A2/FO Font Documentation

posted on May 10th, 2016, 10:58 pm

Does anybody have any documentation on how the font sprite files work? I want to change some of the sprites, like the "Units Granted" or "Mixed-Tech" font sprites, to icons since the mod I'm working on doesn't need those particular ones and I would like to have some new icons to use in tooltips. If I I just edit the texture file, then there will be the icon, followed by a long blank. I basically just need to know how to make the sprite narrower, but the font SPR files are very different from the others.

posted on May 11th, 2016, 8:50 pm

After staring at it for a while, I figured it out. The large set of number pairs is an array of x and y coordinates for characters, the large column of single numbers is their width, and the sprite entry at the very bottom contains the font's character height. I assume that the order is hardcoded so that the first entry is always the sprite drawn for a space and so forth. I am now commenting the font files to make it easy to find characters and will post the final commented files when I'm done.

posted on May 14th, 2016, 1:39 am

If anybody is interested, here's the final commented font files. If you want to add custom symbols to the tooltips or create entirely new fonts, these files should help.

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