Font Modding

[rxnnxs]

Ok, I will write here how I come along with my own Font Modding Project.

While I am also trying to make the Orbits better and automate via Python the Size of Ships and Weaponeffects (Thank you StoddardOXC!),

right now I found out, how to use Stride to generate a bundle file and how to include this bundle file into a mod.

Right now, I replaced the Fonts just as Elliot Gibbs explained in his nice tutorial here.

But even without the -flag command, it is kind of possible..

but only kind of, because not all fonts are replaced.
if someone can give me a hand in pointing me to the direction where this font is hiding, I would be very grateful..
The fonts I use do not have any special characters, so for instance the german äöü are not implemented - yet.

So, to round this up, here some screenshots with a very ugly font, but nonetheless you can see right away that it is working!

Ah, just to make it complete, the stride settings and mod-file settings are also important.

So: Next post is about the settings, third post is about the actual screenshot about the font.

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Project Stride:

projectStride.jpg (164.09 KiB) Viewed 298 times

Here the whole code inside the
file:
MonospaceFont.Windows.sdpkg

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!Package
SerializedVersion: {Assets: 3.1.0.0}
Meta:
    Name: MonospaceFont.Windows
    Version: 1.0.0
    Authors: []
    Owners: []
    Dependencies: null
AssetFolders:
    -   Path: !dir Assets
ResourceFolders:
    - !dir Resources
OutputGroupDirectories: {}
ExplicitFolders: []
Bundles:
    -   Name: fonts
        Selectors:
            - !PathSelector
                Paths:
                    - UserInterface/
        Dependencies: []
TemplateFolders: []
RootAssets:
    - 0126ca8d-7079-4022-9573-429fbebcf4a1:UserInterface/Fonts/Font28Bold
    - 063f712f-b261-4130-aaf6-29f3e4669c15:UserInterface/Fonts/Font46
    - 0f3fd565-3227-41a7-8099-4dd15b142f1a:UserInterface/Fonts/Font48
    - 121cebf6-bc5c-4883-81fa-128fcaa5e3b8:UserInterface/Fonts/Font20Bold
    - 1255a99d-4d20-480d-affa-cd2811977dd6:UserInterface/Fonts/Font36Bold
    - 15dcd7e4-3864-48a3-86ea-c84a57c09fdd:UserInterface/Fonts/Font48Bold
    - 1e7cba2b-4a4c-4455-b8b8-586af9e83a7d:UserInterface/Fonts/Font12
    - 22a13d31-d474-48a2-9ff9-b56d887a721a:UserInterface/Fonts/Font34
    - 260dae03-5aad-47ed-87ff-90e93df7e12a:UserInterface/Fonts/Font16Bold
    - 2a79476b-8a70-4a39-ad80-62a3f17b45f9:UserInterface/Fonts/Font30Bold
    - 2d28919a-b173-446c-9af1-992d377a9eac:UserInterface/Fonts/Font12Bold
    - 394ccae4-35bb-4903-acd4-c643453663ec:UserInterface/Fonts/Font42
    - 3be0b356-b03c-4c71-b069-fe468ddfe040:UserInterface/Fonts/Font42Bold
    - 3d8d18f0-76b5-4f6b-bcdb-20dc4f817c80:UserInterface/Fonts/Font38Bold
    - 3e68fef1-02ea-47fc-9d10-97b634e4248f:UserInterface/Fonts/Font40
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    - 4aa0631a-2d0f-4373-9805-f79fa769007c:UserInterface/Fonts/Font34Bold
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    - 5ab0267a-0122-4247-9f6f-1e5f50079df3:UserInterface/Fonts/Font18
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    - 7d7b34d5-4b62-4739-8c54-ceb783045e02:UserInterface/Fonts/Font44Bold
    - 84d6da08-ec8a-4d9d-8fd5-b7526aee2cf9:UserInterface/Fonts/Font6
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    - a6a3ec30-e874-41a6-9ed9-98d6b7ec53fe:UserInterface/Fonts/Font40Bold
    - a96b5acb-e772-4572-83d8-c678193c9ef6:UserInterface/Fonts/Font38
    - ac92e8be-938d-4a59-a3f4-45a82fbee386:UserInterface/Fonts/Font32Bold
    - b07c2feb-a7a9-40a2-b573-96b2cff6619c:UserInterface/Fonts/Font24
    - b0cd89d8-a6d0-4932-a4a6-d09ec9730bcf:UserInterface/Fonts/Font44
    - b452d540-8617-449f-947a-0f42a95c33f2:UserInterface/Fonts/Font24Bold
    - b49214d2-a937-46cb-ac8b-2a0e67ab1604:UserInterface/Fonts/Font30
    - b525ff55-9fb6-46bc-b221-dcd3f3d8e4fa:UserInterface/Fonts/Font22Bold
    - b8fbbfc5-a8d1-47e0-b1e1-45ef94d2dc0b:UserInterface/Fonts/Font36
    - c3080fac-2f66-42d1-9973-8a8cce99fc94:UserInterface/Fonts/Font8
    - c6a0366c-d19a-4def-9213-03832a881b40:UserInterface/Fonts/Font6Bold
    - cbdbc703-8c9a-4d64-a7cf-8be1c341144c:UserInterface/Fonts/Font16
    - d2628340-d1d6-432f-9d9d-a5d99b46fdf3:UserInterface/Fonts/Font14Bold
    - dd1d6a5d-38f9-40ff-9b4c-fb6fe19d97d1:UserInterface/Fonts/Font8Bold
    - e5f97343-cbf4-4c05-a0f1-792216c74fe8:UserInterface/Fonts/Font32
    - ecabf4cc-60df-4ab6-aaac-42458a539fe0:UserInterface/Fonts/Font22

Here the contents of the mod file:
mod.json

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{
  "displayName": "fonts",
  "shortDescription": "fonttest",
  "version": "1.2.7.9",
  "previewImage": "takeapicture.jpg",
  "bundles": ["fonts.bundle", "flags.bundle"]
} 

Now here you can see that in this way more than one bundle can be loaded.

[rxnnxs]

Who knows where the unchanged font is hidden?
(To watch the pic in 100%, rightclick and open the picture in a new window)

This is how the game looks right now:

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Second pic:

second pic.jpg (188.25 KiB) Viewed 297 times

My biggest wish concerning fonts is to have a monospace font that brings all numbers nice in line in a vertical line.

And exactly this is not happening, because the font controlling this is somewhere else.

wish.jpg (275.04 KiB) Viewed 296 times

[rxnnxs]

The Fonts may be hiding inside this textures.

could be.jpg (143.19 KiB) Viewed 290 times

This would be too much work to test.
I will wait for the next year, when the -font command is implemented.

See here:
Elliot Gibbs explaining new -font switch

[rxnnxs]

YESSSS, now it works:

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[rxnnxs]

I am working on the first Mod that I will upload here when its done.

[rxnnxs]

Ok, here it is!

thisd.jpg (260.11 KiB) Viewed 266 times

Version Unispace Regular and Bold

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Version Inconsolata: