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Font license

by A A · in Torque Game Engine · 01/03/2009 (11:53 am) · 3 replies

Hello,

I would like to know if I can use the fonts, avilable in TGE, in a game I am working on. Does the TGE license includes using the game engine fonts for free?

Thanks

Amit
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Torque Owner Mike Rowley
Mike Rowley
#1
01/03/2009 (2:41 pm)
Quote:Does the TGE license includes using the game engine fonts for free?
Yes as long as you are using tge.

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
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#2
01/03/2009 (4:36 pm)
From what I recall of an old discussion years ago on here TGE will generate font files on the Windows OS that are available to general Windows applications and then caches them in the TGE/common/ui/cache directory and that on other OSs at the time (Mac OS X and Linux) TGE was unable to do the same thing, so instead on those OSs the cached font files must exist else you'll get an error or no text would render for an non-existent cached font.

So the fonts that TGE uses aren't a special font that garagegames provided, but instead are just TGE specific cached font data. I don't know if TGE was ever updated to use system fonts available on Mac OS X or Linux, I just know it works on Windows just fine.

Torque Owner Nathan Martin
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#3
01/03/2009 (4:40 pm)
OK here are some examples of previous documentation and discussions on the matter:
tdn.garagegames.com/wiki/GUI/Fonts/New_Fonts
Creating new fonts for Torque