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I need some font sets for my billboarding engine. I know I have the Quake TGA somewhere, but I really don’t like it that much for my engine. I’d prefer a thinner font set, plus possibly a couple different ones to use.

So, does anybody have any, or know where to find them? They’re just too tedious to make by hand.

Siwko

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There’s a font tutorial on nehe.gamedev.net.It comes with a complete font set in tga format.Have a look.

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Go to http://nehe.gamedev.net and download LMNOpc Bitmap Font Builder. it will let you create font sets for .tga or .bmp. its a great program.

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Yeah, when I found it I thought it was great but I can’t get the TGA’s to load they seem to be full of errors, sometimes the texture ends up white. Also I have a general problem with TGA in the the alpha channel is very strange- windows always insists that there is no transparency and my app wont make the transparent parts transparent when I use alpha test. Also if I click on properties with a TGA in windoze after 20 seconds explorer will crash.

Loads of other strange things happen with TGA fles on my PC !!!

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Wow… I didn’t know they had that.

I never had problems with TGA’s, but I prefer BMP files anyway. It’s just as easy to handle transparency with a 24-bit bitmap anyway. A little array flexing and you’re done.

Thanks all!

Siwko

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I guess its just me, but everytime I see an application using bmp files my mind says “bad code”.
I actually dunno why, but I prefer applications with some other image format.

Seeing an application with .TGA and .JPG files make my mind go “great code!”.

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Originally posted by Hull:
[b]I guess its just me, but everytime I see an application using bmp files my mind says “bad code”.
I actually dunno why, but I prefer applications with some other image format.

Seeing an application with .TGA and .JPG files make my mind go “great code!”.

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When I see an app using jpegs, my mind says “Waste of processing decompressing it and bad image quality.” When I see an app that uses TGA’s, my mind says “Old image format, old app.”

To each his own I guess.

BTW: the LMNOpc app doesn’t support antialiasing. Oh well… at least it does some font smoothing. Thanks again for the help!

Siwko

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Yeah! If you’re not using wavelet compression, you’re nothing, man. (If you’re using fractal compression then you’re still okay.)