Font texture bug

I experimented with the font.
But the font works with bugs (black spots):


Font texture in Paint.NET:


How can I fix it?

IIRC Warband is pretty nitpicky to alpha channel when it comes to fonts. But kill me if I remember what exactly it wants. Just compare the chars that look right to chars that look wrong I guess...

Texture in OpenBrf:


Why black on left side?

You are viewing the pic without alpha-channel.

Switch to alpha transparency and you'll see how the texture actually looks like.

And it seems the reason for your problems is that characters on the left half are on white transparent background, while characters on right half are on black transparent background.

Meanwhile, vanilla font has all characters on white transparent background.

Strictly speaking, transparent is transparent and it shouldn't matter to Warband what RGB color transparent pixels actually have. But apparently it does matter. As I said, pretty nitpicky.

Janycz said:

Texture in OpenBrf:

Why black on left side?

Click to expand...

You don't seem to understand the RGBA encoding used by the game in :

RGB -> Background shadow/outline.
A -> Standard glyph shape, essentially a mask multiplied by the color.


Basically what you have to do is set the RGB to white except in the zones where a shadow is needed. Your alpha (A) channel is correct.