Do we need a relative font tgi-driver also?

[+karri]

The Lynx font is currently 8 by 8 monospace. For RGP's with more text a better font might be good.

 

Any comments on his one?

 

[GadgetUK]

I think it would be really usefull, anything that can be added like that provides flexibility and speeds up development!

[obschan]

I have never been keen of the 8*8 monospaced, proportional will look way better.

[LX.NET]

Is there a possibility to add resource of some sort that allows a dev to create and link his own font file and indicate the resolution (if necessary)? That way we di not have to create our own tgi if we want a different font.

[Shawn Jefferson]

A custom lynx library would be great. TGI is a cross platform library, not well suited to hardcore game development (IMO).

[+karri]

I pushed my first relative font into bitbucket https://bitbucket.org/karri/haiku

 

Here is a small screenshot of it.

 

 

You only need the file haiku.s from the repository to use it.

[+karri]

I played around with fonts a little more. Here is an Atari style font https://bitbucket.org/karri/atari

 

And a screenshot:

 

 

For this you can grab the file atari.s from the repository. The call is tgi_atarixy(int x, int y, char *msg)

[GadgetUK]

Awesome stuff!!! Merry XMAS =) Will check this out ove the next few days. Recovering from a terrible virus atm =/

[+karri]

I just committed an Arial font into https://bitbucket.org/karri/arial

 

It is prettier but uses more pixels.

 

 

As usually you just need arial.s from the repository to use it.

 

As the size of characters are no longer multiples of 8 you cannot use color index 0 for printing characters as you can with the standard font.

 

So just use tgi_color(COLOR_DARKBROWN) to get the results shown here.

Edited December 26, 2012 by karri

[LX.NET]

Very useful as always. I think it is very valuable to have just a single .s file for resources. Can your sp65.exe tool also works with .bmp files? Are pcx and bmp significantly different?

I have also created a new font with a second one on the way, but it is using the "old way" with the sprpck.exe tool. I'll refactor it using your new tool and also create .s files. I'll ask the maker of the fonts if it is OK to upload them.

 

BTW, there is no tgi_getbgcolor function, but that might be a nice addition to the lynx lib.

Edited January 3, 2013 by LX.NET

[LX.NET]

As the size of characters are no longer multiples of 8 you cannot use color index 0 for printing characters as you can with the standard font.

 

So just use tgi_color(COLOR_DARKBROWN) to get the results shown here.

Curious to hear and understand why this is the case? You are using literal 1-bit pixel data. How does the multiples of 8 relate to the color index 0?

[+karri]

The literal pixels will always paint the background for every pixel until the end of the byte. If the background is not transparent you end up having a lot of strange areas painted to the right of the character.