Path: chuka.playstation.co.uk!news From: "Rikki Prince" Newsgroups: scee.yaroze.programming.2d_graphics Subject: Re: User defined fonts Date: Sat, 19 Jun 1999 20:23:06 +0100 Organization: PlayStation Net Yaroze (SCEE) Lines: 40 Message-ID: <7kgqnp$4fj25@chuka.playstation.co.uk> References: <7kgohf$4fj24@chuka.playstation.co.uk> NNTP-Posting-Host: th-gt141-099.pool.dircon.co.uk X-Priority: 3 X-MSMail-Priority: Normal X-Newsreader: Microsoft Outlook Express 5.00.2014.211 X-MimeOLE: Produced By Microsoft MimeOLE V5.00.2014.211 Alright Eddy! Well, what you suggested is the commonest way I've heard of doing fonts, which is to have one big tim with your font characters in, and write a function which takes a string, and a position, and prints the string, by changing the .u and .v for each letter. Also, you could have a lookup table of character widths, so you can make the font proportional. The only other way I've heard of was to use MoveImage for each letter, but I didn't quite understand the description. You really want to look up the 'how made his own font ?' message posted by MAGNIER Francis on 05/08/98, at 09:39, I believe. It was in this newsgroup, and if you cannot find it because Outlook Express deleted loadsa stuff (all your 'read' messages), then right click on the newsgroup name in the left hand column, choose properties, go to the Local File tab, and choose reset. Then reselect the newsgroup, and it will download 300 message headers. If its not in these 300, go to Tools, and select Get next 300 headers. I hope that sorts it out for you. Rikki Ed Fear wrote in message news:7kgohf$4fj24@chuka.playstation.co.uk... > I know this has popped up before, but it seems to have been deleted by > Outlook... anyway... how the jeeves do I make my own font to use in my > game? I had an idea of creating a sprite for every character printed and > just changing the u and v values of one big sprite but this is unwieldy and > silly. How do you do it? I think I remember Rad posting some code from one > of his projects, but it didn't help. Can any of you? Please? > > Thanks in advance, > > Ed :) > > P.S Sorry for bringing up this topic YET AGAIN... bloody outlook... it's > changed now though :) > >