Fonts

[Bradley]

Fonts

I'ny chance that the UO fonts will be accessable through the SDK in the future?

 

[[Shaman]]

kinda curious about that too yes.. and if not, is there any way you can?

 

[Bradley]

Well, source code to the SDK has been released now. So I guess that means we get a chance to do it if we really need fonts.

 

[[Shaman]]

yep the thing is... i do my stuff in vb.net (only a starter with c#)... and since the dll is in c#... i can make nice scripts for myself, but if i can get an advantage of the source i'd like to share em with at least krioss so he can put it in for others if he wants to...

 

[Kamron]

when I download the SDK.. the source doesnt come with it. :\

 

[Bradley]

when I download the SDK.. the source doesnt come with it. :\

It's a seperate file in the download section.
http://www.runuo.com/downloads/get_file.php?file=21

 

[[Shaman]]

krioss you got any slight chance of getting it into the sdk or do you want us to stop being lazy and try to figgure it out for ourselves?

 

[krrios]

I don't forsee any time for me to implement it, so..

 

[Bradley]

I found what looks like some good documentation on fonts.mul. I'll give it a crack and see what falls out, doesn't look too hard.

Krrios, if I get it working would you be willing to add the code to the "official" sdk?

 

hrm ok, hopefully if i find out how i can change my vb programming to c#... if so you'll be the first that will be notified

 

[[Shaman]]

obviously that was me.. forgot to login

btw bradly you mind sharing.. 2 people can find out things faster than 1

 

[Bradley]

http://www.wpdev.org/docs/formats/vbasic/fonts.html is the documentation i found. if you actually look at the "contact" link at the bottom it seems to have been written by krrios

This also looks usefull.
http://arachnide.sourceforge.net/formats/fonts/

If I end up getting it to work it's going to be in VB.NET, someone will have to translate to c# and do some optimizing since I'm not really good at that part.

 

[Bradley]

It's a start, but as you can see I'm doing something wrong.....

 

[[Shaman]]

heh they found out and deleted the link (first link that is)

 

[Bradley]

heh they found out and deleted the link (first link that is)

Damn, I was using that. Ohh well, there is always google's page chache.

 

[Bradley]

Woohoo! I have successfully managed to decode the fonts. I will do what optimizing I can. then will merge my changes with the source code for the SDK, and post it back to the boards.

 

[Bradley]

Until I can get the Fonts merged into the SDK I have made a DLL available that will do it. It can be downlaoded from here http://tkpups.com/Bradley/UOFont.dll

*EDIT*
UOFont.dll requires the UOSDK.
It uses a rather unoptimized routine for returning a charactor image, but once the image is generated it is cached. So it's only slow the first time a specific charactor is displayed in a Font, after that it's pulled from the cache and should be just about as fast as possable.

 

[Bradley]

UOFont.dll has been updated with unicode font support now. Download it from the same URL. If you downloaded it before the post time of this message you got the version without unicode support.

 

[[Shaman]]

if ye need help optimising, lemme know 8)

gonna test it right away

 

[[Shaman]]

doh dubble post :?