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Outline font support

Started by rapidliner, March 13, 2018, 10:12:50 PM

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rapidliner

Can Simutrans implement support outline font?

Now Simutrans is supporting only 12px-sided bitmap font. But high resolution-ization(4K UHDTV, full HD resolution with 5 inch smartphones, etc.) is a dominant trend in these days. In high resolution display environment, 12px-sided bitmap font is too small to read, especially Japanese or Chinese. Most Japanese or Chinese players want larger screen font, for smooth read text in Simutrans.

Leartin

Unless I missed the technological Singularity, no, Simutrans can't implement anything. ;)

However, developers can, and they are implementing that. It's just that it's a lot of work and has not quite the highest priority, so it will take a while.
(Source: Prissi in a German Thread)

prissi

Its 50% done. But it will still not look as nice as native outline fonts, since it will only use black and white rendering for the moment.

makie

Pixel fonts are always looking better, especially at low resolutions.
That's the price to pay for stepless font sizes.

prissi

Incorporated since at least two releases since 120.4