How do you get charsets to work in darkplaces?

[The Hoff]

Hello guys im a bit of a newbie and im using the darkplaces engine, ive got the high res textures loaded up ok, a new hud, even music now which is a bonus, but the one thing i cant get to work is the charsets, ive downloaded moondrunks charsets which are authentic and quake looking. could somebody please tell me STEP BY STEP how to get them to work, i can never find any instructions which folders to create and where to place the file into etc, id be very gratefull thanks

[Baker]

Without checking, I'm think you need to save the charset as such:

c:\quake\id1\conchars.png

For DarkPlaces to use it. If I'm wrong, then it is this ...

c:\quake\id1\gfx\conchars.png

/Haven't done it in a while with DarkPlaces

[The Hoff]

hi baker, thanks for your reply. i tried both ways you mentioned but it still remains at the default charset, any ideas? im sure its something simple im not doing

[Moon[Drunk]]

Mod?

Are you running a mod e.g. '-game dp' (in your darkplaces shortcut)? in that case it's probably something overriding your conchars in that directory.
Try to remove '-game dp' part from your shortcut and see if that helps.
Conchar.png can be hiding inside .pak or .pk3 files located in the mod directory or placed in \'mod'\gfx\.

btw I have my conchars.png in quake\id\gfx\ as Baker said and it works fine.

[The Hoff]

hi moondrunk do you mean in the Target in the shortcut? i dont think ive a mod it just says "C:\Program Files\Quake\darkplaces.exe" apart from new textures and new hud etc im just running normal darkplaces

[The Hoff]

ive just noticed, the file above by baker saying c:\quake\id1\gfx\conchars.png
the one ive downloaded says "charset-id3v2" so mine says c:\quake\id1\gfx\charset-id3v2 is that right?

[The Hoff]

i just renamed the charset file and it works now thanks guys