Font Question (VX Ace)

[Michio]

Hey everyone,

I want to swap out the entire font for my game.
I did a quick check on how to change fonts and got my answer here:
https://forums.rpgmakerweb.com/index.php?threads/font-change.5654/

...But it seems RPG maker VX Ace only recognises some fonts and not others.
For example, "Cooper Black" shows up nicely, but "High Tower Text Regular" just displays the default font.

Is this a software limitation or is there a way around this? Any pointers would be appreciated.

 

[Andar]

It's most likely because there are two slightly different definitions of the truetype font formats and VXA can handle only one of them.
If I remember correctly, the truetype format was originally developed for the Atari ST computer series (long before the IBM PC), and later adapted by both Apple and Microsoft.
However, Microsoft changed the definition a bit when implementing TrueType for the first Windows versions, that is why some fonts that claim to be truetype were not recognized by the other OS's (Atari and Apple).

additionally
[move]VX Ace Support[/move]
VX and VXA are two different makers

 

[Michio]

Thank you so much Andar!

In that case I'll experiment and see if there's a font I like that'll show up.

And apologies for posting in the wrong thread, I must've thought "A" stood for "Ace".

 

[Roninator2]

One thing to remember as well ( I forgot myself a while ago ), is that the name of the file is not always the name of the font.

 

[Michio]

Thank you so much! That fixed my problem. Some of them still don't work, but there's a bunch I can now use if I've got the font name right.