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Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/5/2011 7:09:46 PM

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I did this before with the old version. There was some setting I remember that required a template to change. I don't mind the map fonts as they have improved. It's just the unit and battle report fonts that I'd like to change to something less 'courier-like' and perhaps larger for my tired eyes.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/5/2011 8:38:57 PM

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Okay -I found the thread. I was able to change the font, but would prefer white over gold letters. Can anyone help?

Tried changing 'font color' under unit small and medium to no avail. I need to replace a color code, but to what?

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 3:07:19 AM

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Okay -I found the thread. I was able to change the font, but would prefer white over gold letters. Can anyone help?

Tried changing 'font color' under unit small and medium to no avail. I need to replace a color code, but to what?

They're RGB values, so I looked for gold rgb, and wikipedia says that the magic number is...0xFFD700, so put that in for the text color. Make sure that WindowsFont=Y. The other option is to edit the actual bitmap if Windowsfont=N.

In case you missed it, you can also change the screen resolution by changing the Opart 3.ini file.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 3:46:18 AM

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Thanks Ralph. I appreciate the help. Now, you say you looked for gold. If I want white I should probably check back at Wikipedia for white, no? I'll give it a shot.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 4:08:33 AM

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White is easy, it's 0xffffff.

The best thing to do may be to download something like Paint.Net or some other program that has a color wheel, most of them will tell you the RGB values to put in.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 3:21:03 PM

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White is easy, it's 0xffffff.

The best thing to do may be to download something like Paint.Net or some other program that has a color wheel, most of them will tell you the RGB values to put in.

I never looked for it, and the only time I really used it was to do AARs(way back when)but I thought it displayed more info like that. That definitely puts me in the driver's seat. Thanks -and I really like the way the game works now. I don't know what you'll do for the sailors, what you can do, but in time they'll get some fair representation. I'll be testing Countdown to Infamy with 3.4. I'm hopeful some of the weirdness i encountered with the Pearl Harbor attack will not occur(plus I'll be on my quad-core this time). I'm obligated not to start until these slow-pokes get War in the West to 11/41. You may have time. OTOH I'd be happy to have to start over for the right reason. Doing the math, we'll take 8 years or so at the current pace. Naturally , I'm trying to bring that number down with time rules.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 3:47:37 PM

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Macgregor, this: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html might save you time.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 4:12:02 PM

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Macgregor, this: http://www.colorschemer.com/online.html might save you time.

That's a pretty cool site! I can make them any color I want now. Thanks.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 4:27:19 PM

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Now the only problem appears to be which number to change. It's apparently not the unit info color. I'm hesitant to experiment too much.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 8:18:17 PM

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You can backup your original Opart 3 fonts.ini and start right away with experiments..why not?

Be it as it is, the most common fonts all in one picture:

Note that i don't use the deafult font for the Place Name Fonts but that i kept the standard sizes/colours to stay in "sync" with the conventional use.

All other fonts that are not displayed on the screenshot should be self-explaining. Document Font, Small Supply Font, Objective Font, Tool Tip Font.

Medium Font is also used in the Battle Report and all other info screens (Theatre Options, Replacements, Air Briefing, Situation Briefing etc pp)

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 8:33:57 PM

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Telumar, what can I say? Thank you very much for this informative display. If I can't fix it now, it's my own fault.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/8/2011 10:47:18 PM

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Outstanding find, Telemar! Just the ticket!

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 4:09:00 AM

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You can backup your original Opart 3 fonts.ini and start right away with experiments..why not?

Be it as it is, the most common fonts all in one picture:

Note that i don't use the deafult font for the Place Name Fonts but that i kept the standard sizes/colours to stay in "sync" with the conventional use.

All other fonts that are not displayed on the screenshot should be self-explaining. Document Font, Small Supply Font, Objective Font, Tool Tip Font.

Medium Font is also used in the Battle Report and all other info screens (Theatre Options, Replacements, Air Briefing, Situation Briefing etc pp)

Just note that if you want to see those SS Runes, you need to use the bitmapped fonts for the Small and Medium Fonts (and a couple of others - I forget their names).

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 2:00:30 PM

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Just note that if you want to see those SS Runes, you need to use the bitmapped fonts for the Small and Medium Fonts (and a couple of others - I forget their names).

UnitInfoSmallFont is the only other one where SS Runes are displayed i think.

Btw, could it be that the engine since 3.4 automatically 'translates' SS into the Runes? In the scenario from the above screenshot i entered the letters normally and it converted them to Runes. Previously one had to type Strg+B to get the runes. I would prefer the old setup as i always use windows fonts in small and medium font.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 4:57:16 PM

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I tried changing the medium and small font values but nothing changed. Do I need to restart the computer?
Actually, first I changed the back color as it was the only value listed. Then I injected a text color, though neither action has changed the text color in my reports. It's still gold, but I suppose I could learn to live with it. I'd really like to replace all the gold lettering with something white, but like i said, it's not a huge deal. Ian(sapper32) appears to have the font I want. Perhaps I'll just ask him for his Opart 3 Font.ini values so I can copy and paste them into mine.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 5:20:36 PM

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It's really not complicated. You need to restart the game after you made the changes. That is if you have the game running while you make the changes.

In the screenshot i posted i have disabled backgrounds. Under each Font Section you can do this with Background=Y.

Eras Medium ITC (with outline=N), Arial, Calibri and Verdana (these would need outline=Y, but in the end it's a question of personal taste) work well as Medium and Small Font.

Here's what i use (as in the screenshot):

[Colors]
ToolTipDelay=10
ToolTipAlpha=700
ToolTipColor=0x76AD86
Background=0x7F7F7F
Gold=0xF4CF64
Red=0xFF0000
Silver=0xCAFFFF
[DocumentFont]
TextColor=0xF4CF64
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=900
Size=9
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[MediumFont]
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=700
Size=8
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[SmallFont]
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=700
Size=7
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[ObjectiveFont]
TextColor=0xF4CF64
BackColor=0xFFFFFF
windowsFont=Y
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=900
Size=10
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[ToolTipFont]
TextColor=0xF4CF64
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=500
Size=12
Font=Times New Roman
[SupplyFont]
TextColor=0xFFDF28
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=900
Size=8
Font=DokChampa
[SmallSupplyFont]
TextColor=0xFFFFFF
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=N
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=900
Size=9
Font=Times New Roman
[PlaceNameFont]
TextColor=0xE3F5E5
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=900
Size=11
Font=cambria
[PlaceNameFont1]
TextColor=0xE3F5E5
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=900
Size=20
Font=cambria
[PlaceNameFont2]
TextColor=0x00BFFF
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=600
Size=10
Font=cambria italic
[PlaceNameFont3]
TextColor=0xCEFFFF
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=Y
Outline=Y
Background=N
Spacing=0
Weight=900
Size=7
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[UnitInfoSmallFont]
TextColor=0xF4CF64
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=N
Outline=N
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=700
Size=7
Font=ERAS medium ITC
[UnitInfoMediumFont]
TextColor=0xF4CF64
BackColor=0x7F7F7F
windowsFont=N
Outline=n
Background=N
Spacing=1
Weight=700
Size=8
Font=ERAS MEDIUM ITC
[Unicode]
UnicodeFonty=-4
UnicodeFontx=0
UnicodeFont=N

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 6:09:50 PM

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In your display, your unit info is still gold. I was hoping to have all this font white as it would be easier on my eyes. I'm making a big deal out of nothing though.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 7:29:13 PM

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Then, under [Colors] change Gold= to 0xFFFFFF for white, or anything you prefer. That's all you gotta do.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 4/9/2011 8:14:38 PM

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Thanks again. Your perseverance payed off, and I am grateful. Got it working. Perhaps I will tweak the color now.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:06:23 AM

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Im playing 3.4 and even though i modified .ini file
unitinfomediumfont and unitinfosmallfont do not change...

the rest of the fonts can be modified though..any reason for that?
thank you in advance.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:07:11 AM

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the bad side is that SS runes were transformed into squares :(

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:21:39 AM

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In the opart 3 fonts.ini file, under UnitInfoMediumFont and UnitInfoSmallFont have you set WindowsFont to Y?

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:26:31 AM

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thank you..

yes..i did it
I ill try again though.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:34:14 AM

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you are right..now i set them as Y..but the bad side is that in both places (unit report and small/mediumunitfont) ,the SS runes become squares)

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:35:23 AM

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could you please to paste here this file part to check carefully is im mising something?

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:35:56 AM

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i succeded to chane fonts in small/mediumunti font, but this causes that the ss are squares..

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 10:57:18 AM

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That's normal. Nothing you can do about that (except switch back to bitmap fonts) Pity, but it is as it is.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 11:04:35 AM

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i succeded to chane fonts in small/mediumunti font, but this causes that the ss are squares..

Did you try pressing the "Ctrl" key and the "A" key at the same time to get SS runes in the editor?

But then, as Telumar said, you might need to switch back to the bitmap fonts.

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 12:45:00 PM

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but please see the screen posted by Telumar above, I can se different fonts for unitmediumfont AND the SS runes well-done! how can I get this??

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RE: Changing fonts in 3.4 - 8/9/2012 12:46:20 PM

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in medium font field, it is ok they appear as squares and we cannt do anything but in the UNITinfor, the SS runes are still visible, but I cannot obtain the same in my PC. so I wonder where is the problem?

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