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sadron

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Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« on: August 20, 2012, 05:06:00 pm »
As shown here:
http://i21.photobucket.com/albums/b282/sadron/blankout.png
Anyone able to tell me why it does that in these tilesets?
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #1 on: August 20, 2012, 05:08:57 pm »
I don't know why.

But what causes it is turning on the TrueType font option (so you can mess up the letter tiles without messing up readable text). In that screen, you're not seeing any actual tiles (except maybe the solid-colour ones).
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #2 on: August 20, 2012, 05:12:48 pm »
So how do I turn it off so the game stops doing that?
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #3 on: August 20, 2012, 05:16:41 pm »
Quote from: sadron on August 20, 2012, 05:12:48 pm
So how do I turn it off so the game stops doing that?
In init.txt, you could find where it says something like [TRUETYPE_ENABLED:YES] and change it to NO, but then you'd probably get fun stuff like every letter X turning into a little staircase which is probably worse. It's up to you.
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #4 on: August 20, 2012, 05:51:28 pm »
F12 is an ingame hotkey for toggling truetype on and off.
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #5 on: August 20, 2012, 07:16:19 pm »
Just get used to hitting F12 to toggle TrueType mode on/off as needed.

(The core issue is that DF doesn't properly calculate how much screen space the TrueType text is going to take up.)
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Re: Why do the letters blank out in graphical tilesets?
« Reply #6 on: August 20, 2012, 10:20:16 pm »
Or press F10 compulsively.  It (temporarily) fixes the blanking issue with truetype fonts.
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