Fonts in Kitely and Opensim for dynamic textures
Posted: Sat Nov 21, 2015 10:46 pm
Request to support more fonts for dynamic textures in Kitely:
One of the nice featurtes of opensim is the option to create textures on the go - including text.
While most of the osSet... comands work nicely in Kitely there is one deficit with regard to fonts:
Setting font with osSetFontName works - but there are nearly no fonts!
Most other grids in opensim - like e.g. osGrid, Metro and Craft support at least a small selection of more fancy fonts.
Kitely currently obviously only some (very boring ones):
FontNames that work are:
Bitstream Vera Serif
Times New Roman
Utopia
Fontnames that work additionally in all tested other opensim grids:
Zapf Chancery
Comic Sans MS
Impact
Andale Mono
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Courier
Courier New
Interestingly some of those had worked in KItely previously, when I created my boards. But they stopped working some time back - probably when moving servers.
Ilan, Oren - it should not be a big deal to add some fancy fonts to the options in KItely - at least the ones that work everywhere should also be available in Kitely.
For creating good looking signs, boards, guestbooks etc. this is a must.
I'd even encourage to put more than so far in opensim in oder to allow more kalligraphic design of text in signs etc.
Below I show the results with my font-analyzer - first in other opensim and below in Kitely.
One of the nice featurtes of opensim is the option to create textures on the go - including text.
While most of the osSet... comands work nicely in Kitely there is one deficit with regard to fonts:
Setting font with osSetFontName works - but there are nearly no fonts!
Most other grids in opensim - like e.g. osGrid, Metro and Craft support at least a small selection of more fancy fonts.
Kitely currently obviously only some (very boring ones):
FontNames that work are:
Bitstream Vera Serif
Times New Roman
Utopia
Fontnames that work additionally in all tested other opensim grids:
Zapf Chancery
Comic Sans MS
Impact
Andale Mono
Bitstream Vera Sans Mono
Courier
Courier New
Interestingly some of those had worked in KItely previously, when I created my boards. But they stopped working some time back - probably when moving servers.
Ilan, Oren - it should not be a big deal to add some fancy fonts to the options in KItely - at least the ones that work everywhere should also be available in Kitely.
For creating good looking signs, boards, guestbooks etc. this is a must.
I'd even encourage to put more than so far in opensim in oder to allow more kalligraphic design of text in signs etc.
Below I show the results with my font-analyzer - first in other opensim and below in Kitely.