It would be great if there was an option to choose whether you wanted to use Bitmap fonts (e.g. in fonts/default.png) or a lwjgl loaded font. LWJGL, which minecraft uses, has libraries that support truetype font loading (e.g.http://lwjgl.org/wiki/index.php?title=Slick-Util_Library_-_Part_3_-_TrueType_Fonts_for_LWJGL). This would allow the people who like minecraft as it is to leave it as it is (default) and keep the blocky, awkward, painful font that is in place; but also to support using system-supported fonts with proper kerning and smoothing for those who can't make out the letter shapes that easily (like me).
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If I'm not mistaken, the fonts used for Minecraft, all depend on the texture pack, so everybody would see it differently,
Unless they made some kind of font support, Which I don't think is a necessity at the moment, but some kind of font support, would need a re-wright for a part of the code (if you haven't already seen, the font is in the picture, where the GUI Pictures are, so you would need to re-wright that, and with the adventure update, there might be some problems, but again, it would be something nice to play with, even if it only changes for you
why yes, the font is at the moment part of the texture pack. so that is why my suggestion is that you can either use the font that is built in (e.g. fonts/default.png in minecraft.jar) or re-code the game or mod the game in order to allow non-bitmap fonts (e.g. those used in texture packs) and use, instead, a proper ttf loaded font that is not part of the texture pack that draws to the screen using the normal font rendering routines built into LWJGL and Java.
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No, I will not subscribe to your channel because you asked... but I might if it's *good*.
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Unless they made some kind of font support, Which I don't think is a necessity at the moment, but some kind of font support, would need a re-wright for a part of the code (if you haven't already seen, the font is in the picture, where the GUI Pictures are, so you would need to re-wright that, and with the adventure update, there might be some problems, but again, it would be something nice to play with, even if it only changes for you
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It’s the unpleasantness of the system that keeps me out.
I’d rather be in, in a good system. That’s where my discontent comes from:
being forced to choose to stay outside.
My advice: Just keep movin’ straight ahead.
Every now and then you find yourself in a different place."
-George Carlin