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Here is an interim update to the Carleton 24pt font, discussed in https://forums.thedarkmod.com/index.php?/topic/23109-improvements-to-carleton-24pt-font/, which I ask people to consider for inclusion in 2.14. It's sole purpose is to greatly improve rendering of existing non-ASCII Carleton 24pt characters, e.g., seen in the main menu, while maintaining acceptable rendering of ASCII characters. Here are links to 3 files: 1) carleton_24.xcf [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1yuZ4yMm5ILfPSXBjWidkH3hiTAIGO-pO/view?usp=sharing] This GIMP 2.10 project file should be considered the source asset for the dds files. Besides 2 layers ("0" and "1") from which the DDS files were exported, there is a black background layer and two layers imported from datBounds with the current DAT boundaries. It is not required to have this present in the game install. 2) carleton_0_24.dds [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1InQnUQYymBXKBadmhPM2I96dshw--NK6/view?usp=sharing] 3) carleton_1_24.dds [https://drive.google.com/file/d/1MpAJfuvUF1jA5Ba68D6vF00m5YmyarZj/view?usp=sharing]. Files (2) & (3) are intended to replace files of the same name in these locations (in a beta core update within ...\tdm_fonts01.pk4\dds\fonts): ...\english\carleton\ ...\english\carleton_bold\ (or for testing purposes, as overrides in ...<DarkMod>\fms\testCarleton24pt\dds\fonts\...) The following DDS files should NOT be changed in this interim update: ...\english\carleton\<12pt & 48pt files> ...\english\carleton_condensed\* ...\english\carleton_glow\* ...\russian\<any carleton> This update is compatible with the 2 existing carleton_glow 24pt DDS files. Also, no DAT files should be changed; this update is compatible with the existing ...\tdm_fonts01.pk4\fonts\fontimage_24.dat file. This update is called interim because it does not address the 20-odd non-ASCII characters that are fully missing or missing accents, for which the TDM 2.15 timeframe is needed. It does not affect the limited number of carleton_condensed 24pt strings seen in the main menu, which will still exhibit ugly non-ASCII characters. (A separate proposal 6687 addresses that.) It is perhaps surprising that carleton and carleton_bold DDS files are the same, but that's how it has been for a while (e.g., in TDM 2.13) for 24pt size, although not for 12pt & 48pt. Yeah, weird, and perhaps reflecting that bold in this size is little used. |
- Anonymous
