BMF Bitmap font support

[Big-Boss]

I am sure one or two people might be aware of this site: http://bmf.wz.cz/

It includes the technical stuff related to the BMF font and is an excellent bitmap font resource. All fonts have have a .bmf font download. It would be pretty cool to see ZDooM use something beyond the standard DooM font.

[Jimmy]

I would love this as a feature. Though I don't know if it would be easy/possible to implement.

[randi]

It looks simple enough to do, but not until after the next release.

[Jimmy]

Ah, great news, randy.

[Tormentor667]

I am sure one or two people might be aware of this site: http://bmf.wz.cz/

It includes the technical stuff related to the BMF font and is an excellent bitmap font resource. All fonts have have a .bmf font download. It would be pretty cool to see ZDooM use something beyond the standard DooM font.

Best suggestion since ages, the resource rocks

[Big-Boss]

Yeah, I figured it might be worth suggesting considering the sheer number of font's available (approx. 794). It would take away the countless hours required to create a new font char by char in the graphics programme de choix and implementing it into FONTDEFS.

[Xim]

This sounds like an awesome idea. I'm sure tons of mods are going to (ab)use this.

[Big-Boss]

True, but after almost 17 years of staring at the DooM font, it'd be nice to see something else lol

[Xim]

Indeed it would but. My (ab)use comment was mainly a joke. I can tell we're gonna get new fonts popping up in nearly every ZDoom WAD from now on, not that it's a bad thing.

[The_Funktasm]

They look very DOS. I kind of like that.


You can tell me that that with some 16bit color mountains and a castle wouldn't pass for a title screen in 1993.

[Big-Boss]

Ja I think most are from DOS and pre-1999 console games, which is epic.

[Jimmy]

Tyrian, Descent, Jazz Jackrabbit... the list goes on.

[Ethril]

Tyrian, Descent, Jazz Jackrabbit... the list goes on.

Oof, three-hit nostalgia combo.

Be right back, reminiscing.

[TheDarkArchon]

You can tell me that that with some 16bit color mountains and a castle wouldn't pass for a title screen in 1993.

It won't: Most games in 1993 didn't have 16-bit colour since the then standard VGA frame buffers only had 640k memory, hence why Doom was originally in 320x200x8.

[The_Funktasm]

You can tell me that that with some 16bit color mountains and a castle wouldn't pass for a title screen in 1993.

It won't: Most games in 1993 didn't have 16-bit colour since the then standard VGA frame buffers only had 640k memory, hence why Doom was originally in 320x200x8.