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Mobotium

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Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« on: August 11, 2011, 09:07:14 am »

So, a friend of mine and myself have been playing df through dfterm for a while now. However, the fonts included withing putty, as well as all other fonts we found scatred across the net, were either non square or had certain characters missing. Im posting to see  if anyone has, or knows about, a square font wich works ok with dfterm.
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Re: Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« Reply #1 on: August 11, 2011, 02:06:38 pm »

I have no idea about DFTerm, but there's a default square tileset in the game already.

Go to init.txt. Find the line that looks like this:

[FONT: curses_800x600.png]

...and replace it with this:

[FONT: curses_square_16x16.png]

A few icons look a bit different, but I find it to be better generally.
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Re: Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« Reply #2 on: August 11, 2011, 02:32:26 pm »

What Tharwen said would work, because DFterm can transmit the tiles from the game. Because of this, a square tileset would also work; just not a graphics set (I think).
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Re: Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« Reply #3 on: August 11, 2011, 03:45:15 pm »

Changing these options is useless in this case because what dfterm does is convert text information into ascii using a font, wich is comes from putty. As such, changing the tileset in the game itself is useless because all thats transmited to dfterm is the tile information, not the graphics of the tile. The information is converted in the spectator's (aka, not the host's) computer, using a font directed from putty.

So, unless someone knows how to use a png as a font, using the curses display is a no-go.
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Re: Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« Reply #4 on: August 11, 2011, 03:52:21 pm »

Um, actualy, nevermind. Seems there was someon who mad one for dfterm and I just didnt see  :-X

Thanks anyway.
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Re: Searching for a square font to use with dfterm
« Reply #5 on: August 12, 2011, 01:24:24 pm »

Not only can you use statues, you can decorate statues before you build them for maximum art density. 
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