Xhizors
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Font Question
Hello.
I made a 12px Arial font and it looks like image #1, Then I display this image like this.
Code:
// Load Fonts
font_Areal12px = Fonts("Fonts/Arial12px.font");
Text_ds.font = font_Areal12px;
Text_ds.scale = Vec2( 0.06, 0.06 );
Text_ds.color = 0xFFFAFAFB;
Text_ds.shadow = 0;
In game the font does not look anything like this, Check image #2. ( Yes I have all characters in the image, Just display this on the image just compare the two big 'F's)
Any ideas why it looks more "bold"? I just want it to look the same 
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| 09-16-2009 08:32 AM |
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Xhizors
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Re: Font Question
Sooo any ideas?
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| 09-17-2009 12:50 PM |
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Esenthel
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Re: Font Question
generally it is not recommended to use so small fonts and then draw them with 1:1 pixel to pixel,
this isn't used in modern games, and doesn't look good, and font has different visible sizes according to selected resolution.
altough I think it is possible to enable that:
Code:
Byte f=D.filter(); D.filter(0); // disable filtering
TextDS tds; tds.scale=D.pixelToScreenSize(VecI2(12,12)); // set 1:1 pixel to pixel font size
D.text(tds,"text");
D.filter(f); // restore filtering
But I haven't tested it, so I dont know if it work ok,
you should test different values, not only 12,12
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| 09-17-2009 01:13 PM |
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Xhizors
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Re: Font Question
Esenthel Wrote:generally it is not recommended to use so small fonts and then draw them with 1:1 pixel to pixel,
this isn't used in modern games, and doesn't look good, and font has different visible sizes according to selected resolution.
altough I think it is possible to enable that:
Code:
Byte f=D.filter(); D.filter(0); // disable filtering
TextDS tds; tds.scale=D.pixelToScreenSize(VecI2(12,12)); // set 1:1 pixel to pixel font size
D.text(tds,"text");
D.filter(f); // restore filtering
But I haven't tested it, so I dont know if it work ok,
you should test different values, not only 12,12
I tried this, but the result was not that good. I also tested 18 in size, but its to large.
So how can I render 12px size fonts in good resolution? Possible?
Thanks.
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| 09-17-2009 02:47 PM |
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Xhizors
Member
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Re: Font Question
It should be good, because I really want to use this font Can you test it out?
Thanks.
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| 09-18-2009 10:31 AM |
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Esenthel
Administrator
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Re: Font Question
have you tried putting different values here VecI2(12,12)); ?
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| 09-18-2009 10:39 AM |
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Xhizors
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Re: Font Question
Esenthel Wrote:have you tried putting different values here VecI2(12,12)); ?
Yes I have, The font gets bigger and seems like its bold.
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| 09-18-2009 11:08 AM |
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Esenthel
Administrator
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RE: Font Question
this will work in the next engine release:
-wait for the next sdk
-recreate your font
-use the following code:
Code:
Byte f=D.filter(); D.filter(0); // disable filtering
TextDS tds; tds.scale=D.pixelToScreenSize(font.height()); // set 1:1 pixel to pixel font size
D.text(tds,"text");
D.filter(f); // restore filtering
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| 10-17-2009 01:53 PM |
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