oh...
I didn't know the font had a name other than the file name (I'm a font
n00b), I left the name as "HalfLife2." I changed the actual font name
and everything works now, thank you kindly Mr. Matt Boone!
On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 16:00:08 -0800, Matt Boone <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Make sure "newfont" is the actual name of the font, which is possibly
> different from the font's filename. Also remove the space from the
> "newfont " entry.
>
> -Original Message-
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> [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Heritage
> Sent: Tuesday, March 22, 2005 3:35 PM
> To: hlcoders@list.valvesoftware.com
> Subject: [hlcoders] Need help with custom fonts please
>
> So I made my own font, put it my mod's resource folder, edited
> ClientScheme.res and nothing works. I'm having lots of trouble with the
> redundant unnecessary scripting stuff.
>
> Here is my virtual font I scripted
>
> HudText
> {
>"1"
>{
>"name" " newfont "
>"tall" "32"
>"weight""0"
>"antialias" "1"
>"additive" "1"
>"custom""3"
>}
> }
>
> The reason I had to make this thing is because halflife hud font doest
> have letters and I wanted to add a letter or two into my hud without
> changing the hl2 font. So I made my new font called "newfont" which is
> just the hl2 font with the letters I needed which replaces some of those
> weapon symbols, then I added what would appear to be like the correct
> stuff at the bottom of the ClientScheme.res file
>
> CustomFontFiles
> {
>"1" "resource/HALFLIFE2.ttf"
>"1" "resource/HL2MP.ttf"
>"2" "resource/HL2crosshairs.ttf"
> "3" "resource/newfont.ttf"
> }
>
> Now, I am probably missing something somewhere, but before I extract
> every script file from the .GCF pack and do a massive search for text in
> files to compare what I may be or may not be missing, I figured I would
> just ask here because im becoming very frustrating with these scripts. I
> don't even like scripts. I'm going to have to figure out a way to
> unscripted most everything because I don't want the server admins
> changing the weapon values etc.. etc.. or the clients messing up their
> gui/huds. Anyway, if someone could tell me how to add a new font, I
> would appreciate it. And lets not even talk about compiling VTF files
> because I'll blow up! I really hate TGA files, can't we just got back to
> bitmaps and sprites, what the hell is a shader, lol. I'm going to start
> needing hl2-sdk antidepressant pills.
>
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