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DChronos · 08-31-2007

Hey, you know what you need now? An M6 font CREATION tool for people to create their own 16x16 and 20x20 fonts with via a simple black and white pixel drawing program. You could make it have a large view for drawing on with a black grid (white tile squares) showing each pixel of the character you're creating, and a small view that shows what it will look like beside the large one. When you draw, you draw in black. Also, set it up so that you know what character you are drawing for, like at the top, it could say "Glyph for letter 'a'", so you know when you save the font, the glyph you drew is for that letter.

Also, the button assignments for the program would be easy: left click to draw black, right click to erase the black, and then an undo function. Also, the ability to import a font and view it in the size the same way your program does it would be awesome, so people could import a font and then make adjustments to each glyph if needed, or if they just want to.

People with an image editor that does text could also type their font and then shrink it and choose for themselves the best pixels to keep and which to toss out for transparent pixels.

How does that sound?

Also, I had edited my post while you were replying and asked: "Also, how stable is this? If you import a font to the M6, it isn't gonna mess anything up, is it?"

One last question I'd like to ask about is, how come the fonts, what I remember, looked like rectangular shapes, taller than they were wide? I thought they were like that, because something the same width and height would look either fat as a font, or spaced out too far... especially with characters like i and a period or other mark. Does the M6 overlap characters placing a set amount of empty space between the actual edge pixels of the font's characters or something?

08-31-2007	#5 (permalink)
DChronos Valued Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: Middle of the U.S. Posts: 347	Hey, you know what you need now? An M6 font CREATION tool for people to create their own 16x16 and 20x20 fonts with via a simple black and white pixel drawing program. You could make it have a large view for drawing on with a black grid (white tile squares) showing each pixel of the character you're creating, and a small view that shows what it will look like beside the large one. When you draw, you draw in black. Also, set it up so that you know what character you are drawing for, like at the top, it could say "Glyph for letter 'a'", so you know when you save the font, the glyph you drew is for that letter. Also, the button assignments for the program would be easy: left click to draw black, right click to erase the black, and then an undo function. Also, the ability to import a font and view it in the size the same way your program does it would be awesome, so people could import a font and then make adjustments to each glyph if needed, or if they just want to. People with an image editor that does text could also type their font and then shrink it and choose for themselves the best pixels to keep and which to toss out for transparent pixels. How does that sound? Also, I had edited my post while you were replying and asked: "Also, how stable is this? If you import a font to the M6, it isn't gonna mess anything up, is it?" One last question I'd like to ask about is, how come the fonts, what I remember, looked like rectangular shapes, taller than they were wide? I thought they were like that, because something the same width and height would look either fat as a font, or spaced out too far... especially with characters like i and a period or other mark. Does the M6 overlap characters placing a set amount of empty space between the actual edge pixels of the font's characters or something? __________________ I swim through a sea of stars, without looking back to shore... Faster than light, bending time. Forever. Wherever. ~R-Type Final M6 Skinning Templates \| M6 Skins List Last edited by DChronos : 08-31-2007 at 09:57 PM.