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Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 01, 2003, 12:03:00 PM

Hey guys, im making my first skin right now, but i have a lttle problem.Where can i get the matrix font? and im not talking about this one
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http://simplythebest.net/fonts/fonts/matrix.html

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But rather the one that the names are written when they have to write things in the movie.When they wrote" Everything that has a beginning had an end" in the revolutions...

Plz help me out! ;)

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: BenJeremy on December 01, 2003, 12:16:00 PM

You mean the symbols font that rains down?

I created the one that's built into MXM, which has a complete alpha-numeric set (yes, I actually created the TrueType font, using CorelDraw).

It's available internally, I just can't recall, at the moment, what the 'internal' filename is.

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 01, 2003, 01:05:00 PM

no im not talking about the code falling down, talking about a readable text, much like the code, but where you can read what is written.sSjYoShI found me 1 type that looks kinda the real thing, its named dotmatrx.

If you guys have other font, juste reply!

Thanks!

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: geniusalz on December 02, 2003, 06:39:00 PM

(IMG:http://whatisthematrix.warnerbros.com/rl_img/matrix_imax_small.jpg)

Do u mean the "Reload in IMAX" font?

This post has been edited by geniusalz: Dec 3 2003, 03:26 AM

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 03, 2003, 08:18:00 AM

yeah dude its this exactly!!!!!!!

Can it ever be found anywhere?

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: BenJeremy on December 03, 2003, 08:56:00 AM

QUOTE (Lonecrow @ Dec 3 2003, 12:11 PM)

yeah dude its this exactly!!!!!!! Can it ever be found anywhere?

Well, that was the internal font I was referring to. It's got the falling symbols **AND** the alphanumeric "OCR" characters.

You can access the font by using a font name of "def_matrix" - no need to specify anything in the Resources. (Hmmm... I don't think I ever documented that)

Give it a whirl - it may not be complete, but it doesn't hurt to check it out.  

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 03, 2003, 09:23:00 AM

ok fine ill try it this afternoon and give you news about it, geniusalz, if you still can find it, id lke to have it anyway!

Thanks!

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: geniusalz on December 03, 2003, 09:30:00 AM

I tried it out, and it works, but there's a few characters missing.  So if BJ could post his coreldraw files (and ttf files), someone might wanna finish off the font.

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 04, 2003, 10:04:00 AM

Hey geniusalz, ive tried this and it didnt work, am i wrong somewhere?

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- <Resource Type="Font" Name="Arial">   <File>Fontsarial_10.xpr</File>   </Resource> - <Resource Type="Font" Name="Zero3">   <File>FontsZero_Threes_15.xpr</File>

so it looks like this:

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- <Resource Type="Font" Name="Matrix">   <File>def_matrix.xpr</File>   </Resource> - <Resource Type="Font" Name="Matrix">   <File>def_matrix.xpr</File>

in my mxm_skin.xml

but nothing has changed, its still the default font (which looks like arial or times new roman)

can you tell me what you have changed?

thanks a lot as always!

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: geniusalz on December 04, 2003, 10:09:00 AM

QUOTE (BenJeremy @ Dec 3 2003, 01:49 PM)

You can access the font by using a font name of "def_matrix" - no need to specify anything in the Resources. (Hmmm... I don't think I ever documented that)

So no resources.
Just
<Text Source="CGTitle" Font="def_matrix">
...
</Text>

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: BenJeremy on December 04, 2003, 10:29:00 AM

QUOTE (geniusalz @ Dec 3 2003, 01:23 PM)

I tried it out, and it works, but there's a few characters missing.  So if BJ could post his coreldraw files (and ttf files), someone might wanna finish off the font.

I'll see about doing that. I added quite a few characters, I guess I didn't get them all  

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 06, 2003, 02:25:00 PM

yeah BJ, it would sure be fine, i would like to write some things on my menu.png with this font, if you could post your ttf, it would be damn appreciated.

i can pay you if you want, but i need this font real bad!

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: BenJeremy on December 06, 2003, 03:48:00 PM

Here

It's the font it's based off of, OCR A

Title: Matrix Font
Post by: Lonecrow on December 07, 2003, 05:47:00 AM

ho BJ, that is soooooo Wonderfull!!!
exactly like i needed!!

thanks pal, you are awesome!

see ya!