Week 5 Contest table part Deux!

[faralos]

Here is this weeks shot of the contest table (between me and Itchigo from vpf.org) I had the most unusual scoring problem. Turns out some fonts score oddly with certain table skeletons! so custom builders beware some fonts will NOT work correctly on certain table skeletons! The contest ends Thursday (thanksgiving here in the USA).

 

[Wizards_Hat]

so custom builders beware some fonts will NOT work correctly on certain table skeletons!

lol - yeah...that'll be the table skeletons that tell you THREE times in the script to use a specific font :)

Regards,
Dan.

 

[faralos]

I thought that was just for effect, like a certain theme. Not that one font should work but not another. I still think that's odd.

 

[Wizards_Hat]

It's not really that odd if you think about it.

A font is like a menu - number 15 on the menu in McDonalds, may be nothing like number 15 on the menu at The Hilton.

With a font, each character is assigned to a particular code (or number) - in the table skeleton you are using, the Williams Pinball font is specifically used to put commas every 3 numbers in a score. e.g. it changes 1234567 into 1,234,567. To do this it uses the fact that the Williams font contains "1" and "1," etc as separate characters - most other fonts don't have that, so you're calling up some random character if you use another font (in the Williams font "1," is being used instead of "Latin A with acute", and "2," instead of "Latin A with circumflex, etc)
...in my previous analogy McDonalds menu item 15 might be a cheeseburger, and if you went into the Hilton and blindly ordered number 15 would you really be surprised when it wasn't a cheeseburger?

Not trying to patronise you here, just trying to make you understand why it specifies that font.

Regards,
Dan.

 

[faralos]

ok that is a good explanation of it, thanks again Dan! I will remember from now on that certain fonts will NOT work on certain tables at all due to that.

 

[bob]

I think Chris' skeleton table is the only one like that. I used it on the original Three Stooges table, but I have since removed most of that stuff from the table. I try not to use any text boxes anymore, they just don't work with everyone using different resolutions to play a table.

 

[faralos]

That is why I never even thought it could be a font. I've used numerous other table skeletons and never had that problem before!