m6_font_import tool

PoUëT · 09-01-2007

Did you follow this explaination ?

m6_font_import tool

DChronos · 09-02-2007

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.

mbarry · 09-02-2007

Wow. Good Job. Has anyone created a skin with the new fonts?

iversonjack · 09-02-2007

Yes, and it looks great. Except still trying to get the chinese fonts to work...

gilliu00_ · 09-02-2007

so if i use this, will it only change the english font and leave the chinese font?

or will it screw up the chinese font's as well..because if it just leaves the chinese font's then i'll use it

iversonjack · 09-02-2007

It will only change the english and number fonts. Chinese will remain the same.

gilliu00_ · 09-02-2007

i imported the new font and the english font looks awesome, but i can't really tell if the chinese font has been changed or not

it looks like it has been...

DChronos · 09-02-2007

I have a question for you, Asmo. Could someone use this tool to change only a range of characters in the font? I'm asking for the sake of someone that would want to change the text to one font and then the numbers to another font. Can you do that with this, or could the ability be made?

Asmo · 09-02-2007

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Originally Posted by DChronos

I have a question for you, Asmo. Could someone use this tool to change only a range of characters in the font? I'm asking for the sake of someone that would want to change the text to one font and then the numbers to another font. Can you do that with this, or could the ability be made?

I'm surprised, did anyone read the first post?

Add ranges you want to import to font.txt! It's already implemented!
For example if you don't need 0x0400 0x04f0 range, cause this is range for cyrillic characters, you can remove this range and add your own.

madman · 09-02-2007

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Originally Posted by iversonjack

Yes, and it looks great. Except still trying to get the chinese fonts to work...

I managed to load a couple of the Chinese fonts from the Vista Language pack as well as a couple of unicode fonts downloaded from the net, but only ones with English displayed names. Fonts with Chinese character names did not load.