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Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by EmaStergam » Sun Jul 01, 2012 10:12 am

Current status:
Beta test
Download link: http://hotfile.com/dl/161832077/904ee73 ... 2.zip.html

Tool will be posted to file center as soon as technical problem resolve, till then i'll reupload if needed.

Varsion 1.5
01-07-2012
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Hi all

Here is my first D2 tool. It was originally created in 2006 :D. And its went trough meny stages of developement. It was canceled 3 times till now and its rewriten from scratch 2 times :D. Also it wasnt in develop for 5 years :D. Unfortunatly it is UNDONE atm. All function i plan to put are there and it is finished 90%. It still has bugs and unhandeled exceptions. There is no help and tutorials. So this tool will stay as BETA for some time. In other hant it is tool that i used to create ALL d2 texts in game as well as in other tools and tutorials i made.

Few word about D2FontEditor
D2FontEditor will help you to menage and test your new font. It is created for my own needs and as such it has all options i need. I hope you will find it handy too.
Here is some test fonts as example from my mode. Pay attention to Font16.D2f . It has some elements for drawing border and some usefull icons. You will get idea when you see it :P.
Fonts: http://hotfile.com/dl/161835899/5ee66bd ... 2.zip.html
Note: This is unfinished-beta tool.
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General note about beta test
  • Test will be opened till Doomsday
  • Test is aimed to bug-hunt primarily
Testers needed:
  • 1 - General software user
    1 - Technical tester
General software user
  • Should use software, find bugs and propose features.
Technical tester
  • Should test program on different systems and configurations
Testers must
  • Have solid D2 moding knowledge,
    Senior moders from forum has adventage,
    Tester must spend at least 1h per day testing.
Communication
Communication will be only trough forum. I dont have much spare time atm and i cant replay quickly. My expecting is 2 per month :\. Yeah real life suck :P.

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If you interested in further developing of this software just cheer me. It can make miracle :P. Ofc if anyone can bring beer it would beyond miracle :P.
Dont forget to share your fonts with community :P.

Any other questions? Ask.

Link updated 01-07-2012

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by HarvestWombs » Sun Jul 01, 2012 9:10 pm

I think to maximize this programs potential you should be able to import fonts, instead of creating a new font bmp by scratch.

So far no bugs that i have run across.

Also it might be nice for some people to have a mirror download, i had to wait 30 minutes to download the fonts.
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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by Xaphan » Sun Jul 01, 2012 11:16 pm

Yes, importing the font (So the program make the image itself based of the font you give him) would just be the best and made font editing doable in like 5 minutes ^^

But still interresting right now :)

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by d1ck » Mon Jul 02, 2012 12:27 am

you can use a ttf -> bmp converter to generate a bitmap font

then load the bitmap font using this program and export it as a dc6

takes like 5 mins :P


though going from bmp to ttf = basically impossible -.- wasted an entire day trying to convert item desc font to a ttf or find a method in .net to use bitmap fonts

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by Xaphan » Mon Jul 02, 2012 1:59 am

Did not even know this exist !

Some search on google and I fond this :
BmFont

Will try that to see if it work :)

Edit :

This one is even better (can align characters at left wich is needed) and very easy to use.

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by Eimernase » Mon Jul 02, 2012 10:19 am

Realy nice tool, excelent work :bravo:

It prevents me now from manualy tbl-editing for custom fonts :)

Tested yesterday a bit with them and few new fonts and all looks good in game.
For now i've noticed just only one unhandeled exceptions (it didnt crash)...if i import a dc6, i cant after that import another dc6/bmp, need first change "new file".
But that isnt realy a problem, all others i have seen works good.

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by d1ck » Mon Jul 02, 2012 6:35 pm

please consider releasing the source, i want to use d2 fonts in external app like you did in your splash screen

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Re: Beta testers [ D2Fonter ]

Post by EmaStergam » Fri Jul 06, 2012 8:38 pm

Hi

Thanks to all for interesting in tool.
Be free to add alternated download links.
In first place program is aimed for font menaging only (moving, testing, custom font tbl entry ... ). Thats why there is no "advanced" ttf->dc6 conversion. I know there is lot application made for directX and OpenGL to do that and i cant mach with them. Especialy not with pro class like photoshop or something. All of them can make one big bmp with fonts. But how meny of them can make bmp->DC6 conversion :P ? Thats why D2Fonter exists. In some point i planed to add those "advanced" option but i give up. Too much work for nothing :\

Thanks on bug hunting. Ill check that rusty code, and oil it up :P

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