RenPy and fonts: Gibberish

[Lishy]

Hey guys, why does my font appear as gibberish ingame?



This is the code from options.rpy:

#########################################
## Font
style.default.font = "font/sazanami-gothic.ttf"
style.default.size = 19.5


#########################################

And this is a download to the font (I think, not uploaded by me):
http://www.mediafire.com/?qftnzzxwjok

Sazanami Gothic is a Japanese font, but it has complete english support. That is why I am baffled why this is happening in RenPy. Ideas what to do?

[Camille]

Some questions:

- This looks like an NVL screen. Have you altered the style of the text in the NVL screen at all?
- How else have you styled the text other than font/size (outside of NVL)?

Try downloading this font from somewhere else and replace the file you have in your game folder and see if that helps anything? I mean it could just be that your font file is corrupt or something. I can sort of make out the letters so it's not total gibberish, it's just that the font is coming out really oddly. I know a lot of people in this forum use/have used Sazanami Gothic Regular, so this shouldn't be a problem.

Edit; Okay I just downloaded the font you uploaded and the same thing happened in my game, so uh. I'm not really sure now. D: The font seems to show up just fine in like, menus and such, though... Which is weird.

[PyTom]

Okay, this is a weird one. If I'm understanding what's happening here (which I'm not 100% sure I am), it appears that things are going wrong with the font hinting. It looks like the problem is happening because we're asking for an antialiased version of the font, but the font program only wants to give us the aliased version.

I'd try:

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init python:
    style.default.font = "font/sazanami-gothic.ttf"
    style.default.size = 19.5
    style.default.antialias = False

I've tried this both with my build of freetype and with Ubuntu's - and the problems persist. So it's likely an issue with the font or freetype, rather than something Ren'Py specific.

[wolveski]

it looks like (though i could be wrong) the font is linux based only? doing a search mentions a lot of ubuntu but nothing about winbloze

[Lishy]

Alright, so what about the alternative? Salvaging the font? Though, I could swear, I had it work once before. I'll try asking him, or seeing if I'm using a bad version of the font. But any help is appreciated!

edit: How about this? I cannot test it at this moment though:
http://packages.debian.org/sid/ttf-sazanami-gothic

[PyTom]

I don't know what the alternative is, offhand. Things should work the same way across platforms, so once you find a build that works, it should work everywhere.

[wolveski]

have you put the font in windows/fonts?

just an idea

[PyTom]

wolveski - Ren'Py doesn't look in that directory.

[Lishy]

Maybe it is the font.. Weird.. Seems to work when I use the default.ttf from the Umineko translation.. So I have this working.. I guess??

So it's probably the font afterall. /thread

[wolveski]

wolveski - Ren'Py doesn't look in that directory.

i know,but as you stated you don't think its a Ren'py problem so i'm thinking it could be the hanari(?) text that the p.c itself cannot recognise so just thought that it might help

like i said just an idea

[Chu-3]

How about by changing the size to 22?

I dunno what happened, but if I change the size to 20 or 21 point, renpy will be forcibly shut down when I pressed the "Start Game" button.