aJynks Posted September 5 (edited) Little confused about adding new fonts to gzDoom. My understanding is I make a export of all the font glyphs and then use unicode i a fontdef to define the font.... I found an all called FontForge, than can export a installed font on windows as individual PNP image for each glyph. The thing is that it exports them all slightly different sizes.. maybe that is ok as doom places them form the mid point or something so different sizes will make a "g" hang lower and a "F" higher than a "m". What about the background colour? What colour should be set to be "removed". Or is the png supposed to be transparent? EDIT : I did find that app "UDFC_TEST_KOREANS"... but while it looks like it works fine.. most of the fonts on my system do not show up in the list to choose? Edited September 5 by aJynks 0 Share this post Link to post
Kappes Buur Posted September 5 You can go two ways with making fonts 1. the difficult way as in Hindsight2020's map Hindsight.pk3 , which has individual images for each letter. The bonus for that is you get exactly what your artistic vision guides you to. Download the pwad and inspect with Slade3. 2. the easy way would be by using BagHeadSpidey's DoomFont Generator , which is a frontend for ZDoom's Imagetool. The advantage is to have a vast selection of downloadable TTF fonts, for example DaFont.com It's a two-step process create a pcx image of the font, font.pcx create a lump from the image, font.lmp Then in a script specify Hudmessage Quote include "zcommon.acs" // =================================== script 2 OPEN { SetFont (const:"PATH"); SetHudSize(640, 480, 0); HudMessage(s:"ABCDEFG\n", s:"HIJKLMN\n", s:"OPQRSTU\n", s:"VWXYZ\n\n", s:"abcdefg hijklmn opqrstu vwxyz\n\n", s:"12345 67890"; HUDMSG_PLAIN, 0, 4, 350.0, 250.0, 25.0); } // ==================================== 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted September 5 (edited) For reference, you can open GZDoom's game_support.pk3 in SLADE, then look at filter/doom.id/fonts/, and see how it's made. One folder per font, one image file per character, and a font.inf file that contains optional information about font height and kerning. And yes, transparent parts should be transparent. For fonts that have both ascenders and descenders, use image offsets to align them. Example, in filter/game-heretic/fonts/defbigfont, you can compare 0145.lmp with 0.147.lmp. Set SLADE to display graphics as sprites (little drop-down widget next to offset boxes). Then move up and down between those two and note how the "n" doesn't move, because 0145's offset of -4 makes it move down to compensate for its lack of ascender. Edited September 5 by Gez 1 Share this post Link to post
aJynks Posted September 5 (edited) Thanks guys!! 5 hours ago, Kappes Buur said: 1. the difficult way as in Hindsight2020's map Hindsight.pk3 , which has individual images for each letter. The bonus for that is you get exactly what your artistic vision guides you to. Download the pwad and inspect with Slade3. this link dose not seem to work? If anyone has a file with an example of a custom font I can look at, that would be awesome. Thanks! Edited September 5 by aJynks 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted September 5 39 minutes ago, aJynks said: If anyone has a file with an example of a custom font I can look at, that would be awesome. Thanks! 3 hours ago, Gez said: For reference, you can open GZDoom's game_support.pk3 in SLADE 0 Share this post Link to post
aJynks Posted September 5 (edited) <doomworld seemed to have some kind of reboot or something, and my post was screwed up.. just going to edit this out and post again when it is back up and responsive> Edited September 5 by aJynks 0 Share this post Link to post
aJynks Posted September 5 (edited) More Questions With these unicode fonts, can you still use the colour options in the Draw command? Or are they only able to be the colour of the actual bitmap? As in if you want more colours do you need to duplicate the entire font in those colours? So if I want a red and a yellow version, I need to make two entire versions of the font? One for each colour? I found this cool mod : Custom Text Colour PK3 :: 260 New Colours! (@zandronum). It is for having more colour text options for deathmatch. Can these be used in normal doom wads? As extra colours? On the Unicode Font @zDoomWiki it says "Place all of the images under the /fonts/<yourfontname>/ folder in your PK3 archive. This way your font will be accessible everywhere with the name you gave to the folder." Dose this mean that you do not need to do any coding at all. Simply putting the font into the correct directory and everything will make it available via the directoryName? As in I could access it with something like this? class drawTest : EventHandler { override void RenderOverlay(RenderEvent c) { String stringTest = String.Format("This is a string test"); HUDFont myfont = HUDFont.Create(directoryName); Statusbar.BeginHUD(); Statusbar.DrawString(myfont, stringTest, (53,-43), Statusbar.DI_SCREEN_LEFT_BOTTOM | Statusbar.DI_TEXT_ALIGN_RIGHT, Font.CR_RED); } } 18 hours ago, aJynks said: I did find that app "UDFC_TEST_KOREANS"... but while it looks like it works fine.. most of the fonts on my system do not show up in the list to choose? I found out that the app will only read fonts installed to ALL USERS. Windows 11 obfuscates how to do this, which is a pain. Move Fonts from Users, into All Users Navigate to your user font folder : C:\Users\<YourUsername>\AppData\Local\Microsoft\Windows\Font Select the fonts you wish to move to All Users. Right Click, but DO NOT click "Install". Instead click : Show More Options You should see a different install option in the context menu : Install for All Users The Font is now installed into All Users. Follow the same steps for newly downloaded fonts. 13 hours ago, Gez said: For reference, you can open GZDoom's game_support.pk3 in SLADE, then look at filter/doom.id/fonts/, and see how it's made. One folder per font, one image file per character, and a font.inf file that contains optional information about font height and kerning. I'm so sorry, somehow I totally missed this reply yesterday! 0 Share this post Link to post
Gez Posted September 5 2 minutes ago, aJynks said: With these unicode fonts, can you still use the colour options in the Draw command? Yes of course. 2 minutes ago, aJynks said: I found this cool mod : Custom Text Colour PK3 :: 260 New Colours! (@zandronum). It is for having more colour text options for deathmatch. Can these be used in normal doom wads? As extra colours? Cf. Print. Custom colors can be used in text if you use the code \c[colorname]. 2 minutes ago, aJynks said: On the Unicode Font @zDoomWiki it says "Place all of the images under the /fonts/<yourfontname>/ folder in your PK3 archive. This way your font will be accessible everywhere with the name you gave to the folder." Dose this mean that you do not need to do any coding at all. Simply putting the font into the correct directory and everything will make it available via the directoryName? As in I could access it with something like this? Anything that needs a font name can use the directory name. Essentially, the directory is a font. 0 Share this post Link to post
aJynks Posted September 5 (edited) Ok.. thanks a lot man! I appreciate it 0 Share this post Link to post
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aJynks Posted September 7 seems that "Font.GetFont("infofont")" works.... HUDFont myfont = HUDFont.Create(Font.GetFont("infofont")); 0 Share this post Link to post
aJynks Posted September 7 Is there a way to scale the font in doom on draw? Without scaling the actual images? 0 Share this post Link to post
