24. February 2013, 19:45:51

#10

MarvinQuote

I'm currently trying to improve the german translation but I cannot get the main menu to work. The umlauts don't display corectly, not even if the original OEM850 encoding is used. The .fon files here don't help either as the menu still functions even if the font.crf and all .fon files are deleted, which means that System Shock gets the appropiate files from somewhere else. Somewhere I don't know.

Any ideas?


Edit: Ah, got it, it's metafont.fon in intrface.crf. The special characters are just copied from the basic ASCII characters without actually doing anything with them. I'll try to solve it, although I'm not very much into ShockED (read: I've never done anything with it).

Edit2: Okay, converted the font to bmp with the Palette1.pal from intrface.crf but that palette apparently specifies the same colours for background/transparency and character border box:
Image: http://i.imgur.com/zMJQjz4.png

How am I supposed to edit this? The "ss" has to be changed to the narrower "ß".


Edit3: Ok, whatever palette I chose, the result is always the same: Blue, garish colours (instead of grey) without transparency:
Image: http://s1.directupload.net/images/130224/z28n3f4p.png

I'm pretty sure this task is considered trivial by experienced DromEDers. Could anyone push me in the right direction?

Edit4: Nevermind, solved it, the font should have been monochrome all along.

24. February 2013, 22:06:38

#11

gnartschQuote

Well, you simply can not change the color in the font, since the color is set in the game.
The font just gives you the shapes of the characters.
I can barely see anything in the font which looks like öäüß, but maybe you can try to edit the text which is used in the menu (or elsewhere) and insert äöüß.
Then try to see which character from the font is used for that and modify it if necessary.
But there is also the chance that the font does not have any characters reserved for german umlauts at all.
(You might want to check the other fonts and see if any of them has any äöüß, and where they would be located within the font)

24. February 2013, 22:35:05

#12

MarvinQuote

As seen in the edits, I solved the problem, I just forgot to add the monochrome flag to thieffon.exe. These are the necessary steps:

1) thieffon.exe -d -m metafont.fon metafont.bmp
2) Edit metafont.bmp - GIMP can deal with it out of the box without mixing up the palette or anything
3) thieffon.exe -c -m -a metafont.bmp metafont.fon

... and then add metafont.fon to \DataPermMods\intrface\

09. January 2016, 03:26:02

#13

❓ natanprogQuote

Hi!

I am new here 

I have this file metafont.fon(https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B4Q6aFb7R-x7eGtLWTh0SXp5X2c) running smoothly
but I want to make a change in the letter "í" (Image: http://i.imgur.com/DgWmFgD.png)

I followed the procedures of the previous message, but I get a file .fon what does not (Image: http://i.imgur.com/0vL4N7j.png)

I know I do not have the necessary knowledge... maybe it's something simple

someone with the necessary knowledge, can tell me what I'm doing wrong and what should I do?

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I'm sorry for my english

09. January 2016, 12:40:45

#14

KolyaQuote

Mmh, for some reason it seems to drop the last 2 rows of glyphs. No idea what's going wrong here. Maybe someone with more experience in converting the fonts can help. ZylonBane?
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