LabelBMFont with setColor causes it to disappear

cocos2d-x JavaScript
#1

I’m using Cocos 2d HTML5 2.1.1 for my game. I use a bitmap font I created with Anglecode BMFont creator. I created the font initially as white with alpha background. I’m able to show the label as white (not setting any colour), but when I try to set a colour to the label, it disappears. Since my game uses a mostly white background, I’m forced to use black fonts with alpha background. Any reason why set color doesn’t work?

Regards
Hari

#2

can you show us your code?

#3

Maybe you want to look at how your blending your font with the layer underneath…. Thats one thing I can think of.

#4

Hi,

Here’s my code.

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timeLabel = cc.LabelBMFont.create(“0”, s_atari);
timeLabel.setScale(1, 1);
timeLabel.setAnchorPoint(cc.p(0.5, 0.5));
timeLabel.setPosition(winSize.width * 0.5, winSize.height - 48);
timeLabel.setColor(cc.blue());
layer.addChild(timeLabel);
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I didn’t set any blending functions. Just used the default ones. Are there any guidelines on how to create the BM fonts? FG, BG, alpha etc?