Text size mod
| Submitted by Krassandra on Sat, 2015-01-10 22:04 | ||
Is there any mod REDUCING text size in journal? I've found only "Text size increased", but my problem is too LARGE font that looks more like the "modified" version. I can't read the journal normally because some part of text doesn't fit the page and remains invisible... forums: |
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if u have found a text size increased, then it could be modified to make the text smaller. also the size of the text is related somewhat to the resolution of the game screen u playing with assuming the game mod or mod author is using a wider screen that what u r playing with. but none the less, the game uses various fonts so they could indeed be made smaller.
The size of the text depends on the resolution, but the amount of text per page doesn't, so I still can't read the whole page in any resolution
Where to change these fonts?
To quote Sharkull's Post on Dungeon Siege Haven
Now I have two questions because I had a similar issue when trying to use tank creator where the text took up more space than the window provided. It turned out it was not the program but windows itself that was causing the problem:
1. What is your default windows screen resolution and is your video card in the system_detail.gas file?
2. What size icon do you have selected? You can discover this by right clicking the windows desktop then left clicking view. If you have large icons selected try picking medium or small.
Then have a look at Dungeon Siege and see if anything has changed. It worked for me on the non-scalable window size for several of my editing programs.
This mod made by KillerGremal may help; Text Size Increased Alpha 3a found about 3/4 the way down the page. For users playing in higher resolutions and please note the disclaimer about being an alpha version. http://ds2.bplaced.net/mods/
You will have to right click the file and choose "save as" with an extension of ds2res for it to work. For some obscure reason some mods from KillerGremal's site can't be downloaded properly by left clicking as they open as html (as least with Internet Explorer).
My video card is not in the system_detail.gas and I don't know what to write to add it.
2. Size icon is medium, tried to change it to small
Even if I find the file, it wont help because it would only increase the font size, while my problem is text "cutting" so I need to DECREASE font size or just make the journal window larger...
@Krassandra: The GUI design in DS2 is really not that flexible, specially not for unintended/new/larger screen resolution.
But, where did this happen? Lorebook? Bestiary? Tutorial/handbook?
And which language was it?
However, the GUI often uses a 12p font by default, the next smaller font available would be a 9p font which is probably terribly or at least 'uninvitingly' small to read for most people I guess.
Another approach would be to increase the GUI or the affected text areas - sadly quite painful to do this everywhere, and the addon possibly needs it's own revision once again.
So the best idea I had was reducing the text/row height. There is one central place to do this for many parts of the game, and according to my tests yesterday a reduction there doesn't extremely affect the readability.