no comic sans?
ooh that's cool! Is that tool going to support multiple glyph layers (as found in the MP2+ FONT formats)?
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More particle stuff!
http://www.metroid2002.com/retromodding/wiki/PART_%28File_Format%29
That's almost 100% complete, though LIT_ and RSOP needs to be figured out.. and any properties added after MP1.
EDIT: Oh KSSM also needs to be documented.. I'll probably add a separate section for that data layout
http://www.metroid2002.com/retromodding/wiki/PART_%28File_Format%29
That's almost 100% complete, though LIT_ and RSOP needs to be figured out.. and any properties added after MP1.
EDIT: Oh KSSM also needs to be documented.. I'll probably add a separate section for that data layout
MP1/2 ANIM docs are pretty darn close to complete, aside from some header fields.
MP3 still has some unknown operational aspects, like the per-frame signal bit in the bitstream and the extra bits in the bone key header channel (where the W sign bit is extracted from), As well as a bunch of header fields. I suspect they play a role in triggering CHAR events while associating them with bones.
MP3 still has some unknown operational aspects, like the per-frame signal bit in the bitstream and the extra bits in the bone key header channel (where the W sign bit is extracted from), As well as a bunch of header fields. I suspect they play a role in triggering CHAR events while associating them with bones.
Sooo, I got curious about a few of the fonts in the series so I decided to look them up:
The digit font in MP1 is quite a bit like Crubster:
http://myfonts.us/td-QpLCCt
The japanese font in MP2 and 3 is called DF So Gei - W5
Which is FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS (USD):
http://www.fonts.com/font/dynacomware/df-so-gei-japanese/w-5
And the stylized font used in MP2 and 3 which looks like the image attached, is VoxBox:
http://www.dafont.com/voxbox.font
Those are the only ones I've been able to successfully track down.
The digit font in MP1 is quite a bit like Crubster:
http://myfonts.us/td-QpLCCt
The japanese font in MP2 and 3 is called DF So Gei - W5
Which is FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS (USD):
http://www.fonts.com/font/dynacomware/df-so-gei-japanese/w-5
And the stylized font used in MP2 and 3 which looks like the image attached, is VoxBox:
http://www.dafont.com/voxbox.font
Those are the only ones I've been able to successfully track down.
attachment:
Oh, a bit more info on FONT:
What we thought was the index to the GLYPH's kerning information isn't so, it's actually just where the font STARTS checking, which is why it can be the larger than the actual number of entries.
CKernPair is the wchar, wchar, int set and it SEEMS that the engine is checking if either of those characters are nearby, if so it moves the glyph and bails, otherwise it continues checking.
What we thought was the index to the GLYPH's kerning information isn't so, it's actually just where the font STARTS checking, which is why it can be the larger than the actual number of entries.
CKernPair is the wchar, wchar, int set and it SEEMS that the engine is checking if either of those characters are nearby, if so it moves the glyph and bails, otherwise it continues checking.
While I'd tend to agree, that's not strictly true, so explicitly stating that it's the start would remove any ambiguity.
Edit:
So I went through and actually RE'd, with jacks help, the function responsible for getting the kerning info, and this is what it looks like:
Parax actually got pretty close way before this though.
Edit:
So I went through and actually RE'd, with jacks help, the function responsible for getting the kerning info, and this is what it looks like:
Code:
static s32 KernLookup(const std::vector<CKernPair>& kernTable, s32 kernStart, s32 chr)
{
auto iter = kernTable.cbegin() + kernStart;
for (; iter != kernTable.cend() && iter->GetFirst() == kernTable[kernStart].GetFirst() ; ++iter)
{
if (iter->GetSecond() == chr)
return iter->GetHowMuch();
}
return 0;
}Parax actually got pretty close way before this though.
technically, that was me.