Unicode support in VCMP

[ysc3839]

I'm trying to wirte a plugin that hooks VCMP's draw text function to make VCMP supports Unicode. And I will open the source code after I finished.
Now I wonder if this is allowed? @Stormeus

[Murdock]

As long you won't show how to actually inject other dll files in the game or make it possible for someone to load a different file, because that wouldn't be appreciated.

Not speaking on behalf of Stormeus, just giving my opinion

[KakaroT]

As long you won't show how to actually inject other dll files in the game or make it possible for someone to load a different file, because that wouldn't be appreciated.

Not speaking on behalf of Stormeus, just giving my opinion

Yes. Or we gonna have bunch of more hacks right after you show how to do it.

[Thijn]

I'm wondering how you plan on sending the chat to the server and keep clients without the plugin compatible.

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I'm wondering how you plan on sending the chat to the server and keep clients without the plugin compatible.

Ha, that's going to be a tall wall.

[ysc3839]

As long you won't show how to actually inject other dll files in the game or make it possible for someone to load a different file, because that wouldn't be appreciated.

Not speaking on behalf of Stormeus, just giving my opinion

Do you mean you want me to tell you how this plugin inject into the game? Currently this plugins is unfinished, I use a loader write by myself to test it. I will find a good way for users in the future.

[ysc3839]

I'm wondering how you plan on sending the chat to the server and keep clients without the plugin compatible.

I haven't considered typing Unicode char. Just show Unicode char. And it's really a big problem when clients haven't installed the plugin. I think server can let users change the language.

[Stormeus]

I got the font bitmap from VCMP. You can see "á é í ó ú ä ë ï ö ü" in it. Why not support them?

Because the client uses the Windows-1252 codepage for the font bitmap whereas the server does not uses CP1252 so the server's character mappings won't map to the client's if we don't restrict everything to ANSI.

Kindly do not do this. Full Unicode is a tall order in itself and there are many characters in it which can break text rendering entirely and probably fuck up the server.

[ysc3839]

I got the font bitmap from VCMP. You can see "á é í ó ú ä ë ï ö ü" in it. Why not support them?

Because the client uses the Windows-1252 codepage for the font bitmap whereas the server does not uses CP1252 so the server's character mappings won't map to the client's if we don't restrict everything to ANSI.

Kindly do not do this. Full Unicode is a tall order in itself and there are many characters in it which can break text rendering entirely and probably fuck up the server.

I want to have a try.

[Stormeus]

Go for it, if you somehow get it to work on all fronts then I'd be impressed, though even if it does work it would definitely not be the ideal approach.

[ysc3839]

Go for it, if you somehow get it to work on all fronts then I'd be impressed, though even if it does work it would definitely not be the ideal approach.

Thanks for you understanding!

[KAKAN]

Go for it, if you somehow get it to work on all fronts then I'd be impressed, though even if it does work it would definitely not be the ideal approach.

Yeah, that would be great if we add Unicode support in VCMP. We can add different languages

[Stormeus]

Go for it, if you somehow get it to work on all fronts then I'd be impressed, though even if it does work it would definitely not be the ideal approach.

Yeah, that would be great if we add Unicode support in VCMP. We can add different languages

We'd mostly have to redo the way that we draw text since we're currently just using bitmaps, and a Unicode bitmap would be gigantic — too big to store in memory. There'd also be some really annoying netcode changes.

It wouldn't be impossible; I've tried experimenting with FreeType but I've yet to get that working.

[ysc3839]

The first screenshot!
Also I wonder hot to make it like VCMP's text.

[Anik]

Will you add all kind of languages?