Cabin/Display3-narrow fonts dissonance

[half-lifeer]

With the original Display3-narrow.fnt / .tex and the custom Cabin.fnt / .tex, nicknames in the game display normally, and the text rendered through Cabin.fnt / .tex has an appropriate size.

When replacing Display3-narrow.fnt / .tex with a custom one, the text rendered through Cabin.fnt / .tex has its characters scaled up to large sizes in the game. Given that the custom Display3-narrow.fnt / .tex is larger than 512×256, the characters in the game become huge, and the Cabin.fnt / .tex font scales up along with this character expansion. Even a fully filled 256×256 texture for Display3-narrow increases the size of the characters rendered by Cabin.fnt / .tex.

Also, if you make the texture for Display3-narrow too small, the characters rendered by Cabin.fnt / .tex shrink.

We need to break the dependency between Cabin.fnt / .tex and Display3-narrow, otherwise it's impossible to make them independent fonts from each other.

At the same time, if you replace the Display3-normal font with a custom one that has a 1024×1024 texture, the text and characters will compress properly in the game to a reasonable size.

Here is my Display3-narrow.fnt / .tex with a 512×256 texture. It drastically increases the size of what Cabin.fnt / .tex renders, and it itself renders very large in the game—whereas with Display3-normal it's completely different, and if the same texture were used for it, it would render normally.

Fonts link: https://litter.catbox.moe/benb9t.zip

[half-lifeer]

Also, I noticed that in patch 1.50 the font was replaced, and it started displaying properly — it no longer gets compressed. If you replace Display3-narrow with any font, even a pixel one that doesn't blur, it still gets compressed and pixelated in the game. It feels like the Display3-narrow font itself is handled by the game differently from all the others, and this is a problem with the text containers for this font.

This is my own font, and it also looks compressed.

[DreamyCecil]

I haven't checked the provided font myself but what issue are you exactly complaining about here? If it's the fact that the font becomes blurry - that's normal because it gets scaled up with bigger screen resolutions. This happens with the default fonts too but you may not notice it as much because you got used to them.

All fonts are treated and rendered the exact same way across the engine. The only differences between them is the underlying resolution of the texture with all the characters and the scale factor used for rendering the fonts at any point.

And in 1.50 they've recreated the fonts using higher resolution texture sheets, partially because of the new font system in the engine that required new fonts for testing and whatnot. If you want to increase quality of your custom fonts, you have to create them based on a higher resolution texture (i.e. 1024x1024) instead of the same low resolution as the original font that you're replacing.

[half-lifeer]

If I make a font with a 1024x1024 texture and replace Display3-narrow with it, it will still get blurry and the letters will become large. Moreover, not only the places where Display3-narrow is used, but also the places where the Cabin font is used. Why is it that when I replace a font with a 2048x2048 texture, for example Display3-caps, the letters are high quality in the menu, but specifically only the places with Display3-narrow text get blurred?

Here you can see the Cabin font (frags left / score) and my other Display3-narrow font (shotgun taken).

Also Display3-narrow texture (this large fonts texture work good for Display3-normal placeholders, but not for Display3-narrow):

How this font looks in the menu (Display3-normal):

[DreamyCecil]

Well, okay, you should've described it this way from the beginning then.