there's files in the art dir like font_trebuchetRegular13-00a1-00ff.dat
BoyC
@BoyC
ooooh, pre converted then
lye
@lye
so I'm pretty sure we raster glyph ranges of a font to a proprietary format that has glyph/kerning metadata for a specific point size and codepoint range
BoyC
@BoyC
that's exactly what i'm trying to do :D
would that file happen to start with BMF per chance? :D
oh no it wouldn't because that format contains filenames and the dat file uses ids
lye
@lye
the raster things the engine reads are in a proprietary format
BoyC
@BoyC
has to be because of the datafile
lye
@lye
has to be because of NIH
ftfy
BoyC
@BoyC
NIH?
lye
@lye
not invented here
the font compiler tool appears to take XLSX documents as input
and hand-parses them
for the sake of my sanity i'm going to stop looking into this :heart:
BoyC
@BoyC
:D
thanks for looking into it anyway
i wonder if i can find one of those in the datafile :) (the dats)
lye
@lye
the tag for the compiled fonts is AFNT (or TNFA, not sure why they're always backwards in code)
BoyC
@BoyC
little vs big endian
do those contain the rasterized glyphs too?
lye
@lye
casting strings to uint32_t considered harmful
by my reading yeah
BoyC
@BoyC
oh cool
_
lye
@lye
I'm willing to bet that they've been hand-tweaked or something
which is why they don't quite use the same glyphs as a normal trebuchet
BoyC
@BoyC
yeah based on my experiments the kerning between chars is pretty much tweaked
time to dust of my datafile browsing hat
lye
@lye
good luck and godspeed
BoyC
@BoyC
i was the original guy to unpack the gw1 datafile, so... :D
Archomeda
@Archomeda
:O
BoyC
@BoyC
back then they put all the stuff in the client if you called it with -image, imagine my surprise when i found half-colored-in maps of the unannounced expansion :)
stitched them together, posted it on guild wars guru, post got deleted, so i moved on from datamining :D
Archomeda
@Archomeda
:/
BoyC
@BoyC
ffw 10 years, we have that_shaman doing the heavy lifting :D
Archomeda
@Archomeda
i still want to index all the files, but... at the same time i don't really want to waste too much time
i had that amazing idea of keeping a history of things... but i never really pushed it because it takes time and effort :smile: