Font Editing
Requirements
-A Windows PC
-A program that can edit/replace .tpl
image files (I'd recommend BrawlBox, download here)
-BRFNT2TPL (download here)
-An image editor
-A program that can view .brfnt
font files (I'd recommend BRFNTify Next, download here)
-Your .brfnt
font files
Tutorial
Step 1
Drag and drop your .brfnt
file into the BRFNT2TPL.EXE
file. When it's finished, you'll get a .tpl
file (which are the images), and a .vbfta
file (the file used to store the informations of the .brfnt
file, which is necessary to reconvert the .tpl
image back to .brfnt
format).
NOTE: To prevent your .brfnt
file from being corrupted during reconversion:
- The images in the
.tpl
file must have the same width and height. - The images in the
.tpl
file must use the same image format (and an image format that isn't palette based). - The images in the
.tpl
file must not be compressed in any way. - The
.tpl
file image count must not change. - The
.tpl
file must not have mipmaps. Use the latest version of BrawlBox to show the correct mipmaps, as older versions may show an incorrect number.
Step 2
Open the .tpl
file in BrawlBox and export the .tpl
texture images to .png
format, then edit them with your image editor.
Step 3
In BrawlBox, replace each of the texture images of the .tpl
file with the .png
files you edited, and click Okay
. Then save your changes.
Step 4
Select the .tpl
file and the .vbfta
file (of your .brfnt
font) and drag them both into the BRFNT2TPL.EXE
file to reconvert the .tpl
file back to .brfnt
format.
Step 5
To preview your changes and to make sure your .brfnt
file isn't corrupted, in BRFNTify Next, click File
--> Open...
, and select your newly-modified .brfnt
file to preview it.