Bookart request: Fancy letters

[Razorwing]

I was fiddling around with a book I wrote years ago for the TES3 mod, and while working on it decided to try and bring in a special set of fancy letters for Silgrad Tower books. It went well from a technical viewpoint, as you can see in this screenshot:

The letter textures display just fine, being a DXT3-type dds with alpha opacity and no mip-maps. But they look bad, since their size and opacity was intended to work on a website rather than a game.

So I would like to kindly request a new set be made. Please use the font Magic Medieval, but other than that you're free to decide the style. We need A-Z (capitals only), 0-9, and ideally also a few special characters that are very likely to be used in the beginning of sentences like hypens and quotation marks. If a book contains dialogue for instance it's likely it'll use either hyphens or quotation marks, so those will be very useful, but you'll never use for instance a comma.

Like with Bethesda's letters the textures should be 64x64 pixels large, but it's okay to extent to 128x64 if you have to. The texture has to be anchored to the center left corner of the dds texture. It seems that it doesn't matter if the letter fills out the whole dds template horisontally, but it should fill out most of it vertically. It has to do with how the game displays book text. As you can see in the screenshot I anchored the letter to the top left corner when I expanded the template to 64x64. Because the letters weren't designed for this use there was empty room below them, so in-game it looks like the letter has 'hopped up' and become misaligned. So; expand the template to 128 pixels horisontally if you need to, it doesn't seem to matter, but make sure you fill it up vertically.

If you want to check them out then Bethesda's are located in Oblivion\Data\textures\menus\book\fancy_font. Especially note the way they made their opacity maps; the outer edges of the visible opacity is grayish, and yours should have that too because it'll look smoother ingame.

Please name the files "letter_widthxheight.dds", or in other words "a_68x61.dds" and so on. The width and height should be the dimensions of the real graphic, not the dimensions of the dds template. It's a good reminder when a modder is specifying their size in the book text.

Since I started experimenting with bookart only recently it's possible I misunderstood something about their use. If you reach a different conclusion on something than I did then by all means go with your conclusion. I think it would be a good idea if you made a single letter to start with, so I can test it out and make sure it displays like anticipated in-game.

(A nice extra would be any kind of fantasy-like graphic that can be used to separate text, the kind of graphic like on this website but naturally one that makes sense for a book. It's not very important though.)

Thanks in advance! This will surely kick our books up a notch =)