... Images in Rulesets...

[Oberoten]

I think I finally came up with a way to put illustration into databases in FG.
I have not yet tried it, but it SHOULD work unless you can not stomach the very idea of black and white line-art.

Convert vectors into fonts. Save the fonts, make the fonts into fantasy grounds fonts.

Put a place on the displaying frame where you show a letter corresponding to the right illustration in the new font.

Simple. Should work...

IF it does? Give me stylepoints? :) And let me know if anyone has a program that can do this conversion? For I have line-art I wish to convert...

[Toadwart]

Cool idea. On the same note, anyone know of any good font creation software?(preferrably share/freeware but I'll consider anything)

Theres also some info on images in rulesets over at the FUM site: https://www.fouruglymonsters.com/community/showthread.php?t=614

[devinnight]

FontCreator has a free trail, but costs $79 for a personal copy.

Typetool is a well known app... though it doesn't list XP as a supported system... Has a demo, but costs $100.

I used to use Fontographer and have a copy on my MAC laptop, however that is the old OS which I'm going to wipe completely. If you need a minor change to an existing font I can probably help you there.
-D

[Toadwart]

Cheers D. I'll give those two a try.
Primarily I want to try my hand at making fonts for some runic style languages, but might also try to come up with a custom font for use in FG rulesets.

[Oberoten]

Coreldraw has the function to save as TTF as well from version 3.0 and up... Reliably so from version 4.0 and up.

Both programs are old and should be pretty cheap if you can find them somewhere to buy.

[Toadwart]

Thanks for the advice guys. I was pretty impressed with FontCreator and have purchased a copy. Just need some time to play with it now.
Know of any mad scientists with cloning or time-travel facilities? ;)

TypeTool looked ok too (both ran ok on WinXP) but I went for FontCreator because it seemed easier to use.


Oberteron: FontCreator looks like it can do what you originally suggested. It can import images and convert them to characters in a font.
The demo version seems to be fully functional (30 day eval) if you want to give it a try.

[Oberoten]

*grins* Mike an' Ike and all that. :)

Been running the Demo since monday. :) And yeah, I am thinking I might well come to pay for the full version. There are definite posibilities to this after all.