Victor Sfonts as Default font?

[The Mighty Palm]

So an issue I constantly seem to have while using this very useful script, is that there are a bunch of other scripts out there that insist on using the "default" font instead of my bitmap font.

This is jarring, and ugly and I wanna fix it.

So what I want to ask is: Is there a way to set Font.Defaultname or whatever to be the Victor Sfont bitmap font?

 

[HexMozart88]

I think for those scripts, you'll have to manually put in that you want to use that font. Firstly, what script are you using for that battle system?

 

[The Mighty Palm]

It's the default Ace battle system
Using Moghunter's Battle Hud EX for the layout.

Edit: Also Victor's Actor Battlers is where the Sideview chars are coming from but that's irrelevant as it has nothing to do with the script that displays the font incorrectly.

also for a bit of extra detail

I have ALL_SFONT set to true, but there are just some scripts that are setting their own fonts and overriding it.

It says you can manually add it into the code, but it does not tell you how to go about doing so and I cannot find any information on how to do it anywhere.

 

[Andar]

that is because you basically have to manually rewrite the code of the other scripts to change the display.
Bitmap fonts work entirely different than regular fonts, requiring a replacement of the function to draw the letter, not a replacement of the font properties. That means you have to look through all other scripts to find the places where they call any text functions that are not yet redirected, and then rewrite that code to be redirected to the bitmap font script.

That requires programming knowledge, and if you have that knowledge the change is easy to find (which is why it isn't better explained there.
But without at least a basic programming knowledge you can't make those compatibility changes, no matter how good a description you get - that is why you won't find a better description on how to manually add the code.

 

[The Mighty Palm]

Well that makes sense, disappointing but understandable.

So what are the options. Give me some solutions if the one I suggested isn't feasible.

 

[Andar]

there is no easy solution, or I would have mentioned it.

Your choices are only to either
1) remove the scripts that do not use the bitmap font, so that all displays are again using the bitmap fonts, but at the price of not adding those scripts' functions
2) keep the mixed display, even if it looks bad
3) remove the bitmap font script to switch everything to the regular font way
4) have compatibility patches written for every script that is not compatible

And since Ace is now Legacy and most scripters switched to MV and because such compatibility patches are rather tedious to write, the fourth option means that you would either have to learn to program yourself, or trade/pay someone for that work. I consider it rather unlikely that someone would do that for you for free.

 

[The Mighty Palm]

I actually do have someone (a couple of people really) I can ask to do it for me if I need to.

The reason I sought a solution that I could do myself (not an "easy" solution, I dont expect this stuff to be easy) was so that I wouldnt have to bother them with it if it was unneccesary.

Thanks for the info

 

[Sixth]

It is actually very easy to change the draw methods in every script.
If something is using the default draw method for texts, that will use either the draw_text or draw_text_ex method.
The only thing you need to do is to search for these methods in your custom scripts and replace them with the drawing method from Victor's script.
You have to set the correct argument values at the correct argument positions, but aside from that, it is not much of a hassle to do.

 

[The Mighty Palm]

@Sixth Bless you you beautiful son of a gun.
It works perfectly. Can't thank you enough. Was super easy to understand.

I guess this is solved then. Shut it down boys.