Use fonts from Aircraft Directory

[Octal450]

I have found some nice custom fonts which is GPL, and wants to use in my aircraft. Is it possible to put him inside the aircraft's folder, and use it from there?
Thanks,
Josh

[erik]

As far as I know there are no restrictions regarding using a custom font.
Just use the relative path including "Aircraft/<aircraft-name>" and you should be fine.

Erik

[Octal450]

Awesome stuff, thanks

[Gijs]

What kind of font is it? If it's something useful for other aircraft (like a font used on an instrument) it'd make sense to add it to the main Fonts/ in fgdata.

[Octal450]

It's 16segment display all chacaters

[wkitty42]

there was some (digital display) segment fonts added to the system sometime in the last 6 to 8 months... have you looked at them? i don't recall their name and have no clue as to how to load and use them in a craft...

[erik]

That was for 7 and 14 segment fonts:
https://sourceforge.net/p/flightgear/fg ... onts/DSEG/

Erik

[Octal450]

I'll take a look.

[Hooray]

I agree with Gijs, please do add useful stuff to the base package, and maybe add an example to the wiki explaining how to use such new fonts

[Octal450]

Don't you use them the same way you use other fonts?

[Octal450]

Hi,
This is not working. It goes back to a default font.

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    <text>
        <name>pitch-c1</name>
        <offsets>
            <x-m>0.0015</x-m>
            <y-m>0</y-m>
            <z-m>0.001</z-m>
        </offsets>
        <alignment>center-center</alignment>
        <axis-alignment>yz-plane</axis-alignment>
        <type type="string">text-value</type>
        <format type="string">%s</format>
        <truncate type="bool">false</truncate>
        <font type="string">Aircraft/MD-88/Fonts/MD80FMA.ttf</font>
        <property>/fma/pitch/c1</property>
        <draw-text type="bool">true</draw-text>
        <draw-alignment type="bool">false</draw-alignment>
        <draw-boundingbox type="bool">false</draw-boundingbox>
        <character-size>0.014</character-size>
        <font-resolution>
            <width type="int">32</width>
            <height type="int">32</height>
        </font-resolution>
    </text>

Josh

[erik]

<font type="string">Aircraft/MD-88/Fonts/MD80FMA.ttf</font>

That's odd, the code for the TextAnimation is no different than the code for text handling in Canvas.

Could you, for a test, try if setting it to DSEG/DSEG7/Classic/DSEG7Classic-BoldItalic.ttf works?
I know for sure that works for Canvas.

Erik

[Hooray]

It is a different beast actually - Torsten introduced this several years prior to Canvas (see README.osgtext) - back then, we talked about generalizing the whole idea to support arbitrary textures (for runway skid marks back then), but it never really caught fire until 2012 - so it's definitely a different piece of SG/FG glue that is used, even though it is correct that internally both end up using OSG - but it's not the same code under the hood. In fact, a number of people actually suggested unifying the whole shebang to get rid of old legacy code doing pretty much the same thing (think GUI, 2D panels, HUD, TextAnimation).

[Octal450]

@Hooray
No offence, but the whole get rid of everything and switch to Canvas speed is getting irritating.

Canvas is very difficult, and I am just beginning to learn it.

For simple things such as this simple FMA, I don't really want to make the whole thing Canvas, when I can do it easier with OSGtext/AC3D.

I might just fallback and use FlightGears font if I HAVE to. There's got to be a way to this!

[Octal450]

I dropped the Fonts into the FlightGear Fonts folder, and They work.

If they can be added to FGdata, it would be nice!

They are both GPL, and are a sixteen segment display font, and a dot matrix font.