Tomb Raider Forums  

Go Back   Tomb Raider Forums > Tomb Raider Series > Tomb Raider

Reply
 
Thread Tools
Old 10-05-18, 20:16   #11
TheLostSecret
Member
 
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 632
Thumbs up

The quality reduction of the fonts is related to graphical issues in TR1 . Anyway , thanks everyone .
TheLostSecret is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-05-18, 19:39   #12
Dustie
Member
 
Dustie's Avatar
 
Joined: Apr 2005
Posts: 9,208
Default

Quote:
Originally Posted by fallenangle View Post
Good work and certainly better than anything I found but still, obviously, not a close match and neither it or the 'similar' fonts have any lower case letters.

The outlining of the font is maybe just embellishment. If you look at screen shots of the inventory and zoom in on the fonts it is an odd mixture. The outlining seems to be a darker green but only applied to top and sides. There are black drop shadows but there is great inconsistency in their application.

With numbers the drop shadows are at the bottom of the character but with some letters it is to the right or left barely distinguishable from the green 'outlining'. With other letters, like the upper case H you can just about see shadows of both feet above the bottom of the character.

Maybe it is just a resolution matter and the fine detail has gone missing or is distorted in the screen grabs but whatever the cause it makes identifying the underlying font difficult.
I really think it's a custom made font. I wouldn't be surprised if it turned out they did it by hand, I mean put each pixel down on the image manually...
Dustie is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 15-05-18, 23:31   #13
fallenangle
Member
 
fallenangle's Avatar
 
Joined: Apr 2006
Posts: 2,139
Default

Very likely that is what happened. But, as said, it seems a bit mad to do it in terms of time wasted and consequent additional cost when they could have used an off the shelf commercial font. Customising that, adding outlines, shadows, textures and colour to make it more unique and Tomb Raider-y could still have been done.
fallenangle is offline   Reply With Quote
Old 16-05-18, 18:58   #14
TheLostSecret
Member
 
Joined: Mar 2018
Posts: 632
Red face

I really can't find out why in the old times , they used to use some bad graphical fonts for the game ... I don't know the reason . Perhaps , they could add a little bit of shading or outlining to the characters , couldn't they ?
TheLostSecret is offline   Reply With Quote
Reply

Thread Tools

Posting Rules
You may not post new threads
You may not post replies
You may not post attachments
You may not edit your posts

BB code is On
Smilies are On
[IMG] code is On
HTML code is Off



All times are GMT. The time now is 22:27.


Powered by vBulletin® Version 3.8.11
Copyright ©2000 - 2024, vBulletin Solutions Inc.
Tomb Raider Forums is not owned or operated by CDE Entertainment Ltd.
Lara Croft and Tomb Raider are trademarks of CDE Entertainment Ltd.