(LG_Legacy) Using font characters as elements.

[gray yacht]

At the moment I use a custom resource pack and while I've been using basic characters for my font to display images and inventories, I realize I will eventually run out of characters to use and I'm now wondering how to use special utf characters as elements.

Take example that the space font uses the following:

        {
            "type": "bitmap",
            "file": "space:font/space_split.png",
            "ascent": -32768,
            "height": -3,
            "chars": [
                "\uF801"
            ]
        },

At the moment I have no idea how to properly pull the character \uF801 and use it as an element.

[loud edge]

(LG_Legacy) Using font elements as elements.

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[gray yacht]

(LG_Legacy) Using font characters as elements.

[sand cliff]

paste 🠁 into chat?

[gray yacht]

After taking a look I've found the answer myself actually, I missed the part in the resource pack guide for denizen that states you should be using the &chr tag to construct unicode characters.

[olive cosmos]

Resolved

Thread closed as resolved.

[limber moss]

you can also make different fonts

and then select them with

!t element.font

[versed crag]

Tag: <ElementTag.font[<font>]>

Makes the input text display with the input font name. Equivalent to "<&font[new-font]><ELEMENT_HERE><&font[new-font].end_format>"
The default font is "minecraft:default".
Note that this is a magic Denizen tool - refer to !language Denizen Text Formatting.

Group

text manipulation

Returns

ElementTag

[limber moss]

this allows you to use 1 char for multiple fonts

[olive cosmos]

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[limber moss]

@gray yacht fyi ^, reopened the thread

[gray yacht]

Yes, I've been using this because I separate my custom icons from the default minecraft folder in my resource pack./

[limber moss]

ya, that's an answer to your

I realize I will eventually run out of characters to use

[gray yacht]

Ah. Of course.

[limber moss]

can have 3 different fonts but still using the same character for all 3 fonts

so running out of characters is hard

[gray yacht]

Load of numbers to choose from and such, very handy.