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J0linar
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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 04:42 Edited at: 11th Feb 2014 04:53
First

Make a backup of your fontbank folder.

The fontbank is located in

The Game Creators\FPS Creator Reloaded\Files\fontbank



now go ahead and Download

http://forum.thegamecreators.com/?m=forum_view&b=8&t=184828&p=0

this tool named Bitmap Font Creator



Once extracted start the tool, under the Generate TAB

make sure that Tileset and Extra Data is checked

along with the Save Power of 2 sized images field.




Now go to the Font TAB and select your Font, if the font is not selectable, make sure that you have set the edit Mode to Tileset.



For Reloaded you will need to create Fonts in the .png format.

The sizes currently used by Reloaded are 12, 24, 36, 40, 72, 128;

The .fnt files used by Reloaded are 24, 36, 40, 72, 128;



the .fnt files in the Reloaded fontbank folder are used by reloaded for

setting the coordinates of the png fonts.



To create the .fnt files you will need to check the Extra Data Field in the Generate TAB.



Once you are done with generating your Fonts, simply copy paste the content of the generated output subimages.txt and replace the contents of the stock FPSCR-Font-Subimages.fnt files. Replace the stock FPSCR-Font-.png files with your newly generated output.png



Note: It is strongly advised to make a backup of the Fontbank folder.

You will need to do the Font sizes one by one.



Further you can add text effects to your fonts, just play around with it and post your results here so that others can see what can be done.




Side Note, i will update this post with images to make it easier to follow up.

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AuShadow
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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 06:08
hope you dont mind added this to resource wiki here : http://fpscrresource.wikispaces.com/Mods+and+effects

Feel free to visit and edit the public FPSCR resource wiki page



http://fpscrresource.wikispaces.com/home
J0linar
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Posted: 11th Feb 2014 14:11
No i find it great that someone is making a wiki, keep it up

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2014 04:56
Quote: "Note:

You will need to do the Font sizes one by one."




I was following along with this but the above got me confused, what do you mean and when will the vids or pics be added to this thread please m8?



thanks looks interesting

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J0linar
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Posted: 3rd Apr 2014 06:07
The Font Tutorial was only ment to to ba basic tut, i had hoped that we would see

some kind of hud/font creation inside of reloaded but since all eyes are on performance it is unlikely that this will happen that soon.



I will update the tutororial as soon as i can.

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Posted: 3rd Apr 2014 06:09
right o m8 no problems thanks alot

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