SS2 interface & HUD text font

[66349b8bd7177ZylonBane]

Tags: °fonts °SS2This archive contains the complete font family used for SS2's interface and HUD text, and the majority of the text on the in-game signage.

[66349b8bd73afKolya]

Hey that's pretty useful for creating System Shock stuff. I only had 2 variants of this font family before.

[66349b8bd7507ZylonBane]

Yeah, it's a really varied family. I had a heck of a time tracking down all the weights.

It's very similar to the Microgramma family, which I'd been using for the heavier weights until just recently.

[66349b8bd7652Zaboleq]

I have a question . How can I repleace original ssh2 font by a modificated font with polish letter ?I want to have polish font in ssh2 , I made polish font by modificated font in the first post , but original fonts have .fon extension and I have no idea how can I open it ...What should I do if I want to translate ssh2 to other language(in this case to polish)??

[66349b8bd77baKolya]

If I remember correctly fon files are basically bitmaps. Frankly I'd just leave them alone. The menu isn't that hard to understand in English. And translating all the textures and strings will be enough work. Once you have done that bulk work you might think about this detail again. Until then, good luck! 

[66349b8bd7979Nameless Voice]

You'll need Telliamed's Thief Font Converter to modify SS2's .fon files, by converting them to/from .bmp format.

[66349b8bd7ab5Zaboleq]

Ok i download thieffon but i don' know exactly how I should use them    .I extract it and try and launch thieffon.exe but that didn't work .I use win console(cmd wroted in windows console) and tryed again but nothing happened .What should I do if i want add eastern signs(polish letter) to ssh2 font ??How should I us thief fon or other programs?

[66349b8bd7baaKolya]

There is a manual thieffon.txt coming with it. Did you read that?

[66349b8bd7cdaZaboleq]

Yes but I have no idea what I should do I tryed directing which are describe in thieffon.txt (thieffon -c and other) but I get only this communique : Thief Font Converter 1.0 :|  ... What should I do write in console ??

[66349b8bd7e17Kolya]

If you can't come up with a more specific question I can't help you. Do you expect me to write a step by step guide for you? Maybe it's time to rethink whether you have the skills right now for what you plan to do. You should start reading a lot more and asking a lot less questions until you have gained some basic knowledge.

[66349b8bd7f77Zaboleq]

Ohhh You are too aggressive
Usually i don't use dos aplication as thief fone .This is verry specific aplication and I have right to don't know what  I should do :| .Sorry about that ...

[66349b8bd812dNameless Voice]

usage:
thieffon -c [-m|-a] [-s] [-f num] [-b num] [-p num] [-w num] image_file fon_file
thieffon -d [-b num] [-p num] [-w num] fon_file image_file [pal_file]

So, for example, you'd use ThiefFon.exe -d MainFont.fon MainFont.bmp to convert MainFont.fon to MainFont.bmp, and ThiefFon.exe -c NewMainFont.bmp NewMainFont.fon to convert NewMainFont.bmp to NewMainFont.fon.

[66349b8bd8214Zaboleq]

Success !!    Thx for help

[66349b8bd8343Kolya]

Zaboleq, you changed your posts in this thread to make yourself look less clueless. This isn't a beauty contest.
I wasn't being aggressive, I tried to point you at the fact that you need to work and think yourself first.
Then ask questions on what your problems are. Say what you have done already to solve a problem. Copy error messages.
People will be a lot more helpful if they see you tried to solve problems yourself before asking.

[66349b8bd84d7entertainer]

Hello,

I want to ask tips for editing BLUEAA.bmp, BOLDAA.bmp, DIMMED.bmp, KEYFONTA.bmp, MAINAA.bmp font bitmaps.
Cause when opened with Photoshop(using aafon.act): http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/7905/whitehv2.png
Without aafon.act: http://img50.imageshack.us/img50/664/blacksy7.png
And how you supposed to edit this? The characters are very unrecognizable..

Any tips and help appreciated...
Thanks.

[66349b8bd85d5Nameless Voice]

Telliamed answered this question on TTLG

[66349b8bd87a6voodoo47]

aha, so that's probably the reason why I wasn't able to export any SS2 fonts. does anyone have the file? http://whoopdedo.org/ss2fonts.zip

[66349b8bd88b8ZylonBane]

Is this the right file?

[66349b8bd89d0voodoo47]

no idea, will try to play with it tomorrow. thanks.

[66349b8bd8dbeKolya]

aha, so that's probably the reason why I wasn't able to export any SS2 fonts. does anyone have the file? http://whoopdedo.org/ss2fonts.zip

Pretty sure it's the one attached here: https://www.systemshock.org/index.php?topic=609