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mastermind
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posted July 20, 2014 08:09 PM |
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Font from Heroes of Might and Magic 1/2
Hi! Currently I'm working on open source engine for Heroes of Might and Magic 1 and 2 and I'm trying to find True Type font similar to original. Can someone help me?
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kko
Hired Hero
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posted July 20, 2014 11:31 PM |
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have you tried here? https://www.google.com/fonts
Those fonts are free to use
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mastermind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 21, 2014 10:38 AM |
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kko said:
have you tried here? https://www.google.com/fonts
Those fonts are free to use
Thanks for the link, but I can't find the font similar to original
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orzie
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted July 21, 2014 05:36 PM |
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Edited by orzie at 18:00, 21 Jul 2014.
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There is only the ripped graphics from HMM1-HMM2, with the every letter as separate file. If you want, I can send it to you.
I guess no one compiled those letters as Windows font, because this font has a specific color scheme.
I'm gonna create a similar font for Heroes 3 for my project, but that's still not useful to you I guess.
By the way, why new open source engine? FreeHeroes does already exist - won't it be more conscious to develop this engine further? It lacks a good AI currently.
FreeHeroes font is available, but it's far from the original H1-2 ones.
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mastermind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 22, 2014 09:08 AM |
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orzie said:
There is only the ripped graphics from HMM1-HMM2, with the every letter as separate file. If you want, I can send it to you.
Thanks, but I've already reversed data format and have written resource manager. Currently I'm using original bitmap font, but I want to use TrueType font with all special characters to support localization. May be I will find someone who can make this font from original...
orzie said:
By the way, why new open source engine? FreeHeroes does already exist - won't it be more conscious to develop this engine further? It lacks a good AI currently.
FreeHeroes font is available, but it's far from the original H1-2 ones.
Andrey made a great job working on fheroes2, I've seen this project deep inside and even send him one patch 
But I want to create my own engine, test some my ideas. My vision of game strongly differs from Andrey's work. Also my engine will support both homm1 and homm2 while fheroes2 supports only homm2.
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Orzie
Responsible
Supreme Hero
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posted July 22, 2014 10:39 AM |
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Edited by Orzie at 10:42, 22 Jul 2014.
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I could draw this font from scratch if I knew how to make TTF fonts But all the reliable instruments are not free ($$).
As for the game fonts, I was able to find only Mortal Kombat font in TTF. Wish H2 was more popular - it could also gain a fan capable of making fonts.
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mastermind
Tavern Dweller
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posted July 22, 2014 11:07 AM |
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Orzie said:
I could draw this font from scratch if I knew how to make TTF fonts But all the reliable instruments are not free ($$).
As for the game fonts, I was able to find only Mortal Kombat font in TTF. Wish H2 was more popular - it could also gain a fan capable of making fonts.
Actually, there is no need in TTF font. I can be in any format even in bmp, the main requirement is to contain all locale-specific symbols such as cyrrillic, east europeand and so on. I have resources from official russian edition, so it's not a big deal for good desinger/font maker.
May be some day I will do it for myself, but for today I have more important tasks to make game playable
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