I need some font sets for my billboarding engine. I know I have the Quake TGA somewhere, but I really don’t like it that much for my engine. I’d prefer a thinner font set, plus possibly a couple different ones to use.
So, does anybody have any, or know where to find them? They’re just too tedious to make by hand.
Yeah, when I found it I thought it was great but I can’t get the TGA’s to load they seem to be full of errors, sometimes the texture ends up white. Also I have a general problem with TGA in the the alpha channel is very strange- windows always insists that there is no transparency and my app wont make the transparent parts transparent when I use alpha test. Also if I click on properties with a TGA in windoze after 20 seconds explorer will crash.
Loads of other strange things happen with TGA fles on my PC !!!
I never had problems with TGA’s, but I prefer BMP files anyway. It’s just as easy to handle transparency with a 24-bit bitmap anyway. A little array flexing and you’re done.
I guess its just me, but everytime I see an application using bmp files my mind says “bad code”.
I actually dunno why, but I prefer applications with some other image format.
Seeing an application with .TGA and .JPG files make my mind go “great code!”.
Originally posted by Hull:
[b]I guess its just me, but everytime I see an application using bmp files my mind says “bad code”.
I actually dunno why, but I prefer applications with some other image format.
Seeing an application with .TGA and .JPG files make my mind go “great code!”.
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When I see an app using jpegs, my mind says “Waste of processing decompressing it and bad image quality.” When I see an app that uses TGA’s, my mind says “Old image format, old app.”
To each his own I guess.
BTW: the LMNOpc app doesn’t support antialiasing. Oh well… at least it does some font smoothing. Thanks again for the help!