hi,
so i've been trying to get custom fonts into GG, however no known .fnt format seems to work.
when i load the .fnt files from the included fonts into programs like "fontforge" it tells me its not a known .fnt format.
so how do i get fonts compatible with GG ? what programs do you use to create these special .fnt files?
i followed the steps mentioned in global.lua and made sure the filenames match, but when looking into the .fnt files the GG ones look different from any .fnt format i've tried (like text,binary,xml).. any help would be appreciated!

GameGuru uses bitmap fonts, the .fnt file is only a index containing the location of each letter

you can use this excellent tool to create bitmap fonts that should work with GG

https://forum.thegamecreators.com/thread/184828

Thanks, PTC! I haven't messed with custom fonts yet but my game tribute to Gilligan's Island will definitely need this!

Thank you PartTimeCoder for the link. Should prove very useful.

thanks for the link! now the format seems fine, but it still doesn't work for me.
i wrote a quick test script:



even tried to switch to the included font "Outline72".
do i miss anything ?

SetFont: SetFont ( "myFont" , 1)

To change in game font. Fonts 1-3 are the default ones used.

NOTE: You can place your texture atlas bitmap font file in the Files\fontbank\ folder with the name FPSCR-Font-XX.png where XX is the unique name for your font.

When you want to use it, simply call the command SetFont ( "XX", YY ) where XX is the unique name above and YY is the index you want to 'overwrite'.

Remember to include the 'FPSCR-Font-XX-Subimages.fnt' file which describes the coordinates within the texture atlas image for the specific bitmap fonts contained therein.

I guess I will have to try this.

yes thats the steps i followed.. also tried to overwrite different indexes (YY 1-4).
filenames should also be fine: FPSCR-Font-test72.png and FPSCR-Font-test72-Subimages.fnt

Na I cant get any custom fonts to show either, I can overwrite the original "24px" and my custom font shows in the loading screens so I know its fine but try and set it from script is a no go

I have attached the font files and a simple script, could someone else please look into it

prompt.lua

About to test this out

Thanks Myke

Hmmm. Cant seem to get this to work either on the new build also.

I even tried initiating it from a trigger zone with a modified script to call this font code. No prompts or text shown, and the prompts from other door objects are still the default.

I will have to do some research on this.

Going to move this thread to Bug reports section.

Thanks.

thanks a lot for looking into it!

any news on this ?

Still not working. I also noticed that there is no function called SetFont in the global.lua file.