LavishGUI:Fonts
Contents
Introduction
What is a font?
An ISUI font is a special texture separated into 256 portions (one for each ASCII character) to be used by ISUI elements for displaying text. Fonts can be fixed width (such as FixedSys or Terminal) or variable width (Arial, etc), though some element types require fixed width fonts (such as the console element type).
Creating Fonts
Fonts are essentially a texture with all 256 ASCII characters shown, and a list of where each of those characters appears on the image. Therefore, defining a font is much the same as defining a texture, except you define 256 rectangles instead of 1. This is an easy task for fixed fonts, where the characters appear uniformly on the image, and a shortcut is given here to do so.
The image used should be 16 characters wide, and 16 characters high, ideally no larger than 256x256. You should use at least 1 pixel of padding between characters to avoid extra parts lying around when it comes time to display the text.
Attributes
- Name
- Filename
- ColorKey
Properties
- Fixed
- BaseHeight
- Characters
Characters
Attributes
Character
Attributes
Properties
Using Fonts
Properties
- Name
- Name of font to use. If the font does not exist, a default font will be selected
- Color
- Color to apply to the font
- Size
- Height, in pixels, to use for the font. The width will be scaled based on this Size compared to the Base Height given in the font definition
