename: fontID,
	outputType: 'json',
	charset: charset,
	textureSize: [textureSize, textureSize],
	pot: true
	};

This seems like a good idea for PR, although I'm not sure when I can get to it myself.

[farteryhr]

i have some more aggressive idea that we could generate each character with variable/adaptive resolution (font size, internally), determined by bisection and somehow testing "it break the outline shape nowhere (under some proper given constraint on rendering)".
because of the variety of density of strokes in chinese characters, it needs double or triple the resolution only to render a small-but-tough subset of them correctly. there's much space could be saved.
though, maybe (again) it's not the right repo to talk about this improvement....

[donmccurdy]

Perhaps that's possible — I'm not sure. It would probably need to be proposed in the https://github.com/soimy/msdf-bmfont-xml project before it could be included here. Troika.js may also be worth a look.