New default font?

[titi]

As you all know we still have a problem with the slightly transparent fonts. As we obviously cannot fix it ( at the moment ) we started to think about using a bold font as default font, because it looks whiter and is more easy to read ( for me ).

This is the same font, but with bold,
which would look like the following. What do you think, better? (

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[Omega]

Looks great, definitely an improvement.

[Ishmaru]

Much better!

[Coldfusionstorm]

The font still looks smeared, but its a little better i recon, but it needs a proper fix.

[will]

Most games draw the text five times; they draw it in black to the left, to the right, slightly above and slightly below, and finally draw the main text in the right place in white.

[Omega]

Most games draw the text five times; they draw it in black to the left, to the right, slightly above and slightly below, and finally draw the main text in the right place in white.

So in other words, an outline?

[titi]

@will: Thats what i did too! But drawing everything twice already had a big effect on the fps! Thats why I did not do it :/

for example options menu with my video card ( 9600GT):

single text rendering: 248 fps
double rendering: 197 fps

so round about a loss of 50fps just for white and clear fonts!

[Pizza90]

Much better! I like the new font!

[Coldfusionstorm]

@will: Thats what i did too! But drawing everything twice already had a big effect on the fps! Thats why I did not do it :/

for example options menu with my video card ( 9600GT):

single text rendering: 248 fps
double rendering: 197 fps

so round about a loss of 50fps just for white and clear fonts!

as long as this fps drop is only in the menu but i doubt it was confined to menu right?

[titi]

Yes, its maybe not 50 fps in the game, but still a lot (>30 fps)

[Coldfusionstorm]

:S, that sucks.

[softcoder]

Ok added another font renderer (freetype-gl) and the fonts no longer look blurry. Also users can load (from commandline) using the standard ISO639-1 language code to start MG in their native language:

megaglest --use-language=zh

Would be for chinese.

Beta2 coming soon once i talk to titi.

_{Edit by Omega: Typo fix. I don't think "megalgest" would fair well on the command line}