[Won't change] mapinfo map name image generation bug

[SargeBaldy]

here's one i noticed more than a year ago that has irritated me greatly but i kept forgetting to mention. zdoom generates images for map names wrong. as someone who used to make these images by hand, i remember that any character following another overlaps one square. zdoom does not do this when it automatically generates image names from a mapinfo lump.



the top image is how 'hangar' is supposed to be displayed, the bottom is how it would be displayed from a mapinfo lump.

[Graf Zahl]

That happens when text output is generated by a font. In that case it's not that easy to get the space between characters right, especially if they overlap. It has to be done in a way that works for every character in every situation. So I think this won't be changed as it is truly pedantic.

[Hirogen2]

Not worth fighting. See, it's only you who noticed.

[Graf Zahl]

I noticed, too, but

a) it doesn't bother me

and

b) I know exactly why it is the way it is

so I never considered it worth mentioning it here. Certainly nothing that requires fixing.

[Enjay]

Yeah, this way you have a choice - make a graphic with the old overlap look, or generate a graphic with spaces (although, I never actually noticed there was a difference).

[randi]

zdoom generates images for map names wrong.

It doesn't generate an image at all. If one isn't present, it draws the name as regular text using the big font. ZDoom fonts don't carry any kerning information, so adjacent characters will never overlap, and I don't think this is significant enough to warrant adding that support.

[SargeBaldy]

back to doing them from scratch again i guess -_-

[Nanami]

Great, now he wants to redo all the ZooM level names with graphics just to fix the one pixel between each letter.

[Hirogen2]

Great, now he wants to redo all the ZooM level names with graphics just to fix the one pixel between each letter.

sounds stupid

[SargeBaldy]

not that i see why she cares.. the images only use up about 1k apiece (when PNGed) and i think i'm capable enough with mapinfo lumps that she doesn't need to set the map graphics names...

[Nanami]

I care because there's no need whatsoever to add these to the wad. It takes up more space for graphics, more space on the MAPINFO, and only fixes one pixel that only you will care about. 1K each? That's still 33K of redundant information... even 1 byte would be too much for me.

Just look at it this way. The problem you have is that it doesn't match the original text. What it says in Doom.exe is slightly different than what ZDoom says. Well... that doesn't matter for ZooM because there's no level called "Sithe Mountain" or "Fort Havoc" in Doom.exe, so I don't see why anyone is going to care about the spacing...

[Graf Zahl]

Somebody apparently does, as pointless as it is...


And yes, it does not only sound stupid, it is!

[Chilvence]

I have nothing to say.

THE SPACING IS UNIMPORTANT

*cough*

[Cyb]

sargebaldy want something stupid? I FIND THAT HARD TO BELIEVE

isn't Zoom a hub anyways? Does it actually use intermission screens? (I can't remember, I haven't played a beta in a while)

[Nanami]

No, it's not a hub. If I recall correctly, ENTER scripts only work the first time you enter the level, so a hub wouldn't be desirable.