NSX (QFont)

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.

Key	Value	Description
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 separate picture).
face	string	Font face. For freetype and glyph font renderers this is name of group. For Ascii it's a path to conchars texture.
brightness	value	Floating point value of brightness scale. 1 is nothing, 0.1 is 10% etc.
scale	x y	Two floating point values storing horizontal and vertical scale of font chars.
width	x	X component of scale.
height	y	Y component of scale.
respath	y	Path to font resources. Could be relative (if begins with ./) or absolute (from gamedir). Default is subfolder named as font file.

Freetype font face group

Attributes of font face for freetype font renderer.

Key	Value	Description
file	path	Path to .OTF/.TTF font file. Could be relative to respath (if begins with ./) or absolute (from gamedir root).
slot	slotname	Engine font slot. Used to replace fontmaps that was already initialized. Darkplaces engine have this fixed slots: default, console, sbar, notify, chat, centerprint, infobar, menu, user0, user1, user2, user3, user4, user5, user6, user7.
glyphs	string	Engine font slot. Used to replace fontmaps that was already initialized. Engine will render font pages containing this string chars (others will be rendered on demand).
r_antialias	0/1	Toggles antialiasing for font pages renderer.
r_hinting	0/1/2/3	Toggles hinting for font pages renderer. 0 - no hinting, 1 - light autohintinh, 2 - full autohinting, 3 - full hinting.
r_shadow	strength	Outline shadow strength (could be more than 1).
r_shadowblur	strength	Outline shadow blur.
r_shadowofs	x y z	Outline shadow offset. X and Y applied during rendering. Z is applied during blur.
r_charcushion	x	Characters vertical offset in percents (1 - 100%, 0.1 - 10%).
r_charscale	x	Characters uniform scale.

Ascii font face group

Attributes of font face for freetype font renderer.

Key	Value	Description
1	2	3