new font

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 6:27 pm

I just wasted 1.5 hours of my life using the pencil in photoshop putting down single pixels in an attempt to make a better font ?

I drew them in the old 80's arcade style and you are welcome to use it if ya like, the character format is 7+1 wide and 9+1 high ( the 1's being a space between rows / cols )

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 9:18 am

thats to size? (im lazy i havent checked yet)

looks awesome i love retro arcade stuff

mebbe i use it someday in a graphics "total conversion" mod or sth..

thx

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:44 pm

bigger than the original 4+1 pixel wide font so you will need to tweak the source code ever so slightly

actually if you tweak it right you can make the code auto-size so it would take any size font you throw at it
ie:
chrwidth=imagewidth/16 (16 characters wide)
chrheight=imageheight/14 (14 character high)

btw after 1.5 hours and the pixel plotter I got tired and stopped at chr code 127 (thats why its only 6 characters high) but I will finish it off to chr 255 including all the accents one day

edit
I also replaced the "`" character with "£" so that us uk guys can talk about pounds lol

edit2 corrected some mistakes in this post

Post by **Tank Program** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 5:39 pm

i'll look into it... it'd be funky looking at a font like this, especially considering in the movie tron is originally portrayed as an arcade game...

solstice · Post by **solstice** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:54 pm

hi ..love the look of your arcade font but how on earth do i get it into the game please

Sabarai · Post by **Sabarai** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:26 pm

make a euro symbol, lol
anyway, nice font, but does that take ONE AND A HALF hours?
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Your_mom · Post by **Your_mom** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 9:29 pm

solstice wrote:how on earth do i get it into the game please

Well you sure dont change it into a png(erasing the black into transparent) without changing any code because that would look like this... i need to not rush into stuff lol btw 2 minutes worth of work lol

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 10:18 pm

yes source code needs changing, thats why i didnt bother converting it to png

did you try saveing it as font_s.png for the game chat ?
(no dont bother just as pointless

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n54 · Post by **n54** » Fri Feb 11, 2005 2:24 am

the font files follow an ascii version (don't remember which but i think it's extended latin-1 german or something like that) so it's not a neccesarily good idea to replace characters.

anyone feel up to expanding the characters coding to a unicode version? in the end unicode will be the solution and open up for more languages.

font support and character support easily becomes a chicken and egg situation but there are probably more people who can make fonts (graphical files) than can code the support for it so the code should come first imo. not that i expect either to happen over night

btw here's the thread with the fonts i tweaked/made long ago: http://guru3.sytes.net/viewtopic.php?t=807&start=0

SuPeRTaRD · Post by **SuPeRTaRD** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 3:12 pm

"anyone feel up to expanding the characters coding to a unicode version? in the end unicode will be the solution and open up for more languages. "

yeh, i could do that,.. if you hold my hand & get me started , i have font creation experiance..

should i use those ones you started that u linked to in a diff thread?

u want to fill the charectors right?

i know the big font has less than the small font.. but u want both to have more?

explain in detail what u need & i can do the pixel pushing part...

edit: i'm real fond of that arcade font iceman made, i could make the new font in that style ?

iceman · Post by **iceman** » Sat Feb 12, 2005 8:24 pm

i designed this font for the chat but it would work well for menus too
i'll finish it off within a few days