Smooth Font

*** This is a test version. This version may be not stable. ***

v2.0-alpha-1

Main new features and improvements

• Improved autosizing feature.
  Most of fonts will be automatically ajusted to more appropriate size.
• Transforming width of fonts narrowly or widely.
  Font width of MC default charset and unicode charset can be transformed independently.
• Asynchronous mod initialization.
  Reduce startup time by initializing this mod concurrently with the initialization of other mods by multithreading.
• New character width error correction.
  Layout of characters become more precise in extended font renderers configured to non-high precision mode for compatibility of text width. In other words, this feature achieves both quasi-high precision text layout and high compatibility of text width calculation for mods using extended font renderers.
• Reduced VRAM usage to 1/4 when using system fonts.

Changes

- Expanded font size adjustment range.
- Improved a font autosizing feature.
- Added an asynchronous initialization.
- Supported progress bar display during initialization.
- Improved character width error correction feature in normal precision mode.
- Recuded string width error between normal precision mode and high precision mode.
- Improved shadow adjustment.
- Improved OpenGL state management.
- Enhanced checking of availability of OpenGL functions.
- Lowered a OpenGL minimum requirement to v1.4.
- Reduced VRAM usage to 1/4 when using system fonts.
- Recuded VRAM usage when mipmap is disabled.
- Added a function to align in ascent-line.
- Removed a function to align in box-bottom.
- Added a function to transform character width.
- Removed the limitation of character width when autosizing is enabled.
- Readjusted some internal paramters to display half scaled font more clearly.
- Secondary font can now be selected even by shift + leftclicking.
- Improved memory usage display.
- Improved glyph images generation so that all glyphs are rendered appropriately without being cut off. Therefore, "Autosizing Samples" field has been removed from GUI.
- Reduced memory usage by optimizing size of glyph images according to size of fonts.