Fonts

[Feuer Frei!]

Thank you for the replies Gents.

So, i tinkered with changing a font style yesterday, the load\save game screen and edited the page chooseloadsave file, example:

[G56 I4]
Name=SaveGame Button
Type=1032;Button
ItemID=0x56010001
ParentID=0x56010000
Pos=0,-218,300,36
Zone= 362 384 300 36 3 1 0x56010007 0.5 -1 0x56010001 -0.5 0 0 0
Color=0xFFFFFFFF
Materials=4
Display=0;No stretch
Font=10 <<<<<changed this to another number, according to menu.ini file
Text=3502 <<<<<< i assume this is the position of text on screen???
TextFlags=0x5
StatesColors=0x8B8989FF, 0xEBCF99FF, 0xDD5800FF, 0xDD5800FF

However, no change appeared ingame?

What exactly do i need to edit\change etc to get a different font appear in say, this particular screen?

If i want to introduce a new font, what file do i need to edit? The off file only or the off file and the tga file?

Obviously i need to add the new font to the menu ini file which is easy.

A step-by-step guide would be good\helpful.

PS: I use Gimp as my image editor.

Thank you.

[divingbluefrog]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

Text=3502 <<<<<< i assume this is the position of text on screen???

No, it's not. It's the entry 3502 = SAVE GAME text in the \Silent Hunter 5\data\Menu\menu.txt file.
Position on page is given by Pos= and zone= lines above.

[gap]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

What exactly do i need to edit\change etc to get a different font appear in say, this particular screen?

I think everything gets much more intuitive when you edit game menues using the inbuildt Menu Editor.

A bit of theory about menu ini format (esp. object resizing and placing):
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...713#post496713

A couple of good Menu Editor tutorials:
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...98#post1292498
http://www.subsim.com/radioroom/show...34#post1330634

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

If i want to introduce a new font, what file do i need to edit? The off file only or the off file and the tga file?

Obviously i need to add the new font to the menu ini file which is easy.

A step-by-step guide would be good\helpful.

You better start from a stock font.

You need to redo the alpha channel of its tga/dds file (RGB channel only used for font color). Editing off and/or txt files is only needed if you need to add new characters (cyrillic for instance) and/or if character spacing for the new font doesn't match you stock template.

[Feuer Frei!]

@gap

thanks very much for your informative post.

It will get me started in the right direction

[gap]

Originally Posted by Feuer Frei!

@gap

thanks very much for your informative post.

It will get me started in the right direction

My pleasure.

Please note that the first tutorial I have linked in my previous post is relative to SHIV, but it still applies to SH5. In that respect, the only diffrence between the two games is the presence of a Menu Editor in the latter.

Let me know if you need for any further assistance