UI Font Included with the game

posted on November 9th, 2009, 5:20 am

As some of you may know, Fleetops uses Segoe UI as it's UI font. I thought that you couldn't distribute this as it comes with windows and is owned by microsoft....

posted on November 17th, 2009, 1:41 am

Bump for attention. Not sure if the Devs have seen this - and since I know nothing about the rules governing this, it might be of importance... however: isn't it alright so long as FO isn't sold for profit (now there's a redundant statement)?

posted on November 17th, 2009, 4:05 am

besides the only decent computers the game is played on are PC's and most of them have windows that has the font on it anyway! 

posted on November 17th, 2009, 7:38 am

Bump for attention. Not sure if the Devs have seen this - and since I know nothing about the rules governing this, it might be of importance... however: isn't it alright so long as FO isn't sold for profit (now there's a redundant statement)?

However, Microsoft might argue that donations made by people are potentially profit...

posted on November 17th, 2009, 9:44 am

this is actually a more or less unused leftover from development. it will be removed with the next patch

posted on November 17th, 2009, 2:08 pm

Can there be race=specific fonts? You know... for the UI? I'd be more than happy to provide foreign race fonts if it is a yes...

Imagine, the UI of the Borg would be just like on a borg ship, using the borg font as its interface.

posted on November 17th, 2009, 3:32 pm

good luck with that i cant read borg.

posted on November 17th, 2009, 4:26 pm

good luck with that i cant read borg.

or Romulan, Klingon, dominion.... 

posted on November 17th, 2009, 4:39 pm

no no race specific fonts for the ui. it is intentionally kept in a 'neutral' design

posted on November 17th, 2009, 4:57 pm

yay for English (well and German too)

posted on November 17th, 2009, 5:02 pm

no no race specific fonts for the ui. it is intentionally kept in a 'neutral' design

Here here

posted on November 17th, 2009, 6:05 pm

Well, I guess I'm going to have to implement it myself....

posted on November 17th, 2009, 6:45 pm

no no race specific fonts for the ui. it is intentionally kept in a 'neutral' design

is that due to the work of the Universal Translator? 

posted on November 18th, 2009, 8:01 am

as this topic - for some reason - got totally out of hand i had to remove some posts. thanks again for pointing me to the issue with the shell font. btw. the shell font is absolutely unrelated to the ingame font. shell is for example main-screen, instant action screen, lobby, game options etc etc.
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