In reply to @_discord_399599648546750466:t2bot.io
yes 😃 and i saw that you have a discord server, so i joined. i love open source projects! and i'm interested in seeing what kind of specifications (size etc) you would recommend for fonts in this engine that i can keep in mind when creating more

The default quest size is 320x240, although it can be changed on a per-project basis. I'm using 256x144 for my game.

All of your fonts could be used with most Solarus projects. It's just that this decision needs to be made at the start of the project. Changing the font in the middle of development means you might have to edit every piece of dialog and change where the line-breaks are because the character sizes are different.

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cool! all very good to know. what about line height/space between lines? or can things like that be changed within the editor separately?

Solarus only handles "lines" of text when it actually draws them. For multi-line text we have to split it into individual lines and then define the XY coordinates of each line. I don't know very much about the ttf format and how that deals with stuff like line-height.

example code from one of my projects:

  do -- draw letter text
    local letter_text = sol.language.get_dialog("game.intro.letter").text
    local lines = get_lines(letter_text)
    for i, line in ipairs(lines) do
      local letter_gfx = sol.text_surface.create({font_size=16, text=line})
      local x = 8
      local y = i*13 - 3
      if i > 2 then -- HACK: second box of text needs a different padding
        y = y + 2
      end
      letter_gfx:draw(self.box_text, x, y)
    end
  end