Problem after changing fonts

[meathome]

Hi, im working on a ruleset modification, me and my group absolutely need bigger fonts in the chat window, so i went ahead and changed them, but after changing the regular.fgf, regularitalic.fgf, etc. fonts, link texts are no longer visible in the reference, because the font is too big. So i need a way to for example change only the font of the chat window (i tried using a font tag in the definition of the chatwindow in gameelements.xml but it did nothing) , or for customizing the appearance of links, i found nothing on either with the search function. So any help would be appreciated.
Thanks!

[TarynWinterblade]

What you'll want to do, instead of changing the regular.fgf, etc etc files themselves, you'll want to put a new file into your ruleset, and add the following to the base.xml file:



<font name="chatfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regular.fgf" />
<color value="#000000" />
</font>

<font name="chatitalicfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regularitalic.fgf" />
<color value="#000000" />
<italic />
</font>

<font name="chatbolditalicfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regularbolditalic.fgf" />
<color value="#000000" />
<italic />
</font>

<font name="npcchatfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regular.fgf" />
<color value="#000066" />
</font>

<font name="dmfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regularitalic.fgf" />
<color value="#000000" />
</font>

<font name="narratorfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regularbold.fgf" />
<color value="#000000" />
</font>

<font name="systemfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regular.fgf" />
<color value="#660066" />
</font>

<font name="oocfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regular.fgf" />
<color value="#005500" />
</font>

<font name="msgfont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regularbold.fgf" />
<color value="#660066" />
</font>

<font name="emotefont">
<fgffile name="data\fonts\regular.fgf" />
<color value="#880000" />
</font>


... changing the path in the fgffile tag as necessary.

One thing I noticed, though, is that any change at all seems to disable the aliasing on the font, as when I tried to change the color, it wasn't aliased at all and looked rather horrible (made it harder to read, rather than easier, as I was hoping).

[meathome]

Thanks, i already tried that, and am using different fonts for most things, but where and how can i set the chat window to use a custom font? i tried <font name="myfont" /> in the section that defines the chatwindow in gameelements. (where myfont is defined in bmpfonts.xml and the font works in other elements) but it didnt do anything. Thats why i tried changing the regular.fgf etc. , but had the problem with invisible link text after that. So is it even possible to assign different fonts than the regular ones to the chatwindow?

[TarynWinterblade]

Yes. The code posted above is the code that defines each of the fonts used for the chat window.

<font name="chatfont"> specifies the font used for default chat, dmfont defines the font used for DM specific chat, etc etc.

If you add that code in, and change it to point to a new font file, you'll only change the font for the chat window (or at least it should)