ALFA Books Reading & Writing

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:12 pm

Excelent thanks man making sure the damn thing doesnt lag the hell out of a server is a big concern. There are steps that can easily be taken easily to make parsing take longer (could do it line by line) if theyre needed but hopefully we wont need to. I know that when it tried to parse the thing before i put the 4 line max per screen refresh it pretty much brought my single player game to a stop till it was done. Reading should be good to go i think though. that only does a max of 60 lines per page turn.

indio · Post by **indio** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:43 pm

I've always wanted someone to make something of that book hak. Awesome work. Well done.

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:47 pm

Thanks man... what book hak though?

Edit: Wow its been awhile I was just looking over the whole thread and i forgot i started making this because of the nwvault book system. I didnt end up using any of it in the end though as it wasnt dynamicly focused heh i need to sleep more sry man

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 6:10 am

Ok could use a hand with languages if anyone is good with them im dumb heh. So far i know the alphabets and have fonts for:

ESPRUAR - Elven
DETHEK - Dwarven
Bad Klingon knock off - Draconic
Thorass - Old Human

(Thanks a million for the links by the way fonts are not easy to find)

And thats it I would like to do something for each language the DMFI supports which i think is something like:

Abyssmal
Animal
Celestial
Draconic
Drow
Dwarf
Elven
Gnome
Goblin
Halfling
Infernal
Leetspeak
Orc
Thieve's Cant

Which would mean I dont know what to do for:

Abyssmal
Celestial
Drow
Gnome
Goblin
Halfling
Infernal
Orc

Leetspeak - im not realy worried about this its illegeable any way heh
Animal - dont think the write do they?
Thieve's Cant - this more of a dialect?

but im not sure if im missing any or already have some or what

Would also like to add a druid language and such and taking suggestions as well especaily if people have links to fonts.

Demson · Post by **Demson** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 10:25 am

I thought gnomes spoke leetspeak.

Post by **paazin** » Fri Aug 22, 2008 11:38 am

bartleby wrote:Ok could use a hand with languages if anyone is good with them im dumb heh. So far i know the alphabets and have fonts for:

ESPRUAR - Elven
DETHEK - Dwarven
Bad Klingon knock off - Draconic
Thorass - Old Human

(Thanks a million for the links by the way fonts are not easy to find)

And thats it I would like to do something for each language the DMFI supports which i think is something like:

Abyssmal
Animal
Celestial
Draconic
Drow
Dwarf
Elven
Gnome
Goblin
Halfling
Infernal
Leetspeak
Orc
Thieve's Cant

Which would mean I dont know what to do for:

Abyssmal
Celestial
Drow
Gnome
Goblin
Halfling
Infernal
Orc

Leetspeak - im not realy worried about this its illegeable any way heh
Animal - dont think the write do they?
Thieve's Cant - this more of a dialect?

but im not sure if im missing any or already have some or what

Would also like to add a druid language and such and taking suggestions as well especaily if people have links to fonts.

I know I've seen a list of the alphabets used by all languages somewhere ... I'll look around to see if I can find it again.

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 12:20 pm

Several languages share the same alphabet. Dwarven, gnome, orcish and giant for example, all use the same runes. We can either let them all use the same lettering, or perhaps use FR 3 dethek runes for the dwarves and the A&D version for the gnomes. Which then still leaves the others out in the cold.

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 7:25 pm

orcs and goblins write books?

I found this link interesting
http://wiki.narfell-nwn.com/Languages

Its shows halflings as using Thorass as their alphabet.

This is awesome work you are doing mate.. great plot devices.

This means we can develop research statics for people so I'll be using it for the Zhentil Keep Mage Guild statics and other nefarious people who wish to remain nameless..

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 9:10 pm

Thangorn wrote:orcs and goblins write books?

I found this link interesting
http://wiki.narfell-nwn.com/Languages

Its shows halflings as using Thorass as their alphabet.

This is awesome work you are doing mate.. great plot devices.

This means we can develop research statics for people so I'll be using it for the Zhentil Keep Mage Guild statics and other nefarious people who wish to remain nameless..

Holy crap man thank you this is exactly what i was looking for and thanks for the words of encouragement.

hollyfant · Post by **hollyfant** » Sat Aug 23, 2008 10:06 pm

According to that list, Gnomes do not speak.
(unless they're clerics and/or from Lantan)

Riiiiight...

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:48 am

According to that list, Gnomes do not speak.
(unless they're clerics and/or from Lantan)

Riiiiight...

Gnomes should not speak as they have lame whiney voices

Thangorn · Post by **Thangorn** » Sun Aug 24, 2008 11:58 am

And to help you finish off..

Celestial - http://www.omniglot.com/writing/angelic.htm
Drow - http://www.angelfire.com/rpg2/vortexsha ... runes.html
Gnome - dethek
Goblin - dethek
Halfling - thorass
Orc - dethek

Now for abyssal and infernal (and many other scripts/alphabets) here's and awesome resource I found.. all downloadable true type fonts.. I think the Ogham script probably fits your druid script and I'm sure you can find plenty in there to fit the bill for other languages..

The Alphabet of Demons would be perfect for Abyssal I think..

http://www.afternight.com/runes/runes1.htm

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Sat Aug 30, 2008 6:17 am

Thank you everyone for the help finding fonts thats darn near the hardest part I wanted to try to stay as true to what the alphabets should actualy look like as possible and hopefully I got close.

Four more new fonts added: Celestial, Dethek, DrowRounded, and Thorass

So far everything seems to work perfectly with the parser and everything shouldnt be too hard to keep adding.

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Thu Sep 04, 2008 5:24 am

Is there anyone that could give me a comprehensive list of all the languages a PC can know (via the DMFI) so that i can make sure that if a character can speak a language they can also read and write in it?

I think i should be able to support almost every language that exists in Faerun but no sence including a language if no one can use it.

So far i have fonts for the following alphabets and so the following languages that use them:

Alphabets Languages

Abyssek -Abyssal
Aquanek -Aquan
Aunanek -Auran
Celestial -Celestial
Draconic -Draconic
Dethek -Dwarven,Giant Common,Gnoll,Goblin,Orc,Damaran,Chondathan,Rashemi,Shaaran
Drow -Drow
Entish -Treant
Espruar -Elven,UnderCommon
Iganek -Ignan
Infernek -Infernal
Sylvan -Sylvan
Tarranek -Terran
Thorass -Hin,Alzhedo,Illuskan,Midani

bartleby · Post by **bartleby** » Tue Sep 16, 2008 12:06 am

Not a lot of time but thought id post an update.

Alphabets and their Languages in the order they show up on the book

Common Standard Font
Abyssal Abyssek
Infernal Infernek
Dwarven Denthek
Giant Common Dethek
Gnoll Dethek
Goblin Dethek
Orc Dethek
Damaran Dethek
Chondathan Dethek
Rashemi Dethek
Shaaran Dethek
Drow Drow
Sylvan Sylvan
Aquan Aquanek
Auran Aunanek
Entish Treant
Ignan Iganek
Celestial Celestail
Draconic Draconic
Terran Tarranek
Elven Espruar
UnderCommon Espruar
Halfling Thorass
Alzhedo Thorass
Illuskan Thorass
Midani Thorass