johny smith
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Well I did not test it all way through for the others yet. But here is what I had just at the start. So really don't know beyond that.
Font Problems
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deanej
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The way I've been testing the other icons is to raise the population to level 10-15 in world builder, where extreme unhealthiness/unhappiness abound. The other font problems seem to only show up in World Builder, for some reason. I fixed the tech font one.
Could someone else have a look? If the community works together, I'm sure the solution will come.
Could someone else have a look? If the community works together, I'm sure the solution will come.
isau
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I have seen this problem lots of times. It is caused by alpha channels that overlap the magenta lines or magenta lines that are not 100% magenta, among other things. The game is very, very, very particular about these two issues. If you have a single pixel that is off, the fonts file will break. I highly getting a file you know works, zoom in very close, and transporting your new font over piece by piece. From the look of it, its the regular fonts file and not fonts-75 that's broken. To test fonts-75, roll over your leader flag and read the trait text.
deanej
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Is there any way to tell at-a-glance what the exact problem is? I've tried repainting the magenta lines around changed areas and trimming the alpha channel way back to make sure it's not in a bad area, but the file is still broken. I never had a working GameFont.tga file with my religion icon changes, and converting from either a base epic game font or a Final Frontier file is not really an option as there are too many changes between Final Frontier and the epic game, some of which I need to restore (commerce icons, great people, power), some of which I need to keep (resources). Unfortunately, I'm not a graphics expert and I only really know how to make buttons. I don't know what program Firaxis uses to make these files, but whatever it is I'd love to have it, as it appears to make editing these files child's play.
deanej
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Any idea on how to diagnose a file? It's not the magenta lines, it's not the alpha channel, what could it possibly be? I checked both - changing them does not help at all. I'll ask again - do I need special software? With DXTBMP and Photoshop Elements, the main file and the alpha channel are worked as two separate files, making it impossible to diagnose problems. What can I do? I don't have a working file!
micmc
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if it comes to it, install the game into a non-default directory and just pluck what you need from the "spare" which will at least bring you back to square 1, and you can go step by step to see where the problem is. once you need to do that 2 or 3 times *whistles innocenty at himself* you learn to heed the warnings to make back ups. 
deanej
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Well, I have backups, it's just that I never had one of mine completely work. I've had font-related issues in the mod ever since I added the religions to it. I have the default game fonts as well as the ones for Final Frontier, but there are just so many changes and I don't know how I would make the alpha channel line up properly. In fact, I tried re-doing it. It didn't work. I'm really not a graphics guy.
