Ability to include fonts?

Hi,

Is there a feature where we can include fonts in our apps? Or be able to tell the string to get the font from the local directory of the app?

Because installers that install fonts into the windows font dir are bad as only super users can do that. It also means your font will be used for anything they want.

Would be a good feature, and yet another that Construct has over MMF.

-Alex

How do you think this might best be achieved? Fonts being able to be put in to the resources bar?

I'm not sure what the resources bar is XD.

But i thought it might be good to have a file selector when choosing the font to use, then a button saying "use expression".

The expression would be "appdirectory+"/myfont.font" or whatever. Could be cool <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />. Although im sure theres many ways to do this.

How do you think this might best be achieved? Fonts being able to be put in to the resources bar?

I think that the putting them into resources bar is a good idea. Btw, it would be nice if the users could choose whether they want to save the resources externally or internally when building a project.

> How do you think this might best be achieved? Fonts being able to be put in to the resources bar?

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I think that the putting them into resources bar is a good idea. Btw, it would be nice if the users could choose whether they want to save the resources externally or internally when building a project.

Or specifically some recources perhaps. Like you can specify which recources are to be handled externally and internally etc. This way you could use an updater to update stuff more easily.

Yeah, it could be cool to deliberately store sprites externally once the game is built to an EXE. I'd love it if people could mod my games easily!!

It worked for halflife <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

It would be useful for development as well, since currently (I think) if you try to update the graphic of a sprite, everything you have put on it is simply thrown away. Disappointing.

Similar effect when you cut objects from one layer to another. It completely destroyed my code. :\ But! Lesson learned.

Yeah, it could be cool to deliberately store sprites externally once the game is built to an EXE. I'd love it if people could mod my games easily!!

It worked for halflife <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

Would be great.. so that we could add in our games not only a simple level editor, but also the capability to add own graphics and music! 100% moddable.. totally amazing!

I can see this being useful.. I agree they should be in a resource bar as that is the logical place. Ditto for allowing custom files/binaries <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

Tim

I'm sure everything could be modularized out as resource, including levels -- but that would probably end up making the frame editor a lot more generalized as a tile editor if you were gonna do that. As a solution, in MMF my approach was to re-impliment a tile loader from scratch to allow for user-created levels for my game. Many MMF games use that now, but it's not exactly the most easy thing to impliment.

It really depends on the sort of tile-based (or whatever) solution you end up making for your game, because in a lot of these cases I'd wonder why not just release the entire source file to the game if you don't want to impliment your own tile engine.....

Alternatively, we could also have a tile blitter extension on top of the current coordinate-based system which makes tile-based games a lot faster to implement these sort of levels made with dedicated external tile editors, or "in-game editing" of the tiles ala Sonic debug mode, but hey, if we're gonna do that why not also implement a text-blitter for graphical fonts too while we're at it, and then we wouldn't need to include vector font files in the first place XD

I like your guys ideas :V

Ashley, is this possible at all?

It's possible, yeah, no reason why not. It's at the end of a long todo list though.

Any way I can convince you to post your todo list? I'm curious to see what's on it <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile" />

I second that.

While we wait for builds it will be fun to see that, and the nightly build stuff etc.

Although of course Its probably better if we dont distract you from the actual program <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_biggrin.gif" alt=":D" title="Very Happy" />

I don't see why not. <img src="{SMILIES_PATH}/icon_smile.gif" alt=":)" title="Smile">