[ATTN: Tom/Headkaze] Font Rendering Problems

[DazzleHP]

Hey guys,

I've spent hours finding cool fonts for my theme (which is almost done ) but every font i like doesn't render correctly i've tried different styles & sizes but it doesn't sort it. Not sure what else i can do. I've tried all fonts in question in various editors and they are fine, the font viewer also displays them correctly but when in gameex i get strange artifacts. Is this a known problem? Am i gonna have to settle for a font which i'm not particularly keen on?

I must stress this is not happening on all fonts - out of around a hundred i tried, only a few are doing this - and it seems to always be the ones i really like! lol

Screenshot attached of a particularly troublesome font (PS this is not my theme! i just altered the start page so it's easy to see what i'm ranting about ^^)

EDIT: i should probably note that it is a V4 theme, latest GameEx.

[Draco1962]

Without the fonts to test this one will be difficult. Can you zip them and upload them here so one of the developers can take a look? I see what you are saying about the garbage artifacts along each line of text.

[DazzleHP]

As requested

There are a lot more that i've tried but tbh i have literally hundreds of fonts and these 3 i remembered, but they all (the dodgy ones) give the same result. Some however are really bad like "counter strike" (in 1st post) and others only mess up one letter for instance "bitsumishi" only messes the "V" and "digitek" only the "M". Strange huh. As mentioned i've tried numerous sizes, bold, italic etc but same results regardless.

Thanks for taking a look!

[Draco1962]

@Dazzle - I haven't had a chance yet to look deeper into this to see if I can replicate the issue but will try to do so this weekend. I am going to elevate the title to get Tom and/or Headkaze's attention to see if they may be able to offer a possible cause.

[u-man]

i have a problem with fonts too. for example if i use the LCD font (which Draco used in one of his themes, the one with the cool animated selection bar).

when using this font in italic, the font gets truncated / cut on the edges. it would be nice if you can tell them about this problem too.

i am not sure, but i think it has something to do, with the bitmaps that are created from the fonts and that they have not enough space in between the letters.

so that small fonts in height or fonts that are wider than normal (i.e. italic), show some stuff of the other letters in the ABC or are cutted on the edges.

it looks like GameEx is using a grid on the generated bitmap of the fonts and this grid is to small for the letters.