Make your own CUSTOM analog FPV OSD! | Tutorial

How to make your own custom analog OSD.

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What's up, y'all? Welcome to today's

video. I've had a lot of requests lately

about how to make your own custom analog

OSD. That's what today's video is about.

But I wanted to show you guys, it's

super easy. It's like a little website

you go to and you whippity bop and

upload your font. And I'll show you I'll

show you the whole thing. Um I'm not

going to I'm not going to go through and

make an actual whole new font cuz it is

a little timeconuming. However, however,

I will show you from beginning to end.

So I'll show you the whole thing. We'll

make a font and then we'll get it

uploaded onto your quad and then we'll

test it and it's super easy like I said.

So um yeah, I don't know. Like I said, I

don't know how long this video is going

to be, but welcome to Spider Sugar's how

to make a custom font in Betaflight

OSD

school. It's It's only for analog

though. Sorry.

And if you if you do have any uh

additional questions about uh the fonts,

like where to get a where to get a base

font, I will I'll have a uh a base font

um in my discord. So go to the discord

and then go to channels. It'll be custom

OSD um howto. Um join the Discord, go

over there, click it. That way you can

have a font ready to go out of the box

so you can play with. So, I have the

website pulled up. It is OSD font

editor. So, it's OSD.

Vro vit vitroidfpv.com.

So, uh go check that out. So, I already

have a um a font that Gringo and I made

previously. Um you just click choose

file, click your font, and then you hit

read. So, we're going to go ahead and

click read, and then it reads it. So now

you see over here on the left we have

every character

um in the Betaflight OSD and um I'll

show you how to get little images and

all that, but we're going to start off.

I'm just going to give you a basic

overview of the program. It's super

simple to use. If you've ever used a uh

like a pixel art creator, that's exactly

what this is. Um you don't have to be a

master of typography or anything. What

what we did is we took we uh literally

took a font and then we pixelated it um

and brought it in uh kind of like as a

reference. So you do it is a little

tedious. You do got to paint every

single square, but it's really not that

hard. Like if you just want to like make

a couple letters and use that that you

know that'll work too. Just keep in mind

of what ones you're changing. So this is

the font that we created here.

A is A B blah blah blah blah. But you'll

see right here, you'll see where it says

it says 65 hex

or 65 is 41 hex. Each one has a

corresponding number. So that's how

Betaflight is reading this. It's not

reading it as like ABC. So you can put

in whatever you want, which is kind of

cool. Um, for the like the RSSI and like

the link quality, we made this little

eye. So, it's like this little allseeing

eye thing. I I don't know. I we thought

it was cool. So, um, also one of the

coolest things you can do is

your battery. So, this is this is

technically the battery image. And there

is, uh, what is it? 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 eight

frames that you can make for your

battery. So, it's various levels of it,

you know, being full to empty. So, on

this, it's a little coffin, and the

coffin runs out of juice until it

eventually says RIP,

which I thought was pretty fun. Um, it

is a little it is a little tedious. Like

I said, I'm not going to go through and

show you how to paint in uh this

program. Just just be patient, take your

time, keep in mind the space, this like

the spacing of the font. It's it might

be a little wonky. Um, so it's going to

take you a couple times to kind of like

tweak it. You might have you're going to

have to basically make the font, upload

it to your drone, and then look at the

OSD and see if it's like how you like it

or not. So, it is a little bit of a

trial and error. Um, so in that sense,

it can be a little tedious, but other

than that, it's super super easy. So,

let's go ahead and make our logo. Let's

replace the the Betaflight Splash page

with our own logo. So, you go up here.

Again, it's super easy. Click logo

upload.

And then we're going to choose a file.

So, we'll we'll use the beta FPV one for

example. So, this logo works really well

because it's simple. It's three colors

or technically it's it could be two

colors. So it it looked it upload or uh

it converts it for you. So you don't

even have to you don't have to do

anything special like slice things up

and draw them and little bits on the

grid to make it work. So all right, we

chose our file. We're going to go add to

font. So we click this and boom, add it.

Added it to there. So now when we boot

up the quad, we'll have uh beta FPV on

there. Um, but we're not going to do

that. We're going to read this again.

Get that out of there. Another thing you

can do is custom graphics. This one I

don't recommend. Uh, you can replace the

pilot name uh with your own like little

like custom graphic or logo. I have

tried. I know there's a way to there's a

way to do it.

And I sat I sat down today and I was

like, I'm going to learn how to do this

so I can teach everybody. It is a pain

in the ass. So, I'm not even going to

bother. If you want to, there might be a

tutorial somewhere. So, it says craft

name, pilot name. You use these

characters, and then it populates. See,

I I tried to do it over here. I have the

little FPV gang uh

uh little FPV gang logo that I made a

long time ago um as the OST, but every

time I put it in there um it's all

jumbled and you got to try to like line

it up and it is honestly a pain in the

ass. Not worth it. Just make a cool font

and put your pilot or your pilot name or

your craft name. That's literally that's

literally as easy as it is. So once you

have your font all made, you go into

here and you say export MCM. So you

click that and it says it'll uh put a

little thing in your downloads folder

called exported font.mmc.

That that's what you'll use in

Betaflight to uh upload your font. So

again, pretty easy to make your own

font. And like I said, this it's a

little tedious. So, it does take some

time. You got to go in pixel by pixel

draw your characters, which actually is

very simple. Um, it's just very tedious.

One pixel at a time. So, next, uh, I'm

going to we're going to I'm going to

open up Betaflight and I'll show you how

to put it on your quad. Okay. So, now I

got my little my little quad. I got Beta

Flight open. So, we're going to go

ahead. We're going to get this connected

and then I'll show you how to um put

your own font on it, which is really

easy. Connect.

It's working. Okay. So, now we go down