Tileset Question

[candidgamera]

I can view the font in the Window font viewer, but that just shows the basic characters.

[backwardsEric]

Sorry for getting your hopes up that it might work.

When I tried it (Windows 10 - didn't note which version; Angband 4.2.0), the font does load but the characters for the walls were nothing like it appeared in the SDL frontend on Linux. I don't know enough about the font files to know what has to be done differently in the font conversion so it works properly on Windows.

[candidgamera]

Sorry for getting your hopes up that it might work.

When I tried it (Windows 10 - didn't note which version; Angband 4.2.0), the font does load but the characters for the walls were nothing like it appeared in the SDL frontend on Linux. I don't know enough about the font files to know what has to be done differently in the font conversion so it works properly on Windows.

Yeah, the effort is appreciated, though!

[luneya]

From the Angband 2.9.6 code in main-ibm.c, ANGBAND.FNT has 8x16 bitmaps for 256 characters without any extra metadata. That's loaded and sent to the VGA adapter. I didn't see where MONSTERS.FNT was used in the source code, despite it being present in LIB/XTRA.

If ANGBAND.FNT is really just a bitmap without metadata, perhaps it's possible to trick a graphics program into loading it? That wouldn't give you a font, but it would give you something more convenient than a screenshot to import into Fontforge.

[Pete Mack]

@luneya--
It takes a lot of tricking. You'd need to load it as data then write it as a bmp.