Doom Font generator problem

[ScoopJohn]

Hi guys, i'm using Spidey's ZDoom Font Generator/DoomCrap and i made a font in paint.net.

However, when i go to "create lump from image" and do the settings fine, the file doesn't come out, how come?

[ScoopJohn]

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[wildweasel]

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Please don't do this. This thread has existed for only one day. If I might quote the rules:

Patience is a virtue! If nobody's replied to your project thread within half an hour, don't just make another post and complain about how slow we are. Generally you'll want to wait a week (or until your thread drops off the first page) to bump it, if it's something important. Not everybody lives on the forums, and ZDoom isn't nearly as fast-paced as other message boards - it could take upwards of a couple days before anybody notices your thread, so count on waiting a while.

[Kappes Buur]

I copied your font image, made sure it was in PCX format and ran it through Spidey's ZDoom Font Generator (version doomfontgen-0.2.7)
as Tools > Create font lump from image and got this with GZDoom set to 800 x 600

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Too small.
Then I resized your font image to 250% in XnView and ran it through the Font Generator again

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to create the lump and got this

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Your font on top, the lower font for comparison.

[ScoopJohn]

I didn't notice there was cloggy looking details on my font. >_<

[YukiHerz]

That probably came from the 250% upscaling Kappes Buur did, if you look at the first screenshot with the original size you wont see the artifacts, follow his steps but resize only to a solid 200% or 300% to keep a correct pixel ratio and the artifacts shouldn't happen.

[ScoopJohn]

That probably came from the 250% upscaling Kappes Buur did, if you look at the first screenshot with the original size you wont see the artifacts, follow his steps but resize only to a solid 200% or 300% to keep a correct pixel ratio and the artifacts shouldn't happen.

I retried, this time i exported it to PCX in paint.net via a PCX plugin, i still get the error >_<

[Kappes Buur]

When you enlarge the view of your original image in, for example XnView, then you will see artifacts surrounding each letter.

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Of course then, by increasing the image size by whatever percentage, these artifacts will be more pronounced.

[MaxED]

That's only because you've resized it incorrectly (you'll want to use clean scaling (200%, 300% etc.) and don't use any kind of interpolation)...

resized.png (1.36 KiB) Viewed 2232 times

[Kappes Buur]

@MaxED

• What program did you use which let's you do such a nice job at clean scaling?

Anyways, I tried my luck with Gimp 2.8 and made the font image really big.
Gimp did a nice job in scaling the image size without noticable artifacts.

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I should have used it right from the start

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[MaxED]

I guess any relatively modern image viewer will do, but I've used IrfanView...

[ScoopJohn]

Well i just don't know how i can really do a lump from a image, i used the PCX format for the input file and it doesn't work.
I also tried to run the font generator in admin mode but it can't let me start.

[Jimmy]

You need [wiki]ImageTool[/wiki]. (Download is on that page.)

CONFONTs need to be 256-color grayscale, or they won't translate properly in-game. I downloaded your font (saved it as "scoopfont"), saved it as a PCX and set it to grayscale with Paint Shop Pro, and ran it through ImageTool using this command line. It worked.

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imagetool.exe confont scoopfont.pcx scoopfont.lmp

I put the outputted scoopfont.lmp into a WAD with SLADE3 and renamed it to "CONFONT". It showed in-game.



Download WAD

There are unfortunately a few artifacts present (though not nearly as many as Kappes Burr's method of resizing created, which looking at made the pixelphile in me cringe into a singularity). These artifacts should be easy to clean up, though, if you have a decent color-replacement tool (Paint Shop Pro does), though I can clean this up in a jiffy. EDIT: Just noticed this is caused by the characters being one pixel too far to the right, the shadows of left-hand characters are showing up. A super-easy fix, though.

I also recommend that you use the standard graphics present at the top of the original CONFONT (in zdoom.pk3), so the horizontal bars, option cursor and sliders still display (the latter two are basically vital for options menus to work properly). I can also fix that for you if you want.

EDIT: I fixed it up for you!



The above image is grayscale, except full black (index 0 - or 0,0,0 in RGB) is cyan, just for visibility purposes. I edited the color palette with PSP.

It works well in-game.



Download fixed WAD

My fixes include:

• Adding standard CONFONT graphics to the top of the image so console and options menu all work as intended.
• Shifting all characters one pixel to the left, and drawing new shadows for the very right-hand characters. Shadows show properly now.
• Altering the lower-case M and W so they don't just appear as solid squares.
• Altering the upper- and lower-case Gs to differentiate them from 6s.

Hope this helps you, ScoopJohn!

[Kappes Buur]

Well i just don't know how i can really do a lump from a image, i used the PCX format for the input file and it doesn't work.
I also tried to run the font generator in admin mode but it can't let me start.

At what point does the process fall apart for you?
Do you get some sort of error message?

[AFADoomer]

If you're running Windows 8 or 10, it's probably permissions. I run the font generator from an elevated command prompt with no problems, but get the same issue as described when running in user context.

I haven't bothered figuring out what permissions are wrong because I don't use the tool that often.