TrueTypeFontFactory / UFontMaterial

UFontMaterial is a little plugin for UnrealEd's material factory based on TrueTypeFontFactory created by Jan "eGo" Urbansky

Source Code

EC_UFontMaterial.uc

// ========================================================================================
//	Package/class	:  	ECTools.EC_UFontMaterial
//	Autor			:	Jan "eGo" Urbansky
//	WWW				:	http://www.ego-creations.de
//	Script Version	:	0.6
//	last changed	:	12.03.2005 - 08:33
//
//	NOTE!!!!!!!!!!!!!
//	This script only works correctly with UT2004. Recommend usage with v3186 and higher.
//
//	Used information:
//	http://udn.epicgames.com/Two/FontTutorial
//	http://wiki.beyondunreal.com/wiki/TrueTypeFontFactory
// ========================================================================================
 
class EC_UFontMaterial extends MaterialFactory;
 
var class<Texture> MaterialClass< SEMI >
 
var() string FontName;
var() float FontSize;
 
var() enum EFontStyle
{
	Normal,
	Italic,
	Bold,
	Bold_Italic,
	Bolder,
	Bolder_Italic,
} FontStyle;
 
var() enum EFormat
{
	RGBA8,
	DXT1,
	DXT3,
	DXT5,
} TextureFormat;
 
var() bool AntiAlias;
var() string Chars;
var() int Count;
//var() int CharactersPerPage;		// obsolete UEngine stuff???
var() int DropShadowX;
var() int DropShadowY;
var() int ExtendBoxBottom;
var() int ExtendBoxLeft;
var() int ExtendBoxRight;
var() int ExtendBoxTop;
var() float Gamma;
var() int Kerning;
var() string Path;
var() bool Underline;
var() string UnicodeRange;
var() int USize;
var() int VSize;
var() string Wildcard;
var() int XPad;
var() int YPad;
var() const editconst string Copyright;
 
// ========================================================================================
//	Returns the font style
// ========================================================================================
private function string GetFontStyle()
{
	local string FS;
 
	switch( string( GetEnum( enum'EFontStyle',FontStyle ) ) ) {
		case "Normal":				FS = " STYLE=500 ITALIC=FALSE"; break;
		case "Italic":				FS = " STYLE=500 ITALIC=TRUE"; break;
		case "Bold":				FS = " STYLE=600 ITALIC=FALSE"; break;
		case "Bold_Italic":			FS = " STYLE=600 ITALIC=TRUE"; break;
		case "Bolder":				FS = " STYLE=700 ITALIC=FALSE"; break;
		case "Bolder_Italic":		FS = " STYLE=700 ITALIC=TRUE"; break;
	}
 
	return FS;
}
 
// ========================================================================================
//	Returns the compression value
// ========================================================================================
private function string GetCompression()
{
	local string CS;
 
	switch( string( GetEnum( enum'EFormat',TextureFormat ) ) ) {
		case "RGBA8":	CS = ""; break;					// RGBA8
		case "DXT1":	CS = " COMPRESSION=3"; break;	// DXT1
		case "DXT3":	CS = " COMPRESSION=7"; break;	// DXT3
		case "DXT5":	CS = " COMPRESSION=8"; break;	// DXT5
	}
	return CS;
}
 
// ========================================================================================
//	Builds the console command for the TrueTypeFontFactory
// ========================================================================================
private function string NewTTFMaterial( string InPackage, string InGroup, string InName )
{
	local string S;   								        							// command string declaration
 
	S = "NEW TrueTypeFontFactory";         		       				// create font with TTF factory
	S = S $ " NAME=\"" $ InName $ "\"";					    				// name of texture
	S = S $ " CLASS=\"" $ string(MaterialClass) $ "\"";     // name of class
	S = S $ " GROUP=\"" $ InGroup $ "\"";				    				// name of group
	S = S $ " PACKAGE=\"" $ InPackage $ "\"";			    			// name of package
	S = S $ " HEIGHT=" $ string(FontSize);			        		// font height
	S = S $ " USIZE=" $ string(USize);				        			// texture horizontal size
	S = S $ " VSIZE=" $ string(VSize);                      // texture vertical size
	S = S $ " FONTNAME=\"" $ FontName $ "\"";	   		    		// Windows font name
	S = S $ " YPAD=" $ string(YPad);				        				// texture tiles
	S = S $ " XPAD=" $ string(XPad);				        				// texture tiles
	S = S $ " ANTIALIAS=" $ string(AntiAlias);		        	// antialiasing
	S = S $ " COUNT=" $ string(Count);				        			// char count
	S = S $ " DROPSHADOWX=" $ string(DropShadowX);	        // shadow width X
	S = S $ " DROPSHADOWY=" $ string(DropShadowY);	        // shadow width Y
	S = S $ " GAMMA=" $ string(Gamma);				        			// gamma value
//	S = S $ " CHARACTERSPERPAGE=" $ string(CharactersPerPage);
	S = S $ " UNICODERANGE=\"" $ UnicodeRange $ "\"";	   		// Unicode characters, use Hex values comma separated
	S = S $ " WILDCARD=\"" $ Wildcard $ "\"";			    			// includes a file with Unicode characters (e.g. MyChars.*)
	S = S $ " EXTENDBOXBOTTOM=" $ string(ExtendBoxBottom);	// size box of the character letter (bottom edge)
	S = S $ " EXTENDBOXTOP=" $ string(ExtendBoxTop);				// size box of the character letter (top edge)
	S = S $ " EXTENDBOXLEFT=" $ string(ExtendBoxLeft);			// size box of the character letter (left edge)
	S = S $ " EXTENDBOXRIGHT=" $ string(ExtendBoxRight);		// size box of the character letter (right edge)
	S = S $ " UNDERLINE=" $ string(Underline);							// underline style
	S = S $ " PATH=\"" $ Path $ "\"";												// use it with Unicoderange (e.g. ".")
	S = S $ " KERNING=" $ string(Kerning);									// spaces between the characters
	S = S $ GetFontStyle();																	// font style
	S = S $ GetCompression();																// compression type
 
	// add backslashes to a string variable
	class'EC_StrUtils'.static.StrReplace( Chars , Chr(92) , Chr(92) $ Chr(92) );
	class'EC_StrUtils'.static.StrReplace( Chars , Chr(34) , Chr(92) $ Chr(34) );
 
	S = S $ " CHARS=\"" $ Chars $ "\"";	                    // chars to include
 
  Log( S );																								// log the command
 
	return S;
}
 
// ========================================================================================
//	Returns the created font material
// ========================================================================================
function Material CreateMaterial( Object InOuter, string InPackage, string InGroup, string InName )
{
	local string sMaterialPath;
 
	ConsoleCommand ( NewTTFMaterial( InPackage, InGroup, InName ) );
 
	// Package.Group.Name
	sMaterialPath = InPackage $ "." $ InName $ "." $ InName;
 
	if( MaterialClass == none ) {
		return none;
	} else {
		return Material( FindObject( sMaterialPath $ "_PageA" , MaterialClass) );
	}
}
 
// ========================================================================================
//	Default Properties for this Class
// ========================================================================================
defaultproperties
{
	MaterialClass=Engine.Texture
	AntiAlias=False
	Chars=" 0123456789ABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZabcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz`~!@#$%^&*()_+-=[]\\{}|;:',./?><\"¡«°»¿ÀÁÄÈÉÊËÌÍÑÒÓÖÙÚÜßàáâäçèéêëìíîïñòóôöùúûüæøå"
	Count=256
	FontName="Arial"
	FontSize=10.000000
	Gamma=0.700000
	Kerning=0
	YPad=1
	XPad=1
	USize=256
	VSize=256
	Description="TrueType Font Texture"
	Copyright="UnrealED Plugin (c) 2004-2005, EGO-CREATIONS"
}

EC_StrUtils.uc

// ========================================================================================
//  Package/class	:  	ECTools.EC_StrUtils
//	Autor			:	Jan "eGo" Urbansky
//	WWW				:	http://www.ego-creations.de
//	Script Version	:	0.1
//	last changed	:	12.03.2005 - 08:24
//
//	Description		:	some string functions
// ========================================================================================
class EC_StrUtils extends Object;
 
// ========================================================================================
//	String Replacement
// ========================================================================================
simulated static final function StrReplace(out string Text, string OldString, string NewString)
{
	local int i;
	local string s;
 
	if ( Text == "" || OldString == "" )
		return;
 
	s = Text;
	Text = "";
	i = InStr(s, OldString);
	while(i != -1)
	{
		Text = Text $ Left(s, i) $ NewString;
		s = Mid(s, i + Len(OldString));
		i = InStr(s, OldString);
	}
	Text = Text $ s;
}
 
defaultproperties
{
}

Releases

Download: UFontMaterial (UT2003) (72 kB) v0.4

Download: UFontMaterial (UT2004) (83 kB) v0.5

Related Topics

• TrueTypeFontFactory

Discussion

Mychaeel: That's a pretty cool idea, actually...  :-)

SuperApe: Well done. I recommend this plug-in. :tup: