FONT (File Format)

Revision as of 05:49, 28 February 2015 by imported>Jackoalan (→‎Version)

The FONT format defines fonts that can be used to display text in-game.


To do:
Notate differences between different versions of the format. Only Metroid Prime's FONT version is documented at the moment. Character definition structure should be expanded on; there should be a section explaining what each value does, and it should be made more clear which UV coordinate corresponds to which vertex.
This file format needs more research
There's some unknowns in the header, and some of the values in the character definition structure should be double-checked.

Format

Header

Offset Size Description
0x0 4 "FONT" magic fourCC
0x4 4 Version; see below
0x8 4 Unknown
0xC 4 Unknown
0x10 4 Unknown
0x14 4 Unknown
0x18 4 Unknown
0x1C 4 Unknown
0x20 4 Unknown
0x24 N Font name; zero-terminated string
0x24+N 4 TXTR file ID
0x28+N 4 Unknown

Version

Version Game
1 Metroid Prime Kiosk Demo
2 Metroid Prime
4 Metroid Prime 2 (and demo), Metroid Prime Wii releases
5 Metroid Prime 3/DKCR

Character Definitions

This part of the file defines each character of the font. It starts with a 32-bit count value.

Offset Type Size Description
0x0 u16 2 UTF-16 character
0x2 float 4 Left UV coordinate
0x6 float 4 Top UV coordinate
0xA float 4 Right UV coordinate
0xE float 4 Bottom UV coordinate
0x12 u32 4 Glyph left padding
0x16 u32 4 Print head advance
0x1A u32 4 Glyph right padding
0x1E u32 4 Character width
0x22 u32 4 Character height
0x26 u32 4 Kerning index
0x2A End of character definition

Kerning Table

This table is at the end of the file, and defines kerning pairs. It starts with a 32-bit count value and then loops the following structure:

Offset Size Description
0x0 2 Character 1
0x2 2 Character 2
0x4 4 Kerning adjust
0x8 End of entry