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Urist McDagger

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TrueType SDL fixes?
« on: February 07, 2012, 12:56:39 pm »
.. Kind of noobish question, but.. What exactly does that mean..?
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Re: TrueType SDL fixes?
« Reply #1 on: February 07, 2012, 01:06:21 pm »
One of the display modes for Dwarf Fortress is to utilize a TrueType Font instead of the graphical 'font' defaults (or a custom graphics set). However in the current version the TTF... doesn't work very well at all really.
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Re: TrueType SDL fixes?
« Reply #2 on: February 07, 2012, 01:22:41 pm »
At a minimum, these bug fixes.  That crash in particular has plagued the current version, so the fix will improve TrueType usability significantly.
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Re: TrueType SDL fixes?
« Reply #3 on: February 07, 2012, 02:15:42 pm »
Halle - freaking - leujah!

Separation of game text and game world tiles was needed as of like, three releases ago. If TrueType support becomes solid, we can all switch to TrueType and the tileset makers can worry about making tiles for the game world which don't also have to be recognizable upper and lower-case letters plus numbers and symbols.
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Re: TrueType SDL fixes?
« Reply #4 on: February 07, 2012, 05:02:33 pm »
Technically, seperation of text and world tiles did get put in the game a while ago. It just caused crashes all over the place when it was enabled. That's what these fixes fix.
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