changing default font

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I was just thinking while installing a new font on my computer, Is there a way to change the font of FF7? or is that pretty much hard coded on there?
 
Can textures be replaced with higher-res textures? That might be worth looking into, since the default font doesn't look all that great when running the game at higher resolutions.
 
Well, if it is a single texture with all the fonts on it, and it's fetching part of the image for each character, then you couldn't really replace the font with anything except a higher resolution of the same thing, or at the very least a new font with the same proportions.

If each letter is its own texture, that might not be as much of an issue, but you'd still want to keep sizing intact to prevent text from overflowing the window (or does the engine determine the necessary size of the window on the spot rather than having pre-sized windows per textbox?)

Since I've never actually done any modding or looked at any of the game's data files or even read any tech documents, the best I can do is make educated guesses and deductions. Would somebody who actually knows something care to comment?
 
Same issue. Never modded anything :oops:

Anyone who has the FF7 file formats and structures?
 
I'm sure that if you just extract all the texture files from something_us...? It is just a texture file, which is easily replaced. I think it's world_us? Or I could be completely wrong.  :-)
 
Sorry for the necroposting, I was going to create a new thread but thought it better to post here, since it's completely related and not that old.

Has anyone had any luck with this?

I unpacked the menu_us using lgp tools and found the font textures. Using biturn I converted the usfont files to bmp, then opened in Photoshop, converted to RGB and applied a blur filter. Then converted back to grayscale and saved in 8-bit.bmp. Then converted the .bmp's to .TEX's using biturn again. Created a new menu_us archive using lgptools and started the game.

- WTF!?

What did I do wrong?
 
Well, first of all, don't use biturn, it's very good at creating broken tex files.
Also make sure you preserve all the palettes.
 
I tried using img2tex aswell, but for some reason it just gave me a bmp file as output. Confused.
 
I can't find a link to it :(

But thats my issue, i thought it HAD to be RGB XD
 
I know it has to be grayscale, but you can't edit much in grayscale with photoshop. I also can't find a link to omega. Tried using Ficedula's textool but I get an access violation.

Hellbringer, if you have any luck, will you post screenshots? I need to get this font fixed, it grates me so much.
 
It's not just that it has to be greyscale. The palette has to be the same, you can't replace it with an image with a different palette or it will look like crap. (Unless you edit all of the 16 palettes)
 
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I believe the game uses DirectDraw to draw font.
 
Allow me to correct you, the game uses textured quads to draw font.
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I thought this was only necessary in games using Direct3D.
 
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What does that have to do with anything? Modern games are even more likely to use textured quads.
Everything in the PC versions of FF7/FF8 is done using 3D graphics, sprites/backgrounds etc are just textured quads.
Even the software driver emulates 3D graphics when it is drawing the fonts (And no, this is not as wasteful as it sounds)
 
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