How to change font spacing in scoreboard

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How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby antimouse » 05 Apr 2014, 00:55

Hello all,

I was playing with scoreboards and added a new font.
I correctly copied the HugeChars shader, as instructed by Manutoo in Rounders topic, put my own font name, changed the map path. The font loads correctly, but it displays with huge spaces between characters. Is this a problem with the font file or with something in my code? I used the Bitmap Font Builder recommended by HeinrichVonWestphalen.

The code is this:

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Font   LilF   Arial 11 14 0xFFB0AFAA 0 Circle Center Center Shadow0


Here is the screenshot:

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Thanks in advance!
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby manutoo » 05 Apr 2014, 03:30

Hello,

check your alpha channel is pure black ( = 0 ) and pure white ( = 255), with only a few anti-aliased pixels between the 2 extremes.
ie: the game engine needs the 0's to determine the size of each character.
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby antimouse » 05 Apr 2014, 05:11

I just checked and the alphas were 255 for the white characters and 1 (instead of 0) for the background.
I applied thresholding in the alpha channel through GIMP (since my Photoshop doesn't seem to read TGA files), made all 1's as 0's, but it didn't solve the problem. I suspect GIMP is not saving the file as 32-bit TGA. The file was 1MB and it saved as less than 100k. Do you know another software to deal with TGA?

EDIT: Well, I've managed to open it in Photoshop and saved the bitmap properly, 32-bit, with 0% or 100% alpha. The problem with scoreboards persists :(
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby Rounders » 05 Apr 2014, 15:00

antimouse wrote:I just checked and the alphas were 255 for the white characters and 1 (instead of 0) for the background.
I applied thresholding in the alpha channel through GIMP (since my Photoshop doesn't seem to read TGA files), made all 1's as 0's, but it didn't solve the problem. I suspect GIMP is not saving the file as 32-bit TGA. The file was 1MB and it saved as less than 100k. Do you know another software to deal with TGA?

EDIT: Well, I've managed to open it in Photoshop and saved the bitmap properly, 32-bit, with 0% or 100% alpha. The problem with scoreboards persists :(


Try this software antimouse http://www.codehead.co.uk/cbfg/
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby antimouse » 05 Apr 2014, 16:08

Thank you very much Rounders! :D
Now it seems to work. I compared this file with the other I had generated before, and the difference is that it zeroes the entire RGBA channel. The previous file had 0 alpha, but full 255 RGB. Maybe that was the problem, I had understood from Manu's answer that only alpha mattered.
Anyway, the software you recommended is way better than the other. So thanks! :)
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby manutoo » 06 Apr 2014, 03:52

antimouse,
doh, sorry, yup I thought it was only the Alpha channel, but I just looked HugeChars and it's actually the RGB channel that matters ! ;)
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Re: How to change font spacing in scoreboard

Postby antimouse » 06 Apr 2014, 14:06

No problem, Manu ;)
And thanks also for your attention, I forgot to thank you in the last post :D
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