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Fonts mixing
Posted: Mon May 29, 2023 4:06 pm
by L57
Thank you!
I have also one more question (off-topic, but related), though I know this is pretty obvious suggestion, and it has already been discussed somewhere: is it possible to fix somehow font mixing in dialog boxes? I mean those buttons like "Repair item", "Talk", etc. If Modern style font chosen, two or three of these entries are still written in Classic font in CAPS, while the bottom line is written in Modern font (and not CAPS), usually "Sell" or "Banking".
I assume Classic font in these entries is "hard-coded", if it's so perhaps it would be better to switch "Sell" and "Banking" to Classic CAPS font even if the player has selected Modern style font in general?
Re: [Resolved 0.15.3] Background: question marks with Classic font
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 8:28 pm
by 13thsyndicate
This is because some of the buttons are images, which were made to match classic font, while others are blank and have words imposed over them. Why they did it this way, nobody knows.
Re: [Resolved 0.15.3] Background: question marks with Classic font
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:27 pm
by pango
(Splitting the topic)
A solution, that I find better than using classic fonts for backgrounds that already contain hardcoded texts, would be to hide hardcoded texts, then write all texts with current font.
To remove texts from original assets without including the original assets themselves in DFU, would be to include "patches" to hide classic texts. Good tool for that could be GIMP Resynthesize plugin's "heal transparency", then "Animation optimize".
Say, I clone the layer of the original background, then I select existing text, on upper layer,
- Heal transparency before.jpg (200.42 KiB) Viewed 724 times
Making sure the upper layer has a transparency channel I cut the original text then ask the "heal transparency" function to fill in the hole with pieces of surrounding texture. It's part random, if you're not satisfied you can undo and try again.
- Heal transparency after.jpg (172.4 KiB) Viewed 724 times
Once you're satisfied you can use "Animation optimize" to only keep modified pixels, compared to the original image that's still on the bottom layer:
- Heal transparency only.jpg (186.47 KiB) Viewed 724 times
Re: Fonts mixing
Posted: Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:32 pm
by pango
Resulting patch, if anybody interested
- Tavern patch.png (2 KiB) Viewed 720 times
Re: [Resolved 0.15.3] Background: question marks with Classic font
Posted: Tue Jun 13, 2023 4:44 pm
by MrFlibble
pango wrote: ↑Sat Jun 03, 2023 11:27 pm
Making sure the upper layer has a transparency channel I cut the original text then ask the "heal transparency" function to fill in the hole with pieces of surrounding texture. It's part random, if you're not satisfied you can undo and try again.
Wow, if only I had something like this back in the early-mid 2000s when I was fiddling with fanmade localizations of
Command & Conquer games.