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[Random832]

I had an idea for a program that could generate a tileset of any size from any font (including non-fixed-width - it would be trivial to center the characters in the box), with or without antialiasing. Would anyone find such a thing useful?

(I'll probably end up writing at least part of the functionality anyway, there are some things I want to do with antialiasing on tilesets i plan on posting)

[DennyTom]

You should do this - making your own tileset is not that hard, but every help is welcomed.

[Sowelu]

About that non-fixed-width thing.  What about characters that are supposed to take up the whole tile...like walls?  Do you still center them, or stretch them?

[Glaughdram]

I, for one, would find such a utility very useful.

[Random832]

About that non-fixed-width thing.  What about characters that are supposed to take up the whole tile...like walls?  Do you still center them, or stretch them?

My plan is to have different font/offset/size parameters for the line drawing characters and trust the users to provide values that extend past the edge of the box. (I'm also going to have box characters - i.e. rough walls - as a special case and just draw them rather than using the characters from the font)

[SolarShado]

hmmm... if this were availvable, i just might make my own set... sounds cool

[Random832]

hmmm... if this were availvable, i just might make my own set... sounds cool

I've got a first version that I'm happy with, though it's still got some rough edges - anyone know where i can upload it? And anyone know how to find out if a font is missing a character in .NET? Right now it just falls back to some other font I can't identify.

[SolarShado]

there's the DF File Depot: http://dffd.wimbli.com/, can't help with .NET programming tho

[Tormy]

Sounds interesting, I would use it..at least until Toady separates txt/gfx, because I will work on a high quality graphical mod after that point. 

[worldspawn]

Sounds interesting, I would use it..at least until Toady separates txt/gfx, because I will work on a high quality graphical mod after that point. 

Same here, I plan to use big tiles and everything as well.

[Tormy]

Sounds interesting, I would use it..at least until Toady separates txt/gfx, because I will work on a high quality graphical mod after that point. 

Same here, I plan to use big tiles and everything as well.

Yeah, I am very good with Photoshop thankfully..and I plan to make a 32x32 tileset, but not until txt/gfx is separated, I don't like the "half assed" gfx/txt presenation, so until that point, I am playing in ASCII mode. 

[Random832]

http://dffd.wimbli.com/file.php?id=817

I'd like to note that I doubt the wiki or the DFFD would appreciate being flooded with hundreds of mediocre tileset variations, so try to keep it reasonable everyone 

Release notes:

First version. Requires .NET Framework 2.0. This version doesn't do separate linedraw character font/offset settings, doesn't do horizontal stretching of fonts, and doesn't have any control over what fallback font is used for characters that are missing from the font. (Also doesn't have any features I haven't thought of yet)

[Savok]

Random832: You might not've noticed; can be hard to sometimes. I sent you a private message related to this thread; would you please answer?

[Random832]

Uploaded new version.

Release notes: This adds a tool requested by Savok, which can remove lines from between rows/columns and stuff around the edges, and can convert from grayscale to transparency (any pure gray, including black, will become white transparent proportional to its brightness - to keep a grayscale pixel solid, set one of the red/green/blue values to be slightly different from the others)

Slight changes to the layout on the font-based generation tool.

[Random832]

Another version, same page as before. Added a separate alpha channel tool for converting to transparent PNG; Mode A is as described above (and will work for bitmaps generated from the font-based tileset generator with antialias settings other than cleartype), Mode B treats magenta as transparent (only works with blends between a pure gray and magenta, i.e. (R = B) > G; all other colors will be treated as solid)

Here's a palette you can use - a 10x8 image with a 45-color palette containing 12-step scales between black/white, black/magenta, and white/magenta, and 7-step scales between #c0c0c0/magenta and #808080/magenta.
http://img214.imageshack.us/img214/4554/palettesj8.png

Also added support for stretching fonts horizontally - Not guaranteed that this will always work with the proportional font support code.