Mount&Blade Font Customiser {1.4} | By Swyter

[Cozur]

Does this work with Warband?

 

[Swyter]

Does this work with Warband?

The font files are just the same for all the modern Mount&Blade games. So... yes.

Just copy

FONT_DATA.xml

to your

\Data

folder and

FONT.dds

into your

\Textures

one, both within

<M&B Main Root>\Modules\Your Mod's Name\

.
Start the game and enjoy the change.

 

[kuauik]

i dont get it,there is no way to add custom font..in the previous version ,there was a scroll down menu
ok fixed,run as administrator

 

[Tryggvi]

Swyter, could you reupload the 1.4.1 version please? There is no folder on the mediafire.

 

[Swyter]

Swyter, could you reupload the 1.4.1 version please? There is no folder on the mediafire.

The upload was in MBrepository, which works flawlessly. Here's the direct link:

http://www.mbrepository.com/download.php?id=1503&f=MBFCv1.4.zip

It's in the first post, but, as you probably noticed, the images are broken, and so the download button.
Have fun!

 

[Tryggvi]

Swyter, thank you very much!

 

[Hypno Toad]

Public service announcement for GIMP users here, I just went through a hellish time (2 hours of failure) trying to invert the RBG channels to get rid of the black boxes around text, and it's simply not possible to do with the normal decompose channel tool that GIMP has. GIMP is totally ass backwards as **** in terms of alpha/rgb options, totally broken. So do this totally unintuitive solution instead >

What you have to do:

- open up your .dds file in GIMP with the .DDS plugin:

- Use the "select by color" tool, set it to the maximum threshold, then select the whitest part of one of the white letters. Now all the letters in the image will be selected.

- Fire up the paint brush tool, go to the color selection window, and copy/paste this number into the HTML notation: 474747. Hit "OK" and a flat grey color should get selected.

- Paint over all the white characters with this grey color. Don't miss any spots. Or use the fill tool, whatever you prefer.

- With the letters/numbers still selected Go to Layer > Transparency > Remove alpha channel. Now here's the kicker, go to Layer > Transparency > Add alpha channel. How's that for redundancy.

- Go to Select > Invert.

- Now erase everything that is selected in the image (IE: everything that is white.. leave the grey characters) until you have an alpha background.

This whole ridiculous process should have accomplished the desired goal of inverting only the rgb channels, and making them the correct duo-tone colors. Save the .dds as DXT5 compression, with mipmaps enabled then you should be good to go.

I'm unaware of any better solution, so if anybody knows one, please for the love of god, correct me

 

[Swyter]

Public service announcement for GIMP users here, I just went through a hellish time (2 hours of failure) trying to invert the RBG channels to get rid of the black boxes around text, and it's simply not possible to do with the normal decompose channel tool that GIMP has. GIMP is totally ass backwards as **** in terms of alpha/rgb options, totally broken. So do this totally unintuitive solution instead >

What you have to do:

- open up your .dds file in GIMP with the .DDS plugin:

- Use the "select by color" tool, set it to the maximum threshold, then select the whitest part of one of the white letters. Now all the letters in the image will be selected.

- Fire up the paint brush tool, go to the color selection window, and copy/paste this number into the HTML notation: 474747. Hit "OK" and a flat grey color should get selected.

- Paint over all the white characters with this grey color. Don't miss any spots. Or use the fill tool, whatever you prefer.

- With the letters/numbers still selected Go to Layer > Transparency > Remove alpha channel. Now here's the kicker, go to Layer > Transparency > Add alpha channel. How's that for redundancy.

- Go to Select > Invert.

- Now erase everything that is selected in the image (IE: everything that is white.. leave the grey characters) until you have an alpha background.

This whole ridiculous process should have accomplished the desired goal of inverting only the rgb channels, and making them the correct duo-tone colors. Save the .dds as DXT5 compression, with mipmaps enabled then you should be good to go.

I'm unaware of any better solution, so if anybody knows one, please for the love of god, correct me

Run Font Customiser with Admin privileges. That should work.
If doesn't and there's a need I can recode the entire thing.

As with

swycartographer

I've pretty much re-implemented half of the mount&blade font rendering subsystem,
this is just going backwards using a cute DDS/DXT lib called

[url=http://www.lonesock.net/soil.html]SOIL[/url]

, based on

[url=http://nothings.org/stb/stb_image_write.h]stb_image_write[/url]

.

And the tiny but neat

[url=http://nothings.org/stb/stb_truetype.h]stb_ttf[/url]

in substitution of the heavy freetype2.
Both in C and pretty minimalist. And who on earth needs a real XML dumper?

 

[Hypno Toad]

I'm running with admin privledges, but I wouldn't really say it's an issue with your program. It should be a dead simple job to invert the RGB channel but GIMP has serious issues in that regard, likewise it also makes it really difficult to add proper alpha channels to VTF files (valve texture format)

Just a shortcoming with GIMP.

 

[Swyter]

I'm running with admin privledges, but I wouldn't really say it's an issue with your program. It should be a dead simple job to invert the RGB channel but GIMP has serious issues in that regard, likewise it also makes it really difficult to add proper alpha channels to VTF files (valve texture format)

Just a shortcoming with GIMP.

All hail the mighty hypno toad! Now seriously, Photoshop is also a pain to work with for these matters.
You don't really want to mess with textures having pre-multiplied alpha channel and stuff like that.

My program is from 2009, this needs an urgent rewrite, someday. Thankies for bringing it up!

 

[Olroda]

An excellent tool, this. It aided me greatly. Good work, Swyter.

 

[ValerBOSS]

Swyter, is there any way to "de-"generate M&B font from texture and .xml to windows font?

 

[Swyter]

Swyter, is there any way to "de-"generate M&B font from texture and .xml to windows font?

Not feasible. You'd have to retrace to vectors every single glyph from a bitmap with a program like FontForge.

If you want the original Mount&Blade typefaces then take a look to this thread:

http://forums.taleworlds.com/index.php?topic=140747.0

Another option is to post a short text in a site like What The Font or Dafont's forum, they work very well:

http://www.myfonts.com/WhatTheFont/
http://www.dafont.com/forum/

 

[ValerBOSS]

Oh yes, vectors, i simply forgot it. Anyway, thx for reply.

 

[ValerBOSS]

And one more question: does your tool support kerning?

 

[Swyter]

And one more question: does your tool support kerning?

Yeah, it does. Albeit with some trouble.
Manual tweaks on the xml are needed for some specific chars.

(They can be fixed changing the pre/postshift parameters)

 

[ValerBOSS]

Albeit with some trouble.

It isnt a problem! Thx

 

[Harlef]

DL Link is broken, could you pls upload it again? 

 

[Swyter]

DL Link is broken, could you pls upload it again? 

Look back.

Swyter, could you reupload the 1.4.1 version please? There is no folder on the mediafire.

The upload was in MBrepository, which works flawlessly. Here's the direct link:

http://www.mbrepository.com/download.php?id=1503&f=MBFCv1.4.zip

It's in the first post, but, as you probably noticed, the images are broken, and so the download button.
Have fun!

 

[Harlef]

aaah thx