• Introduction
• Notes
• Lİmitations
• Font Creator
• To-Do
• Fonts

If you ever tried to put text in your maps, you know it's time-consuming and takes too many grounds. I made a tool that allows everyone to easily write on maps. Now you can create texts with JD objects which means It won't take any of your precious grounds. I hope you enjoy it.
Here is a little demo with outline:

Check out the "Notes" tab for some detail.
This is a link

01.03.2015: Font creator added

I think most of the fields are pretty self-explanatory. Although if you need precise scaling, this picture may help.


Text: Currently only upper case letters, numbers and . : / Allowed.
Opacity: Float 0:invisible, 1:opaque
X,Y is the location of top-left corner
Gap: The font already have some gap between the characters. If you wish, you can add some more distance between them. (Recommended for small fonts and outline )
Connected Ground: Text will be connectod to this ground. Anything but '1' will make the text background.
Thickness: If 0, same as Text Size
 
You need at least one ground for the text to be visible.

• Currently only upper case letters, numbers and . : / Allowed.
• Only thing that limits the text length is the map editor's 20KB limit when importing XMLs. Since every character uses different number of JD objects, It's impossible to talk about a maximum length. But it should be OK for ~100 characters (~50 with outline).

Now you can create your own fonts by following this guide:

• Go to Viprin's Editor
• Load this XML code:
Spoiler
<C><P/><Z><S /><D /><O /><L><VL n="Horizontal"l="-1"/><JD P1="-1000,260"P2="1800,260"c="000001,1,1,0"/><JD P1="-1000,100"P2="1800,100"c="000002,1,1,0"/><VL n="vertical"l="-1"/><JD P1="300,-500"P2="300,900"c="000003,1,1,0"/><JD P1="500,-500"P2="500,900"c="000004,1,1,0"/><VL n="Font"l="-1"/><L /></L></Z></C>
• You will draw each charcter here.
• DO NOT move lines under "Horizontal" layer
• After you finish drawing a single character move the lines under layer "vertical" to ends of the character. Leave some distance at the right side so letters won't touch eachother.
Note: All new lines should be in layer "Font"
Some examples of correct drawings:

• Now, generate XML code in "Recommended" settings
• Go to the link bellow this guide.
• Enter the character you just draw in the "Character" field. (You are still limited with ASCII)
Note: It's case-sensitive
• Copy-Paste the XML code you generated in the pink step.
• Hit "Submit"
• Copy the code in the "Font" box and keep it somewhere safe.
• Leave this page open to add more characters.
You just added a character to your new font. Jump back to the green step and repeat with the characters you want to add.

If everthing went OK that means you just created your own font. Post it here with a screenshot, so other people can use it.
To use your or other's font copy-paste it to the "font" box in the Text Tool.
Note: DO NOT use Bezier curve in Viprin's editor


The Font Creator

• Lower case support Possible with 3rd party fonts
• Fonts!
• Multilayer text with different fonts
• Make an all js version of this.
• Allow everyone to add new fonts. Done!
• Special charact fonts.
• More Fonts!

More fonts will be added here.

Sherrwagn a dit :

Nice, thanks for this. And it doesn't use text, it uses JD joints which are basically lines that can form text. The ulwy name at the top can also be removed by deleting all joints up to &lt;JD P1="62,34"P2="62,38"c="b7bb2f,2,1,1"/&gt;, inclusive ;p

+ulwy a dit :

Thanks for the responses!

Sherrwagn a dit :VoirMasquer

Nice, thanks for this. And it doesn't use text, it uses JD joints which are basically lines that can form text. The ulwy name at the top can also be removed by deleting all joints up to &lt;JD P1="62,34"P2="62,38"c="b7bb2f,2,1,1"/&gt;, inclusive ;p

Exactly. After all, It's just cleartext.

hipstered a dit :

Oh! AWESOME! Makes the tool even better! I could help you with some fonts @+Ulwy

+ulwy a dit :

hipstered a dit :VoirMasquer

Oh! AWESOME! Makes the tool even better! I could help you with some fonts @+Ulwy

That would be great. I was planning to write script that imports the drawings from Viprin's editor. Otherwise it's just too hard to do manually.

Sherrwagn a dit :

+ulwy a dit :VoirMasquer

hipstered a dit :VoirMasquer

Oh! AWESOME! Makes the tool even better! I could help you with some fonts @+Ulwy

That would be great. I was planning to write script that imports the drawings from Viprin's editor. Otherwise it's just too hard to do manually.

doesn't that already exist here http://cjobjects.makinit.nl/