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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #30 on: August 25, 2009, 12:50:59 PM »
I'm sorry, my request was already solved in previous posts.
Thx anyway.

No problem, post every dude doubt you have and I will solve it, live to serve...  ;)

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Edit: "duda" is doubt in spanish. A mistake corrected
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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #31 on: September 18, 2009, 06:33:26 PM »

It seems impossible to use fonts you have downloaded yourself, is it?

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #32 on: September 21, 2009, 05:02:52 PM »

It seems impossible to use fonts you have downloaded yourself, is it?

That is not true, before you must install the font file in the "Fonts" directory, reboot the computer and later select it from the list.
It should appear... if not...  :roll: well you can follow the other solution that I have posted some time ago.

Greetings, and I'll start the next version the next week ( :o)

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #33 on: September 21, 2009, 06:34:57 PM »
Swyter!!! Great work on 1.4, but please after releasing a new version go to the top of your thread and click "Modify", make changes to the title and the post and we'll find the new versions easier.

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #34 on: October 09, 2009, 07:06:30 PM »
Swyter!!! Great work on 1.4, but please after releasing a new version go to the top of your thread and click "Modify", make changes to the title and the post and we'll find the new versions easier.


Thanks for the tip, Ive update all the post... of my program

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #35 on: June 10, 2010, 11:07:35 PM »
I've used this customiser.. and perfectly replaced the default font with something more fitting...
But i'd like to increase the distance between the letters. they're packed too closely, especially the town and village names on the world map.

Does anyone know how to change this?

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #36 on: June 11, 2010, 12:16:53 PM »
I've used this customiser.. and perfectly replaced the default font with something more fitting...
But i'd like to increase the distance between the letters. they're packed too closely, especially the town and village names on the world map.

Does anyone know how to change this?

Of course, that distance it's defined by the True Type font you're using, some boldie fonts does not look good, you can solve this by replacing the Post Shift in FONT_DATA.XML, example:

Code: [Select]
postshift="16" change it to
Code: [Select]
postshift="20"
You also should think that boldie fonts are hardy readable in the tutorial's text block and some menus... Use a more lighter one.  ;)

Hope that helps!

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #37 on: June 11, 2010, 02:51:19 PM »
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It didn't look very boldie, until in-game :P


I've increased it with 10 now, and it looks okay on the map,.. 
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it's just that it's too big and wide nearly everywhere else. I might change it to +8, but this will still be an issue.

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Is there a way to scale it down, and/or decrease the width of the characters?
and, is it possible to put the .xml and .dds in Modules - My Module - Data/Textures, so it only shows up in the mod?
Also, what do the preshift values do?

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #38 on: June 11, 2010, 03:03:20 PM »
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It didn't look very boldie, until in-game :P


I've increased it with 10 now, and it looks okay on the map,.. 
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it's just that it's too big and wide nearly everywhere else. I might change it to +8, but this will still be an issue.

(click to show/hide)

Is there a way to scale it down, and/or decrease the width of the characters?
and, is it possible to put the .xml and .dds in Modules - My Module - Data/Textures, so it only shows up in the mod?
Also, what do the preshift values do?

Then you need Alt+Enter on the world map, and use some of the options in top of the screen, right? Such as you want to create new language files when you want to translate a certain mod?

EDIT: But I think I am mistaking :?.

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #39 on: June 11, 2010, 04:40:06 PM »
 :?: What the heck says the upper guy? ^
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Is there a way to scale it down, and/or decrease the width of the characters?
and, is it possible to put the .xml and .dds in Modules - My Module - Data/Textures, so it only shows up in the mod?
Also, what do the preshift values do?

Good replies I have today  :) , lastly I do not check the forum because I'm always answering the same stupid noob things. Finally something fresh!

1. About the first question, yes it's easy and a little cheater, locate that:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><FontData width="2048" height="1024" padding="2,2,2,2" font_size="94" font_scale="100" line_spacing="100"><FontDetails><character code="32" page="0" u="2030" v="0" w="2045" h="15" preshift="0" yadjust="11" postshift="32" />


You're telling the game that your glyphs are pretty big, so it resizes the font. Put higher values to make the font smaller and vice versa. (I've said this lots of times)
By experience "120" it's a good and moderate value.

2. About the second one, YES, I fought along all the time I've been in this forum to remove some limitations of the engine, finally the devs (Taleworlds Guys) have said "Modulable Data folders will be added in the next Warband patch"
[look here for the complete announcement]

If you're modding in the Original M&B, you can use Iron Launcher (look in my signature) I programmed it originally because people complain about that lack of engine features.

3. About the preshift, it moves the starting position of the glyph, useful for example in cool but weird experimental "j"

B a nj o
        ^ without good preshift


B a n j o
        ^ Perfect, we've adjusted it +3 because the postshift of "n" glyph was not enough.



Easy. Isn't?  ;)
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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #40 on: June 11, 2010, 05:21:54 PM »
:?: What the heck says the upper guy? ^

Never mind, mixed the things up and came to a complete wrong conclusion.

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #41 on: June 11, 2010, 05:23:56 PM »
1. Thx, I should've known.
2. Brilliant news! That way it will be easier to include lots of features. I am, however, now talking about 1.011, so will check out the iron launcher
3. Alright... just to be sure... this (spoiler beneath) is a postshift problem, with character g. Right?
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:?: What the heck says the upper guy? ^

Never mind, mixed the things up and came to a complete wrong conclusion.

'The upper guy' is my boss  :P, so be nice to him.

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #42 on: June 11, 2010, 08:06:30 PM »

3. Alright... just to be sure... this (spoiler beneath) is a postshift problem, with character g. Right?
(click to show/hide)

True, you need to add ~2-3 more poshift to the "g" (put it also "-1" preshift). Look at the "p", it is lightly displaced, needs ~1-2 + of poshift.

Edit: I forgot to tell you where to find a Decimal Unicode Character map. Look here the best thing you can found:
http://www.utf8-chartable.de/unicode-utf8-table.pl?utf8=dec

Here some examples, later you can find the correlation...
"g"=103
"p"=112

PD: Good mixture with the background color, the chromatic contrast it's superb... it looks better than the original. Usually people wants to put some ugly resized ultra detailed pics as bg. It's good to see some talented graphic designers here.

If you want to hear read a tip, create a custom font shadow (editing the FONT.DDS RGB channels, not alpha) This is used in the battle rolling text and city/party map labels. It will look outstanding. The only difference from amateur to expert, details...  ;)


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'The upper guy' is my boss  :P , so be nice to him.

Ha ha!  :) Good point!
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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #43 on: July 02, 2010, 04:06:08 PM »
If the cause is. Thai need to do.

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Re: Mount&Blade Font Customiser 1.4 By Swyter
« Reply #44 on: July 15, 2010, 01:21:56 AM »
Does it work well in generating Chinese fonts? I've tried it, but seems only generating english letters.
Could you tell me something about it please, Swyter?  :D