Smallfont help from PNG?

[SuperAble]

Hi, been planning a mod that uses the in-game font style from the Sega CD version of The Terminator that I've extracted,but the only thing is which program should I use to turn this image into a lmp that can be use as either a BIGFONT or SMALLFONT?
Looking through the DoomCrap bundle and looked at the font generator and batch image tool but not sure of these are the right programs to do so. If anyone would like to help me out, it would be a pleasure.

[Graf Zahl]

With the new font setup you do not really need to convert it to a binary font file. Just create a directory fonts/SmallFont inside the PK3 and put each character in there with a 4 digit name matching each character's ASCII value in Hex.

If you only need to use it with a fixed pitch like in your image it will become even easier because you can use that image as-is with a little added setup.

[SuperAble]

With the new font setup you do not really need to convert it to a binary font file. Just create a directory fonts/SmallFont inside the PK3 and put each character in there with a 4 digit name matching each character's ASCII value in Hex.

If you only need to use it with a fixed pitch like in your image it will become even easier because you can use that image as-is with a little added setup.

So, make a folder named Fonts, then make a subfolder named SMALLFONT, then import each character with the file names corresponding to a letter/number/symbol i.e. a png of "A" should be A.png, etc...?

[Graf Zahl]

No. You need the numeric code for each character in hexadecimal. A is 0041.png, for example, Z is 005A.png. You'll find the numbers when googling for "ASCII".

[SuperAble]

No. You need the numeric code for each character in hexadecimal. A is 0041.png, for example, Z is 005A.png. You'll find the numbers when googling for "ASCII".

Now what about spacing?

[Talon1024]

If you make a file named "font.inf" in the same folder where your font character PNGs are, you can specify spacing, kerning, etc in that file.

To make spaces 4 pixels wide, put this in your font.inf:

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SpaceWidth 4

Other directives you can add to this file include:

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Kerning <int> // Space between each character

Scale <decimal>[, <decimal>] // Scale (size factor) for each font character

FontHeight <int> // How tall should lines be

CellSize <int>, <int> // Width and Height for each character. MONOSPACE FONTS ONLY!

TranslationType console // I have no idea what exactly this directive does
OR
TranslationType standard // default

[SuperAble]

I'm more into wanting to know on how to make a font lmp similar to ones seen in the PSXDoom TC where it's like a row of letter/character graphics:

FontsSlade.PNG

[Enjay]

Originally they were done with imagetool.

[SuperAble]

Originally they were done with imagetool.

Is there a certain character layout I have to use?

[Enjay]

The text file inside the zip explains the layout. The only thing that (from memory) that it is silent about is the fact that a double-width line between characters means "the glyph is blank" and a blank character is inserted at that point. So watch for double width frames around some of the characters.

I think, for example, there is a double line after the ? in bigfont.pcx meaning that the space for the next character (I think it's @) is accounted for even though there is no graphic for it.

[edit] There's another one between % and ' and the missing character in this case is &. [/edit]

[SuperAble]

problem solved.

[Kappes Buur]

If you want to use BHS's font generator, then maybe this tutorial will help.

[SuperAble]

If you want to use BHS's font generator, then maybe this tutorial will help.

Followed their steps, yet I'm not getting the .lmp file. Just only a brief second of the cmd prompt popping up and closes twice with no finalized product whatsoever.

[Kappes Buur]

I couldn't make the font work from your image file either, so I downloaded a font, Gamer.ttf, which is pretty close, and ran it through BHS's FG, following the above tutorial,

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