13. March 2024, 12:37:00

#0

miracle.flameQuote

I am about to use this font tool to modify fonts that come with TFix mods (e.g. EP\Books\Parch\TextFont.fon) and add accented characters for fanmade CZ localization. For some reason the fanmade CZ TextFont.fon does not look well after replacing the EP one.

So far I had no luck understanding how to configure the many switches and options of thieffon to get proper results. I am attaching what I get when TextFont.fon files are converted by simple autodetection method to bmp. I guess the colors are off to begin with.

Besides that I also want to expand the CZ localization by subtitles from subtitles mod by RobinG I suppose. I found out that the fanmade FONTAA29cz.fon does not work with characters řýďňů while FONTAA36cz.fon (and the other sizes of of aa) does - attaching 36 for reference. I could find visible difference between 29 and 36 bmps so I've attempted to fix that but it seems like some glyphs are still not detected when using:
thieffon.exe -c -A FONTAA29czFixed.bmp fontaa29.fon aafon.pal
Thief Font Converter 1.2
Converting image FONTAA29czFixed.bmp to fontaa29.fon...
Found 223 glyphs.

...still doesn't work.. and not sure how to get around this. Could someone help?

Attachments:

generic TextFontEP.fongeneric TextFontEP.fon generic TextFontEP.fon 29.57 kB, 2 downloads

🃏 TextFontEP.bmp 109.77 kB, 283 x 392 px

generic TextFontCZ.fongeneric TextFontCZ.fon generic TextFontCZ.fon 35.77 kB, 3 downloads

🃏 TextFontCZ.bmp 125.3 kB, 283 x 448 px

🃏 FONTAA29cz.bmp 164.53 kB, 357 x 465 px

🃏 FONTAA29czFixed.bmp 486.85 kB, 357 x 465 px

generic FONTAA29czFixed.fongeneric FONTAA29czFixed.fon generic FONTAA29czFixed.fon 61.16 kB, 1 downloads

🃏 FONTAA36cz.bmp 296.05 kB, 472 x 640 px

13. March 2024, 13:20:20

#1

voodoo47Quote

I would start here https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?wap2;topic=11286

I actually did the CZ fonts for the SS2 CZ translation. I don't think I want to work with fonts, ever again.

13. March 2024, 14:38:02

#2

ZylonBaneQuote

Looks like the forum software doesn't supports BMPs as well as it thinks it does.

13. March 2024, 15:04:36

#3

miracle.flameQuote

OK, I was able to fix fontaa29.fon - glyph between í and ď was missing still.
Now to find out how to properly convert EP\Books\Parch\TextFont.fon or find out what type, bpp or pallette use there. SS2 reference card is great, if only there was such table for Thief fonts.

UPDATE:
I tried all three (two) "Converting FON to BMP" methods from the reference card and the best result seems to be the one already attached. Is that really it? I can barely make what letters they are.

Also I wanted to ask if it is possible to have the subtitles background in movies semi-opaque... I've tried to have
use_d3d_display
d3d_disp_2d_overlay_alpha 0.6
and movsubtitles_bg_color 0 0 0 128
but it's still solid black.

13. March 2024, 15:54:27

#4

ZylonBaneQuote

Like the docs say, Thief fonts use the Thief palette. Did you use the Thief palette? There's a copy of it (I think, never tested it) included in the SS2 font reference, under Tools/Font Tool v1_1.zip/aafon.pal.