b4vwf - BG4 Variable-Width-Font Text Boxes

SMW Patches → b4vwf - BG4 Variable-Width-Font Text Boxes

Submission Details

Name:	b4vwf - BG4 Variable-Width-Font Text Boxes
Author:	Katrina
Added:	2021-10-01 03:13:11 AM
Tool:	Asar
Requires Free Space:	Yes
Bug Fix:	No
Featured:	No
Description:	This patch replaces SMW's text box system with a fancier one with that displays text on BG4. The default text boxes work with common types of HDMA (like color gradients and parallax), and any layer 3 background that doesn't use the graphics file in slot LG3, which includes every vanilla layer 3 background except tides. The patch optionally supports using variable-width text for level names on the overworld, so it can replace long level name patches as well. The text boxes have some formatting options so you can customize their look on a global or per-text-box basis.
Tags:	level names lorom message box overworld overworld border sa-1 vwf
Comments:	17 (jump to comments)

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Comments (17)

Heitor Porfirio 2023-02-14 09:04:16 PM Link

Is this patch compatible with these patches, if using the OW Level Names option?

- Overworld Indicators
- Widescreen Overworld

Anorakun 2023-03-26 04:49:12 PM Link

Yes, it is. I'm using both of them in my hack.

AppleBoy54321 2023-01-05 04:47:03 AM Link

Is this compatible with the DKCR Status Bar

Anorakun 2022-07-30 09:08:07 PM Link

Originally posted by Rykon-V73

Shame this doesn't use SA-1. It's a good candidate for my hack.

It does work with SA-1. I'm using in my latest hack.

Rykon-V73 2022-07-30 09:03:18 PM Link

Shame this doesn't use SA-1. It's a good candidate for my hack.

Anorakun 2022-04-13 03:00:45 AM Link

Originally posted by Hayashi Neru

※ Do not use in Mode 0 level. If using in mode 0, Layer 4 background is gone.

Well, that's an expected behavior, since it uses BG4.

Hayashi Neru 2022-04-13 02:13:14 AM Link

※ Do not use in Mode 0 level. If using in mode 0, Layer 4 background is gone.

Hayashi Neru 2022-03-30 04:00:14 PM Link

Notice: This patch is not compactable New Super Mario Bros. Wii Styled Status Bar v1.7 (Even if "!HAS_STATUS_BAR" is set to 0)
Ice Man provided a solution in the comments of the patch.

Soul 2021-12-11 06:25:09 AM Link

"This isn't a house Yoshi, These are trees." Gives this a 6/5 rating

Vitor Vilela 2021-10-01 03:22:57 AM Link

Moderation comments - an excellent and well-written patch. The readme and instructions made the process easier to understand and this patch is one that you don't need to be afraid to use if you are looking to a more flexible text box system with different kind of fonts.

It's hard to test with all combinations, but I believe the critical sections of the patch have been verified and it should be safe to use.

Keeping in mind naturally given the complexity and scope of the patch, it may not compatible with the following patches due of hijack conflicts found:
- Inline Layer 3 Messages v1.0.1
- Automatic Intro Message Dismiss
- Extended "Extended OW Level Names" (if using the overworld hijack option)
- Yoshi Player Patch v1.13 (if using the overworld hijack option)

Vitor Vilela 2021-09-29 03:23:34 AM Link

Interesting patch, very creative way to use BG4

Hayashi Neru 2021-08-28 01:51:49 AM Link

If I put more than 9 font files in this patch, I get the following error:

error message:

Code
/b4vwf/font.asm:311: error: (E5032): A bank border was crossed, SNES address $5010800. [incbin "gfx/Uni4100.bin"]

font.asm: Show/Hide
Code
fontPtrs: dw ktGothic ; $00 dw message ; $01 dw status ; $02 ; (Comments are omitted.) !FONT_FALLBACK = 0 ; header: font id to use for characters not in this font https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=viewthread&t=104929&page=2&pid=1588820#p1588820 !FONT_SPACING = 1 ; header: number of pixels between letters !FONT_CHARS = 4 ; header: number of characters in this font !FONT_PAGES = 8 ; table of ptrs to page gfx: !FONT_CHARS*2 bytes macro pgofs(pageloc) ...(skip) endmacro ktGothic: ; header db -1 ; KT Gothic has no fallbacks db 1 ; 1px letter spacing dw $ffff ; last supported page is FFxx ; page pointers %pgofs(ktgLatin) ; 00xx ...(skip) %pgofs(0) ; 3Exx %pgofs(0) ; 3Fxx %pgofs(Uni4000) ; 40xx %pgofs(Uni4100) ; 41xx %pgofs(Uni4200) ; 42xx ...(skip) pushpc freedata align ktgLatin: incbin "gfx/kt-gothic-latin.bin" ktgPunct: incbin "gfx/kt-gothic-punct.bin" ktgPriv: incbin "gfx/kt-gothic-private.bin" ktgXWidth: incbin "gfx/kt-gothic-x-width.bin" Uni4000: incbin "Uni4000.bin" Uni4100: incbin "Uni4100.bin" Uni4200: incbin "Uni4200.bin" ...(skip)

If using Japanese, Chinese, or Korean fonts, there are need to use a lot of glyphs. Of course, Japanese can only use hiragana and katakana, but Chinese and Korean do not.

How can I solve this problem?

Solved

Rykon-V73 2021-05-15 09:53:17 PM Link

I see. Thanks and as for that error, I think my emulator is bugged in a weird way.

Katrina Author 2021-05-15 07:41:22 PM Link

Rykon,

I'm not getting disappearing layer 3. If you found a bug I missed, I will need more information to find out what is causing it. Submission comments aren't great for this, so I would appreciate if you could send me a PM or contact me on Discord with some information about your setup.

As for level names: the patch is set up for two-line level names by default. If you look in levelnames.asm, you will see that all of SMW's level names have an empty line on top to put them on the second line:

Code

name104:
	db "", $0a
	db "YOSHI'S HOUSE", $00

To recreate the text in the upload screenshots, you can replace that with:

Code

name104:
	db "This isn't a house, Yoshi.", $0a
	db "These are trees.", $00

Rykon-V73 2021-05-12 08:18:31 PM Link

Great patch. I did find a bug. Even if you trigger the layer 4 message box, layer 3 still vanishes.
Also, how do you add longer level names on the OW. A screenshot told me you can insert 2 lines of text there.

Black Goku 2021-05-04 05:28:37 PM Link

Forgot Sa-1 tag

Vivian Darkbloom 2021-04-25 10:18:19 PM Link

This is so cool and so useful. I'm glad it exists, I was waiting for it for over a year.