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No runes on walls
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 3:34 am
by Parallax
I don't know if this is a bug or a feature, but lowercase characters in the text exvar of wall texts are not displayed up close. I would very much like to be able to include runic graffiti in my dungeon.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 6:09 am
by Sophia
I think it's more of a lack-of-feature.
The font just doesn't include the runes, because they weren't in DM.
Here's a link to the image I'm using, in case you want to remedy this for yourself.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 11:40 am
by ian_scho
I thought... Hope that lowercase characters are used for runes?! a = LO rune symbol for example.... Ahhh I'm talking about the font set used for the scrolls.
Sophia pointed me to a utility for making fonts, I recall.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 9:02 pm
by Sophia
That was a tool for converting TTF fonts into PCX bitmaps that Allegro (and thus DSB) can use. In this case, nothing beyond a paint program is needed, because someone just needs to (EDIT) add some more boxes and put in the runes.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Wed Jan 06, 2010 10:03 pm
by Gambit37
You'll need to move your punctuation though, won't you? There are 24 runes.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:08 am
by Sophia
Oops. No, it goes in ASCII order (uppercase before lower), which I seem to have forgotten temporarily.
So you have to add some more boxes and put the runes in after.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:09 am
by Gambit37
Sophia wrote:some more boxes
That's not very precise for a programmer!
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 12:14 am
by Sophia
Ok, I had to check.
You (or whoever wants to do this) needs to add two more rows of 16, and start with LO in the second box on your first new row. The system font actually already depicts this, for whatever that's worth.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 3:50 pm
by Parallax
Alright then, it's done, I hope I have time to post it here tonight.
Edit: Also, what characters do the empty boxes correspond to, if you know? One of them must be 'space', but they can't all be.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Thu Jan 07, 2010 9:18 pm
by Sophia
Space is the very first (upper-left) box.
It goes in ASCII order starting at 32, so it goes: space, !, ", etc.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ASCII
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 3:19 am
by Parallax
And here it is, basically the original picture with some random pixels added. If someone with actual talent wants to touch it up and make it look like something, please be my guest.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 4:57 am
by Sophia
Parallax wrote:basically the original picture with some random pixels added
Oh whatever. They look nice.
Re: No runes on walls
Posted: Fri Jan 08, 2010 8:13 am
by ian_scho
Good job!