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How to scale text or change fonts?

Discussion in 'Modding Help' started by Jackard, Jun 16, 2013.

  1. Jackard

    Jackard Base Burner

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    Jackard, Jun 16, 2013
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  2. Rayne

    Rayne ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester

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    probably with an if statement getting the blob's tag

    if (blob.hasTag("player") ) //assuming you have blob declared
    {
    stuff about resizing font
    }

    it's just a hunch, so GL
     
    Rayne, Jun 16, 2013
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  3. Jackard

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    That doesn't help? How do you resize a font? Adding something like
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    guiFontTTFSize = 22
    (from gui\guiskin.cfg) only crashes the game, and DrawText doesn't have a scale parameter like DrawIcon does:
    Code:
    GUI:DrawText( string, position, color )
     
    Jackard, Jun 16, 2013
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  4. Rayne

    Rayne ༼ つ ◕_◕ ༽つ Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester

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    that, i have no clue on, i thought you had already figure out the resizing part, since you had a screenshot with a messed up server browser.
     
    Rayne, Jun 16, 2013
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  5. Jackard

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    Switching the font size in guiskin.cfg changes everything. I want to only make the flag numbers larger, and I can't find any information on how to do this.
     
    Jackard, Jun 16, 2013
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  6. VanHuek

    VanHuek KAG Guard Tester

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    <06@MM> yes
    <06@MM> font size is set in guiSkin.cfg, unfortunately there's a bug and you need to chagne all font sizes, cant set just one
    <VanHuek> Ok thanks MM: I assume it is a very low priority.
    <06@MM> yeah :(
     
    VanHuek, Jun 17, 2013
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  7. Jackard

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    That's terrible. Is there no way to introduce our own fonts?
     
    Jackard, Jun 17, 2013
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  8. VanHuek

    VanHuek KAG Guard Tester

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    Obviously not, I will ask Geti if I see him on if he can do something.
     
    VanHuek, Jun 17, 2013
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  9. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    Simple "solution" is render the numbers to image in this case. I cant do anything about this at the moment, its the way the ttf stuff is coded due to the way irrlicht handles fonts. We'll need to add a way to load your own fonts at some point but it's not going to be as trivial as it should be.
     
    Geti, Jun 18, 2013
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  10. Jackard

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    I asked the CtP modders earlier how they did it and their example code was really confusing.
     
    Jackard, Jun 18, 2013
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  11. Geti

    Geti Please avoid PMing me (poke a mod instead) THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    basically you write your own font renderer :P if you post the example code I can go through it bit by bit if you're interested though, assuming their code isn't terrible or gigantic (hours in the day and all that).
     
    Geti, Jun 19, 2013
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  12. Jackard

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    That does sound very :p

    I invited you to their convo
     
    Jackard, Jun 19, 2013
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