font size

[Joel Billings]

Someone asked whether the fonts in AWD can be made larger for easier reading. Although there is no easy way to do this, it is possible to change the fonts in AWD. To change the fonts, you would need to both change the font files in the dat/art/fonts directory and then adjust the wawgoldart.txt file (in the dat directory) to account for any changed font file. In the wawgoldart.txt file you would have to find the following lines and make adjustments to accept any new font file:


// FONT,<language code 0=english>,<path>,<starting ascii value>,<font id>,<cell width>,<cell height>,<max cells across>,[letter value or 'letter'],[start x],[start sy],[num cell]...

// US english font must be last
FONT,0,fonts/font1.tga,0,1,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95
FONT,0,fonts/font2.tga,0,2,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95
FONT,0,fonts/font3.tga,0,3,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95
FONT,0,fonts/font04-12.tga,0,4,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95
FONT,0,fonts/font04-14.tga,0,5,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95
FONT,0,fonts/font1-20.tga,0,6,30,30,17,"!",1,0,95


Obviously an understanding of font files would be needed to do this work. I'll ask one of our artists if they can suggest some relatively easy changes to get larger fonts.