q3font problem :<

(StrZ) #1

lo m8’s,
yesterday, i downloaded q3font to change a font in my demo replay in ET. Now i wanted to get it working while playing a demo, for my frag movie… how do i do that? cuz what i do is:

  1. start q3font with cmd.
  2. read the readme:
    q3font -createex -size 20 aston278

that aston font is an truetype font, so no problem there.
the q3font program does what he should do, making dat files and tga files.
now i pack it in into an .pk3 file with the etpro, so i get the etpro, with the font map in it… now when i start in etpro and type /sv_pure 0 i still have the normal ET font! :<

plz help me :>

-strZ

(nUllSkillZ) #2

How is the name of the tga?
And which path have you used in the pk3?

And you should not pack it in the etpro pk3.
Create a pk3 file that contains the tga.
Name has to start with z_ .
And put this into your etmain / etpro directory.

(StrZ) #3

well, i packed it in in a folder called /fonts/ in my etpro-3_1_9.pk3 . then i renamed it to strzfont.pk3
what am i doing wrong?

  • StrZ

edit: /fonts/ map in pk3 file contain the following files:
2 tga files:
ast126_0_20.tga
ast126_1_20.tga

1 dat file:
ast126_20.dat

(StrZ) #4

any1?

(Lanz) #5

Well you can’t just dump a font in a pk3 and think it will work. The engine register two font’s and that is ariblk and courbd. You need to tell the engine that it should replace those font’s with yours. What you need to do is to save your fonts with those names, create a pk3 that is alpabetically greater than pak0.pk3, zzz.pk3 or something and then it should work.