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Robot Arena => General Support => Topic started by: Mr. AS on November 15, 2015, 10:18:31 PM
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Is it at all possible to change the font RA2 uses, or is it dictated by the .exe?
Apparently the game uses "fg_mcn14" as a font according to events.txt, but googling that just brings up results for GTM.
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The following is a list of fonts that RA2 recognizes:
- fg_d18
- fg_d20
- fg_d24
- fg_d26
- fg_dcn14
- fg_dcn16
- fg_mcn12
- fg_mcn14
- fg_mcn16
- System
With the exception of the last one, all of these fonts can be found in RA2.cfz with the .GIFF extension. Unfortunately, the file format appears to be used exclusively by Gabriel Interactive. That said, it is probably based off of some other more common format since all of the custom formats that Gabriel Interactive created were human readable (like GIBs and BOTs) unless they modified/renamed some other format (like they did for CFZs and GMFs).
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That said, it is probably based off of some other more common format since all of the custom formats that Gabriel Interactive created were human readable (GIBs and BOTs) unless they modified/renamed some other format (CFZs and GMFs).
I tried opening it up in notepad++ like I would with a .bot or .gib and got a screen full of [nul]s.
(http://i.imgur.com/Y0Px0x6.png)
Opening an actual font file also gives garbage data, but it seems like the .ttf I opened up has a different header than the .giff. What software would I use to go about to convert this into non-gibberish?
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To my knowledge, the community has never known how to open/modify these files. If we could figure out which format they based it on, we could probably reverse engineer it but I haven't had much luck.
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I hope we do figure this out. Id love my RA2 to be filled with the grace of comic sans. :laughing
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tried any image editors? just curious, since a lot of games use images for fonts.
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I've personally tried both Paint and Paint.net