Does anyone know of or use a good square font that works with DDA?

Mythius · 2013-05-11T04:56:27.000Z

Well this is a breath of fresh air! Thanks for the excellent suggestions, the game looks a lot nicer now using cootuecurses.

Austupaio · 2013-05-11T21:39:23.000Z

Was looking to put cootuecurses for myself, but I don’t know how to actually replace the ingame font.

Would a small guide be feasible?

Miloch · 2013-05-12T05:03:51.000Z

It’s pretty simple. Install the font into windows. Right click and install I believe on the font file.
Then you just edit the FONTDATA file. It’s under the data folder. Here’s mine.

FONTDATA
cootue_curses_square_16x16
16
16

TheKaltur · 2013-05-16T15:01:35.000Z

Can u tell me what the best font (and fontsize) is having a screen resolution of 1366x768?

Thanks in advance…

Ferodaktyl · 2013-05-16T15:53:23.000Z

a very good font indeed this cootue_curses_square_16x16, just tried it and it works well for me, 1280x1024, 11x11 in fontdata file, and 30x45 screen size fits just perfect.

Nighthawk · 2013-05-17T01:12:21.000Z

Beautiful. I love it.

keeko · 2013-05-17T02:46:04.000Z

This font…ITS GORGEOUS.

vultures · 2013-05-22T17:35:24.000Z

This is the closest I got to fullscreen in windows. Desktop size is 1024^768. The font is system’s Courier font, abbreviated as coure.fon.

FONTDATA
Courier
9
13

options.txt
viewport_x 30
viewport_y 30
move_view_offset 0

Mate · 2013-05-22T21:09:02.000Z

Topaz-8 10*10 works perfectly to me. It almost looks good.

Xommers · 2013-06-22T07:41:03.000Z

To those who are using cootuecurses at 12x12 size and things look a little wonky, try setting it to 12 by 13. It’s not perfectly square this but it’s hard to tell and looks better.

SirTeabottom · 2013-06-22T11:30:59.000Z

Yeah. For anyone who’s using SDL v0.6 what have you found is the best setting for Curses? Or any font for that matter? No matter what I set the stuff to I always end up with it either being really tiny looking and painful to the eyes or decent looking and cut off, or sometimes the letter-danglies are offset from the actual game tile. i.e the + f an evac shelter is almost protruding into the tile next to it on the map.

Mate · 2013-06-22T12:02:05.000Z

Topaz-8 10*10 works for me.

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SirTeabottom · 2013-06-22T12:19:40.000Z

[quote=“Máté, post:21, topic:264”]Topaz-8 10*10 works for me.

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Ah. Thanks!

EDIT: Unfortunately, not even that works. Probably should’ve tested it before thanking you…

http://imgur.com/a/yOHEO Theres my FONTDATA settings and the results.

Slax · 2013-06-22T13:04:27.000Z

I enjoy cootue’s at 16x16. Viewport at 28x28. Almost fullscreen on 1080p, leaves room for my browser toolbar.

vultures · 2013-06-22T22:43:19.000Z

This SDL (git, latest official) does everyting for me to maximize the screen, but the bar is there thus - not full screen. If someone worked a way around this please post.

Lanceo90 · 2013-07-16T03:22:27.000Z

Sorry if this is reviving a dead topic. But cootue’s won’t work for me anymore on .6

Anyone else having this problem?

utunnels · 2013-07-16T04:06:48.000Z

Where did you put the font?

Lanceo90 · 2013-07-16T04:37:53.000Z

Not sure?

I installed it around the time of .4

Edited the FONTDATA file so it said “cootue_curses_squares16x16” (can’t remember the full name of the font right now, so if this is misspelt here, don’t worry, its right in the file)

It runs itself with the standard font now.

utunnels · 2013-07-16T04:46:37.000Z

If you install it on windows, the name is cootuecursessquare16x16, if you put the ttf in font folder, the name can be the file name without .ttf extension (this is the easiest way to do).

Anyway, cootuecursessquare16x16 always work.

If you install new font (in data, data/font, or your system font folder), just delete fontlist.txt in data folder so the game can scan it again. This is not a must if you only want to use file name in data/font folder.

Lanceo90 · 2013-07-16T05:15:45.000Z

Ok I got it working, but the spacing looks wrong horizonally, like there’s too much.

That’s with typing:

cootue_curses_square_16x16
16
16

in FONTDATA