Thursday, February 22, 2007

How to do some special stuff that is quite useless...


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...But can look interesting and provide for some witty banter. To change your in game font, go to this website here. You can pick what font you want out of c:windows/fonts. I used the comic book font and found it to be cool.. you will note it in the picture above. Note it doesn't change all fonts, just mainly windows and chat lines.

As for symbols...After much research and some help from a nice fellow with a global of Celz in Triumph I figured out the issues I had. I was attempting to copy a unicode "picture" (most likely a jpeg or such) and it wasn't taking. I tried downloading some free fonts to copy from and found them to be "exotic" i.e. the game wouldn't recognize them. Going to the start page and hitting charmap.exe in the Run bar worked but had very limited characters and you had to hit or miss which ones would work in-game. So I researched unicodes and found there are many websites with the characters and the codes, usually 4 letter/number combos. You can open up Microsoft Word, type in the 4 letter/number combo and then hit the alt button and the x key at the same time and they transfer to the symbol. Then highlight the symbol and hit control +c button. Go to in game and paste via control +v. The game takes any working unicode symbol when done that way.

2 comments:

Azrhiaz said...

Neat!! I imagine that only works in your windows on your machines however. If someone else did not have that particular font on their machine, it would default to the default. :)

DB has a rad/rad specialist, look out!!

Baba Kanoosh said...

Yup Bull's Eye Beetle was made for one reason..the Debt Brigades break glass for AVs/GMs. Floks I have been hanging out in Sirens working on my CoV badge there and I have seen some serious whoopings given in pvp with Rads. We already know what they do vs. NPCs. So I am going to work on him some more after I level Planty Man up a notch or two on CoV. (Need him in game shape for DB vs DB event).

As for font changes... yup they are only seen by you, the User as Tron would say. But the symbols are for all to see.