Spidey's ZDoom Font Generator

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...so, what is it?

"Spidey's ZDoom Font Generator," or "doomfontgen," generates bitmaps from system fonts which can be converted for use in Doom engines supporting zdoom-style "font lumps." This can be done by using the utility "imagetool," which can be found at zdoom.org. (note: imagetool is now integrated and distributed with doomfontgen!)

This tool can create images suitable for "console fonts" (FON1) or "big fonts" (FON2). Images can be saved as high-color PNG (for editing) or paletted PCX (for direct import into imagetool). Images can also be saved directly as font lumps. Doomfontgen can also create "embedded" / STCFN* font images (several images , each representing a single character).

Supported Doom Engine Source Ports

This tool is compatible with the ZDoom, GZDoom, Skulltag and Vavoom source ports. If you know of other compatible ports, please let me know.

Embedded fonts are compatible with any port, including the original "vanilla" DOS versions of Doom.

Supported Font Types

Console fonts (FON1):

• Contain 256 characters of identical size arranged in a 16x16 grid.
• Contain a palette with index 0 representing transparency and indices 1 to 255 gradiating from dark to light.
• Imagetool ignores the palette's data and uses only the indices.

"Big fonts" (FON2):

• Have each character surrounded by a box made up of palette entry 255.
• Contain a palette with index 0 representing transparency.

"Embedded fonts" (STCFN*):

• Compatible with any source port.
• Each character is represented by a seperate image.
• These are not processed by imagetool. Use png transparency in a pk3 or let your wad editor set the transparency for you.