Yesterday I downloaded a super new demo, Font Creator by High-Logic, and i cracked open the Amarillo font to play with it. I am still in the midst of designing special characters (its time consuming) but I now have an Original Series friendly ship hull font to offer, anyone who wants to test it out. I have a complete character set of capital A-Z, duplicated as lower case A-Z (the lower case features the alternate versions of E and Z that differ from the real Trek versions) I also realize i need to include the alternate '7' that was used on "The Cage" Enterprise.. i just need to find somewhere to put it. I've corrected the slash (for shuttle registries), added a dash and fixed the period spacing. Right now, all I am doing is working on special characters with diaresis, acute, grave, tilde and circumflex, and adding symbols like colons, parenthesis, asterisk, ampersand and comma. Theres a few more punctuations i need to add too. http://captainmike.org/Stuff/FleetOS_demo.ttf Try it out.. here's a few samples I made:
[ May 09, 2002, 10:11: Message edited by: CaptainMike ]
Posted by The Red Admiral (Member # 602) on :
Cheers man, nice work, I'll try that out.....
Posted by YrdMehc (Member # 417) on :
I like....
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
Cool! Don't forget the alternate R and umlauts! How about Cyrillic letters?
Posted by Shik (Member # 343) on :
And the eth (� & �) & thorn (� & �)!
Oh, the first of both of those is the lowercase, the second the uppercase
Posted by Bernd (Member # 6) on :
Great! I will have to try that out. So far I used a combination of Amarillo and Arial for the missing characters.
Posted by MinutiaeMan (Member # 444) on :
Hey, that's nice work! Very close to the "real thing." Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
I already added an uppercase eth, and have the thorn on my drawing board... Cyrillic is going to wait until i learn more about fonts, i have to see where they go in the character table.. im going to try cracking open a unicode font to dissect it for my knowledge this weeked.
Posted by Anduril (Member # 654) on :
That looks very cool. I'll try to give it a shot in the next day or two as I've been working on a Galileo anyways.
Thanks
Posted by Woodside Kid (Member # 699) on :
The only little quibble I have is that on your "C" the open ends don't seem to project far enough. If I remember correctly, shouldn't they have a short vertical section up and down after the diagonal parts? (I'm not sure if this is making much sense, but I dont know the proper terminology to use.) The "C" on your test doesn't quite look the same as the lettering on the ship.
You are right about the program, however. It's a gem. A few years ago I wanted to convert Star Trek BT (the font used on the AMT model decals) into something more accurate, and I also wanted to remove the border outline from Starfleet Bold Extended (don't ask why). The only tool I had to use was CorelDraw, and I had to import one character at a time, over and over again. That was an exercise in tedium I don't wish to repeat!
Posted by CaptainMike (Member # 709) on :
argh.. despite my initial enthusiasm, i see that today my one month trial is almost expired, the the fonts on my drawing board largely unfinished... im actually considering paying for this one (unless i find a way to crack it...)
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Can you just reinstall it and get another month?
Posted by Obese Penguin (Member # 271) on :
Demos usually leave registry keys and such to detect prior installations.
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Some do. I don't know if they "usually" do, though.
Of course, you can usually find them and delete them.
Posted by AndrewR (Member # 44) on :
How do you find these registry files!?!
Posted by NeghVar (Member # 62) on :
If you are running Win2K (or WinXP I think), you will need to uninstall the program, then use a registry editor to delete the following keys:
Once you have deleted them, exit the registry editor and reinstall the program.
And you get another 30-60 days.
Later! Art
Posted by TSN (Member # 31) on :
Type "regedit" in the Run dialogue. Then you can edit the registry.
But don't do it if you don't know what you're doing. If you edit the wrong thing, you'll royally fuck your computer up.
Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
So...er... have any mac users had any luck getting Mike's font to work in OSX? It seems like there's two fonts in here the outline font for movie-era (Starfleet Bold Extended) and the blockletter TOS font (Starfleet Bold). Although I am able to import the font with Fontbook, I can only seem to get the bold extended variant to work.
Alternatively if anyone happens to have or knows where to get A) the TOS font (not merely Amarillo USAF, got that) or B) a share/free/ware font editor for Mac OS, I would love to hear from you...
Posted by Masao (Member # 232) on :
Charles Casimiro (whose Enterprise schematics are great) has a font called "Airborne" that's his version of the TOS font. http://home.earthlink.net/~casimiro/airborne.html Posted by Balaam Xumucane (Member # 419) on :
Thanks, Masao. I was eventually able to get FOS to work. I'm not sure what I did.
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