Font_bold.xnb recreate?

Is it possible to create Font_bold.xnb from a scratch, or just editing the current one to add more characters? Not latin characters...
Because the .yaml created by xnbnode in unusable in this font unlike spritefont

 

Hi @abuali. I suggest using the latest version of XNB Extract instead.

 

Same...
To be clear, i can edit the .png, but .yaml doesn't have glyph info to edit or add new ones as the spritefont

 

Unlike the files under Content\Fonts, that one isn't actually a sprite font. The game has special logic to calculate the position of an given character. In theory you can add support for new characters by extending the bottom (without changing the width), but I haven't tried it. Here's the logic if you want to try adding new characters:

Code:

let index = ASCII_CODE_OF_CHARACTER - 32
let pixelPosition = (
   x: index * 8 % spritesheetWidth,
   y: index * 8 / spritesheetWidth * 16 + (if is_junimo_text: 224, else: 0)
)

 

So, only ANSI letters could be read on this one?

 

Nope, the index is based on the UTF-16 code point. I don't think anyone has tried doing this though, so I don't know how well it will work.

 

But I didn't understand that logic well, maybe a short example would help

 

Here's a combined formula for the pixel position of a character in that spritesheet. The spritesheet width is 128px, so I'll put that in now:

Code:

(x: (charCode - 32) * 8 % 128, y: (charCode - 32) * 8 / 128 * 16 + (if is_junimo_text: 224, else: 0))

Let's say you want to add the A character. The UTF-16 (and ASCII) code for A is 65, so let's plug that into the formula:

Code:

  (x: (charCode - 32) * 8 % 128, y: (charCode - 32) * 8 / 128 * 16 + (if is_junimo_text: 224, else: 0))
= (x: (65 - 32) * 8 % 128, y: (65 - 32) * 8 / 128 * 16 + (if is_junimo_text: 224, else: 0))
= (x: 8, y: 33 + (if is_junimo_text: 224, else: 0))

In other words:

• if you can read Junimo text, A is at position (8, 33):
  
  
• Otherwise it's at position (x: 8, y: 257):
  

 

Still didn't know how to deal with this part of the equation

Code:

(x: (charCode - 32) * 8 % 128

how to deal with the number 128 ? in the last?
no matter what I do I get wrong answer

 

128 is the spritesheet width, and % is modulo.

 

So in this

How the answer came 8?
I got 264 as an answer!

 

That's due to order of operations. This should be a bit clearer:

Code:

x: ((65 - 32) * 8) % 128

 

Now I get 337.92 !
I never been so dump at maths than this time lol

 

Code:

((65 - 32) * 8) % 128
= (33 * 8) % 128
= 264 % 128
= 8

You can also enter the whole thing in the Google search box, and it'll give you the answer.

 

Thanks, also I get it done by Excel using MOD function

Code:

=MOD(((65- 32) * 8),128)

 

It seems impossible to do, because the image file would be too big and cannot be read by the game..
So I moved to another option,
Modding language other than English, luckily the other languages doesn't have "font_bold.xnb" kind of file, it have a native font created by BMfont application that can be recreated easily.
The problem is that there is one file that cannot be extracted by xnb_node
which is these files

Code:

Chinese.xnb
Japanese.xnb
Russian.xnb

all of them have the same format

and when I try to show its content by GXView, it shows this error

Code:

Can't find type reader 'BmFont.XmlSourceReader'.

 

I haven't used GXView, but you can unpack the file to get the actual XML data.

 

The rest of the files can be unpacked, but these

Code:

Chinese.xnb
Japanese.xnb
Russian.xnb

Cannot be unpacked

 

Those unpack fine for me (using xnbcli):

 

xnbcli did it, thanks!