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The advanced font wizard
The advanced font wizard is the software module that allows you full customization of how your
saber looks and sounds. You can activate it using the “Font wizard” button on the “Diamond
Controller” tab.
Navigation
The font wizard guides you through all the steps that you need in order to
customize and write a font on the board. You can navigate through steps with
the “Previous” and “Next” buttons, but also using the navigation panel on the
left side of the wizard.
One feature that you might find useful is the ability to save and load an entire
font on your computer as a single file. A
.pfnt
file stores everything that
defines a font: sounds, light effects and gestures. On the first page of the
wizard (“Font Selection”) you’ll find the “Load” button and on the last page
(“Write Font”) you’ll find the “Save” button.
When creating a new font, it is often easier to start from a template rather than from scratch.
What you could do is to start by loading an existing font, one that is close to what you have in
mind, and then make changes to it. The Launcher comes with all the default Diamond fonts
preinstalled as .pfnt files – just press the “Load Font” button and you’ll find them.
Please note that “Load” and “Save” are operating with files on your computer, not on the internal memory
of the Diamond Controller! In order to write anything on the board, you need to press the “Write” button.
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