Author Topic: Adding custom fonts from computer and changing the color and outlines of the tex  (Read 2009 times)

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It will be cool if we could change the font to one from our computer and also changing the color of the text and outlines, now that we can add text all over the place.
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It will be cool if we could change the font to one from our computer and also changing the color of the text and outlines, now that we can add text all over the place.
That's what I suggested 69420 times and it never got added
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Be patient! I've made suggestions in the past, and I've waited a very long time for some of them. And last I checked, there weren't even that many posts on the forum, Warrior. So I have no idea how you've asked for it that many times.

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Unfortunately, fonts need to be installed on a computer for them to work on the computer, and most fonts have copyright restrictions as well. All of PB's "fonts" are actually pre-rendered images of letters.

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Ahhh....wait, wha? Fonts are copyrighted!? Woah. That's...woah. That sounds awfully crazy to me. In my opinion. Well, then we'll just use custom pre-rendered letter image fonts!

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Ahhh....wait, wha? Fonts are copyrighted!? Woah. That's...woah. That sounds awfully crazy to me. In my opinion. Well, then we'll just use custom pre-rendered letter image fonts!
So you're trashing one of the most basic suggestions ever because you learned about a thing that is univerally obvious to everyone except you? Thats very pathetic of you because we need that and you know it yourself. TingThing just have to add more cc0 fonts and just disable custom fonts for explore. Thats all.
« Last Edit: July 12, 2020, 07:49:40 PM by Warrior555 »
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I wasn't trashing anything. I was simply shocked that they were copyrighted. And I said then we'll just enable the ability to do what TingThing did. I don't see what's so pathetic about that.

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Wait they're actually just images? Thats cool, letter spritesheets sounds hella more practical to me than font files since if we get this, we wouldn't even need to get options for text color and outline. Still, did you really expected that you could use Super Mario 256 in commercial projects?
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Exactly. Seriously, how is that considered "trashing" anything?

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Unfortunately, fonts need to be installed on a computer for them to work on the computer, and most fonts have copyright restrictions as well. All of PB's "fonts" are actually pre-rendered images of letters.
I think DG does something similar if I'm understanding correctly. Will you add in the near future
a custom fontmap system? Like tilesets but with all letters for a font.
Sorry because my English is not very good because I'm Spanish ;) :P