4.13 development update discussion and feedback

[Pursuivant]

Originally Posted by Treetop64

Yep. Got sick of that "slapped on" painted look years ago. Been using Mat Manager for the better part of seven years now, and it goes a long way in improving most numbers and decals in the game, but it doesn't convert numbers on aircraft introduced after Aces released their final version of Mat Manager.

Mat Manager is/was wonderful, but like you said, it's getting old.

I haven't yet implemented them in my installation of the game, but I came up with much more "Cyrillic" looking numbers based on the stencils applied to some Yak aircraft. I've only got them as .tif or .jpg formats rather than as an actual font, though. See the attachment below.

TD is welcome to them. PM if you want them.

Alternately, it would be fairly simple to rip off some off some of the more interesting Cyrillic serif fonts; since there was a subtle but distinct "Soviet" style of typography. This site has lots of interesting possibilities.

http://smashinghub.com/30-free-russian-fonts.htm

Kremlin Imperial and Kremlin Advisor have numbers that are fairly close to stencils in pictures I've seen.