Previously, any font names requested by RGSS would be translated
directly to filenames by lowercasing and replacing spaces with
underscores (and finally doing some extension substitution).
To make this whole thing work smoother as well as get closer to
how font discovery is done in VX, we now scan the "Fonts/" folder
at startup and index all present font assets by their family name;
now, if an "Open Sans" font is present in "Fonts/", it will be
used regardless of filename.
Font assets with "Regular" style are preferred, but in their
absence, mkxp will make use of any other style it can find for
the respective family. This is not the exact same behavior as
VX, but it should cover 95% of use cases.
Previously, one could substitute fonts via filenames, ie. to
substitute "Arial" with "Open Sans", one would just rename
"OpenSans.ttf" to "arial.ttf" and put it in "Fonts/". With the
above change, this is no longer possible. As an alternative, one
can now explicitly specify font family substitutions via mkxp.conf;
eg. for the above case, one would add
fontSub=Arial>Open Sans
to the configuration file. Multiple such rules can be specified.
In the process, I also added the ability to provide
'Font.(default_)name' with an array of font families to search
for the first existing one instead of a plain string.
This makes the behavior closer to RMXP; however, it doesn't
work 100% the same: when a reference to the 'Font.name' array is
held and additional strings are added to it without re-assignig
the array to 'Font.name', those will be ignored.
This initial implementation emulates the way RMVX splits
the sprite into "chunks" of about 8 pixels, which it then
scrolls left/right on a vertical sine wave. It even
replicates the weird behavior when wave_amp < 0, namely
"shrinking" the src_rect horizontally.
As with bush_opacity, this effect in combination with
rotation will render differently from RMVX.
This gets rid of the "batch/flush" semantics for #set_pixel
and instead just directly uploads the pixel color to the
texture, circumventing the float conversion entirely.
Also makes a lot of code simpler in many places as calling
'flush()' is no longer required for bitmaps.
Any options that are not arrays (ie. RTP paths) specified
as command line options will override entries in mkxp.conf.
The syntax is: --<option>=<value>
Because Windows has case insensitive paths, this should
be turned on (which it is by default) for maximum
compatibility. Can be turned off as an optimization
(this will speed up startup a little depending on the
number of game assets).
Jonas Kulla
Edward Rudd