haha I didn't disagree I just wasn't after identification more if I could make a font based off of the files from the open source =P as much as it is close it isn't 100% there just due to them editing it a little bit here and there. I wanted that original pretty bad but if I can make this copperplate font monospace (thanks to koeiekat) then I will be extremely happy =)

After a few tests, copper plate seems the closest, but the lack of monospace urks me! :P Is there a way to make a font monospaced? I think if I could make Copperplate Bold monospaced it would take a lot to top it.

I linked an attempted recreation where I had blown up each character/punctuation mark but the quality was pretty awful as they all started from the atom like images you mention.

This is as good as I could get it in terms of how easy to see/size. The centre text is as big as it gets but can be a lot harder to see - I noticed that the apostrophe, lessthan/morethan, question mark and colon are all slightly oddshaped or misplaced. (image also gives more characters etc just from the loading section)

http://s27.postimg.org/f450idg0h/0000000039.png

tested that and its amazingly close, so much so that it is hard to tell the difference. Main things are the punctuation marks but my self made replica font can cover those, the characters are much more pristine here and pretty much like for like (only the M and Q have small differences).

I guess no matter what though will always have the problem of no monospace which is fairly important ;]

yup but I basically overlayed game screenshots onto that, and had to resize drastically - if you check this one: http://s30.postimg.org/90q3kajc1/shot0000.png its how it should look. (I know it's small :P)

I looked around, I could only really find Serif fonts - except: http://www.fonthaus.com/fonts/sweetfonts/sweet-gothic/sw10105

They are all close, but I guess this is where their small edits made the difference (and monospace, I've not found a monospace version yet)

It wasn't open source to being with, they made it open source 10 years after release.

yup, but I don't need indentification - I know it's not a released font :( it looks a lot like an edited version of Arial Black and is monospaced (monospaced is very important for what I need it for, if you see the linked image I basically will reproduce sections like this.)

I attempted to reproduce this by screenshotting the text in game and recreating it with some free online font production - but the quality is destroyed in the process and the outcome has not been great (also monospace isn't possible on these sites and that is like I mentioned probably the most important factor)

attempted reproduction: http://s8.postimg.org/jqp967i90/RTCW_FONT_TEST1.jpg

I linked to the description about the font from the open source - I have no idea how to get the actual font, I think I found some glyph files (which I also linked) but they aren't the same font at all.

snippit from the open source:

// What we did was pre-render the fonts using FreeType ( which is why we leave the FreeType
// credit in the credits ) and then saved off the glyph data and then hand touched up the
// font bitmaps so they scale a bit better in GL.

First of all - I have literally no idea what I am doing.

A PC Game I have played went open souce a few years ago and I was hoping to use the font they used in the game for projects related to that game (videos and such) but as I said, no idea where to start.

I have 5 TGA Files and 4 DAT Files - is there a way to somehow create a working font file to use with Photoshop?

the files: http://www.sendspace.com/file/kxwdly
heres a screenshot of the font in action! http://s30.postimg.org/90q3kajc1/shot0000.png
also a link to the open source files about the font: https://github.com/id-Software/RTCW-MP/blob/master/src/renderer/tr_font.c

any help would be greatly appreciated!