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dreambottle / R11-psp-english

Localization of the mystery novel Remember11 on PSP
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Working with fonts #1

Closed tinenmi closed 8 years ago

tinenmi commented 8 years ago

I want to change fonts to reduce printed text size. It's also can be helped for localizations. I've a font working tool for desktop version of Remember11, but file formats doesn't match. Please, write font change tools for PSP and I'll test text out in entire game.

dreambottle commented 8 years ago

Hi and thanks for interest in this project!

I did some research on how to properly extract the fonts and started writing a script to extract it to PNG, but it's unfinished yet. Hopefully I will have some time to work on it in a few weeks.

Note, it is undesirable to change the font height because the same font is used everywhere in the game and it may become ugly or unreadable in some places.

Besides, I also found out that the line height in the text boxes was hardcoded into the game and changing the font height does not automatically make more lines fit into the text box.

tinenmi commented 8 years ago

I know many people interesting in your project. I wlould reduce font height by 2 pixel to increase paddings. And width of some characters of my language can be reduced by half.

tinenmi commented 8 years ago

May I help you with coding?

dreambottle commented 8 years ago

I've recently pushed a script that repacks the font with the left and right borders of the glyphs reduced by 1px. This simple hack notably improves readability and increases the amount of glyphs per line to ~45.

The complete font extraction is under way.

tinenmi commented 8 years ago

Thanks. It's good news.

tinenmi commented 8 years ago

Thanks. But font extracting doesn't work anymore and during trowing error writes that pngMapsPath0 doesn't exist.

dreambottle commented 8 years ago

@tinenmi Fixed in 9e00cfc. You were probably trying to repack the font. Note that the input PNG files must be greyscale with the bitdepth of 2 (only 4 shades of grey available)

dreambottle commented 8 years ago

Closing, as the functionality has been implemented

staciaa123 commented 4 months ago

I want to change fonts to reduce printed text size. It's also can be helped for localizations. I've a font working tool for desktop version of Remember11, but file formats doesn't match. Please, write font change tools for PSP and I'll test text out in entire game.

May I ask how you changed the font of PC version?