Revision as of 18:51, 2 July 2012

Introduction

.QFONT files are .NSX scripts that holds parameters for NetherMenu font draw module.

Example of .QFONT file contents:

[qfont]
type=FT
face=default
brightness=0.8
width=1.2

[default]
file=./big.ttf
sizes=38
glyphs=abcdefghijklmnopqrttuvwxyz0123456789
r_shadow=0.8
r_shadowblur=1
r_shadowofs=0 0.5 0.5

Structure

[qfont] group

Should be the first groups of file, it sets font drawer and face group.

type x

Type of font drawer, each of it has it's advantages and disadvantages:

Possible values:

• ft - Darkplaces vector fonts using freetype library
• ascii - Quake ascii conchars (256 chars on a 16*16 table)
• glyph - QuakeC glyph font renderer (each char is separatepic).

face path

Path to the glyphs map which have different value based on font renderer type:

• for ascii conchars its path to conchars map.
• for freetype is path to .TTF/.OTF file.
• for glyph renderer it is name of glyph table group.

brightness x

Floating point value of brightness scale. 1 is nothing, 0.1 is 10% etc.

Applies to all renderer types.

scale x y

Two floating point values storing horizontal and vertical scale of font chars.

Applies to all renderer types.

width x

X component of scale.

height y

Y component of scale.

respath path

Path to font resources. Default path is sub-folder named as qfont file without extension.