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Adding custom glyphs

AlexWaveDiver edited this page Feb 22, 2016 · 1 revision

Adding glyphs to a font - by Epic3lite

And putting them to use in undertale

This is one looong ride, so buckle up cuz you're gonna be here for a while :)

  1. Get FontForge (its free :))
  2. Follow the glyph repack instructions in TranslaTale (here)
  3. Start up GameMaker Studio and FontForge
  4. In GameMaker find & open the UTFonts file you downloaded from the glyph repack wizard (should look like this)
  5. Open the Fonts folder and Double-click the font you wanna edit and start typing in your special characters. If they appear in the same style as the font, great you can skip to step 9 (you might wanna increase the size of the font to make it easier to see but remember to put the original font size back!)
  6. If they do not appear in the same style then go to fontforge and find the font (In C:/Windows/Fonts and usually called the same name as the font*)
  7. Now It's time to get creative: Find the letters you want to add and copy the style of the font to your new characters: For example I'll make the ũ character.
  8. Try to copy as much as you can from the original font (Unless you are making something like Russian / Japanese characters it shouldn't be too hard) In my ũ example I can copy the u from the alphabet and the ~ from the ñ character already there. If you need more help google fontforge tutorials.
  9. [Open the font in fontforge and] Look for the last letter that you need in your font and click on it. Look at the number of the character and remember it / write it down somewhere, we will need it later.
  10. Once you're done making the characters change the font name unless you want to override the original font (here then here)
  11. Generate a .ttf version of the font and install it.
  12. Go back to GameMaker and open up the font again. Select the new font, if you made a new one and test out your brand new characters. If everything works, they should look just like you made them.
  13. Remember that number i was talking about in step 9? Click the plus and type that number in here
  14. Repeat steps 5 to 13 for all the fonts
  15. Make an application installer and install it so it can generate a data.win file.
  16. Use the glyph / project repack wizard from TranslaTale to get a data.win for undertale, and replace the new data.win with the one already in undertale.
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