gallas 10

Only just got FM08 yesterday, and have been playing it obsessively since, but a major blow, as the majority have noted, is the skin, and in particular the font is rather unattractive...

... so has anyone been able to change the font for FM08 yet?

robzilla

All but the title bar text, the MASSIVE MASSIVE MASSIVE title bar text.

Krondor

If you have beta-patch 8.0.1 installed then download Metallic skin and copy desired font set to sub-folder My Docs\SI\FM 2008\skins\superattribs\fonts

gallas 10

Can you tell me how you did it please?

gallas 10

There isn't a fonts golder in the Metallic skin... on mine, there's just graphics, panels and settings folders.

robzilla

Create it.

robzilla

You can then copy whatever font you like into that folder, then change the xml config (where it says fonts/vera, change it to say fonts/tahoma or whatever font it is)

gallas 10

Except the problem is that in the superattribs.xml, there isn't anything to do with fonts, just displays:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE propertylist SYSTEM "http://www.sigames.com/dtds/propertylist.dtd">

<!--
The commands in this file will override the defaults contained in settings.xml (fm2005/data direcrory)

Any of these commands can be taken from the settings.xml, edited and placed here to change the look for your skin
-->

<properties version="1.0">

<!-- skin details -->
<string id="name" value="Metallic"/><!-- The name of the skin -->
<string id="author" value="Marc Ackter"/><!-- The author name -->
<string id="description" value="Metallic Skin"/><!-- Short description -->
<string id="version" value="1.0"/><!-- The version number -->

<flags id="parent" value="fm2008"/>

<!--
Minimum game version this skin requires to be valid, and listed as an option in the list of skins .

This is used for two things:
- F irst of all you can force a sking to only be availble for a minimum minor release (ie patch), in other words
setting the required_version to 7.0.1 makes sure the skin won't be listed if the game is in version 7.0.0.
- Secondly, the first number ("major version") is used to decide which version the skin was designed for,
so if the version is "7.0.0" it won't be listed in the list of skins if the game version is "6.0.0." or "8.0.0",
even though 7 is less than 8.
-->
<string id="required_version" value="8.0.0" />

</properties>

Beefster

http://community.sigames.com/eve/for...9682085353/p/1


this thread (half-way down) has a post by me with that same coding amended to have reference to the font sizes, mainly tweaked 'up' by 'one' but play around with them if you wish to get the size you want. it works.

also - if you delete font 'vera' and re-name 'verabd' as 'vera' the font is much easier to view...that works too and makes the whole gaming experince, er, bolder !

gallas 10

Thanks a lot dude, I actually made everything a much smaller size, ... and now it's much more easy on the eye for me.

...Although the big titles at the top and the 'continue', etc are still their original size.. as well as the match text font... any ideas on what code needs to be included to refer to the font and the size of it?