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To tERROR:
There are so many "free" font creation tools out there that I spent a whole day about 5 months ago already looking for them and found nothing but crap that does not work, or stuff that is free... for the first few days until you pay OUT THE ASS amount of money for them. Also, using a real glyph creation tool that does all the fancy shit I've seen is like using Photoshop to modify a the color of a one pixel image. These fonts are the size of this box [] and do not use antiailiasing like all windows and other fonts, they are SOLID PIXEL fonts. A simple small pixel (20 PIXEL small) editor to make a font is all that's needed. Also, the only tools the make graphical image fonts as test are bitmap font programs, of which I have for game fonts. I was looking for a font creator in order to modify an italic default font from a game into a regular straight standing font like it IS in the game, so I know how expensive these font creators are.
Why the hell are you against something you don't HAVE to use? If he makes it, it is not like you will be forced to use it so, IT DOES NOT AFFECT YOU! Arguing against something that does not even affect you at all is bullshit. I'm sorry , but as this DOES affect me and everyone else wishing to make a simple font for the M6 without going out and buying a font creation tool, or using one, and then making a font the very complicated way, and then building it, and then creating a windows font out of it (which means you MUST have a program that costs money to use, I've done the research, and anything that does this costs money, because it's like photoshop, "professional" crap), and THEN using the font importer instead of using a font creator in the importer, getting a font and building the M6 font out of it right there, then modifying it, or making your own font right in the importer, and then simply importing it.
Stop posting pointless "I'm against" comments for something you have no interest in that does not affect how you use your M6 or the font importer. Please. I'm sure that a lot of people actually want this kind of thing.
Also, as Lexridge stated, it is not rocket science. Make some letters you can read in the limited space, and boom... done. Making a font is as easy as writing in a new style when you're dealing with characters that get no bigger than 20x20, the size of handwriting. It isn't rocket science to make an M6 font, and it should not take professional tools to and a whole shitload of work to do it. Professional tools are used for real fonts because they make SCALABLE fonts that scaled down and up to any size, using a form of vector graphics and antiailiasing.
Hmm... you know, for that matter, tERROR, if you want to think that way, they should take the preview creator out of the skin importer because why have that simple tool when you can take a screenshot, open an image editor, paste it in, cut and crop and fix it up, and then save it in some format instead of clicking a button to make the preview? Your logic fails, ok?
Anyway, if it's any consolation, have fun at that concert.
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