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Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« on: April 13, 2012, 01:08:35 pm »

This is kind of an annoyance to me.

On the one hand, I like having a nice tileset to use to make everything visibly clearer (JollyBastion is the best!) but on the other hand, I also like my text to be easy to read.

Now, most letters and symbols are not changed, but there are at least 2 that make all text look funky as hell: periods and exclamation points.

Because of what these symbols are used for in the game itself, tilesets change them to look like those objects (rocks and whatever the heck the ! is used for). So instead of, "Blah blah blah..." I get "blah blah blah ███"

It makes reading a lot of text, like in a large battle, difficult to read clearly.

So what I am wondering is if there is a way to make it so that everything that is purely text to show in a different character set than the tileset used for game play. IE, instead of text simply being an image, it's actually text.
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2012, 01:42:59 pm »

Yep!  Go to your init file and look for the section on "TrueType Fonts".

It's slightly glitchy in that one screen in particular doesn't use it, but for the most part it does exactly what you want.
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2012, 04:57:52 pm »

All you have to do is press "F12": It toggles TrueType on and off.
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2012, 09:17:32 pm »

It didn't seem to work at all O.o
« Last Edit: April 13, 2012, 09:25:15 pm by TheCoolSideofthePIllow »
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #4 on: April 14, 2012, 09:17:53 am »

You need to edit init.txt and change the minial size for truetype down to whatever you're using. so if you have a 8x12 tileset, you need to change the truetype value to 8
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #5 on: April 14, 2012, 06:44:29 pm »

So... Instead of [TRUETYPE:YES] I would put [TRUETYPE:9] for my 9x12 tileset?
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Re: Real Fonts over Graphics/ASCII?
« Reply #6 on: April 14, 2012, 11:20:05 pm »

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« Last Edit: May 18, 2016, 02:58:37 pm by Taffer »
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