ok.. i have absolutly NO IDEA where this should go... but this is one of the more widely viewd forums, so here for now :-P.

lets say i want to change the admin text font (the csay (the big green letters that pop up on your screen) one), is there any way to do that client-side? or is that font a server-side thing?

there isnt a way client side as far as i know

It's defined in the GUI res files in the GCF and yeah, the default is huge. I cant remember what the name of the font is now, it might be credit text or something like that.

I know my VGUI altered it and made the size a little more sane.

i really dont mind the size... but i wanna try to make the font different

Well you can change that in the theme res file. Sadly i've got mentally blank and cant remember where it is! Its in the resources file in the GCF though - its the main theme one I recall.

ok, so here are the res files in the resource folder:

ClientScheme
GameMenu
TrackerScheme
OptionSubAudio
OptionSubMouse
OptionSubMultiPlayer

also, how the heck would i open one of these???

Off-Topic:

LOL love the warning under your sig :-P

It would be located in the clientscheme.res if anywhere, under the fonts section...I froget which one though...
just set a different font for each one, start up the game do a csay and you'll know :p

Arent we being helpful. lol

I'll try and check this weekend for you.

Good news is I used my noodle and remembered it was in the trackerscheme.res file not the clientscheme.res...
so here it is...


"CreditsFont"
{
"1"
{
"name" "Trebuchet MS"
"tall" "18"
"weight" "600"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Arial"
"tall" "18"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

"Legacy_CreditsFont" // Added to accomodate 3rd party server plugins, etc. This version should not scale.
{
"1"
{
"name" "Trebuchet MS"
"tall" "20"
"weight" "700"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
"yres" "1 10000"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Arial"
"tall" "20"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

And for those that don't have the trackerscheme.res here it is (the default version that comes with dod)

TrackerScheme.res (http://s91961834.onlinehome.us/scripts/clickcount/click.php?id=5)


I remember little form the TrackerScheme.res editing days, but I do remember that I had some problems with I edited both the clienscheme.res and the trackerscheme.res...

Maybe that was from my lack of xp. back in the first days of steam dod...but if you do have some problems try putting the credits font info into the clientscheme.res and see if it works...might be instresting...should work in theory...

Anyways I have helped the world now could someone please send me this font in return? Square 721 BT
pretty please with a cherry on top? :p

Originally posted by Rommels
Anyways I have helped the world now could someone please send me this font in return? Square 721 BT
pretty please with a cherry on top? :p

Thanks for the font...I installed it and replaced everyfont in clientscheme.res and trackerscheme.res with it and went into dod...my admin text was still the same :\
so I csayed and tsayed to my little hearts content and it my eye's weren't lyin' the admin text was still the default...nothing in the tracker or client changed it...arrrr

one of my other ideas is to extract al the res files from all my gcf's and change the font names in all of them and see waht happens (the dod team can't stand not being different, annoys me)

I have a couple other ideas also

BTW, loved that steam installer page you got, that with the forum post i also read and now I got a my scoreboard fix an installer :p

well romm, i did what you saids the first time and it worked. make sure you have the name in right.

i just edited the first one of "creditsfonts" and "legacy_creditfonts" fonts

Yeah I skipped that step :p
I just overwrote them all...thats what I get...my stupid dod takes forever to boot up and shut down...

Time to get rid of that nasty admin text font :p


Hmmmmm....I went and changed the Trebuchet MS to Square721 BT in the trackerscheme.res and left the arial's alone...didn't work...

did you change the font in the trackerscheme.res or add the code to the clientscheme.res?

"CreditsFont"
{
"1"
{
"name" "abduction" // admin text
"tall" "12"
"weight" "600"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Arial"
"tall" "18"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

"Legacy_CreditsFont" // Added to accomodate 3rd party server plugins, etc. This version should not scale.
{
"1"
{
"name" "abduction" // Admin Text - 2
"tall" "14"
"weight" "700"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
"yres" "1 10000"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Arial"
"tall" "20"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}



^ thats ALL i chaged to get the admin text working. im tryin to find the one that changes the type text now...

thats the trackerscheme.res file

I can't get that credits text for the life of me...The font name has to be spelled right as it changes my hudtext (chat text) Do you think you could load up that square 721 bt font and see if it works for you... Download (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/attachment.php?postid=93016)

The type text a.k.a. hud text is in the clientscheme.res...
the very last three things in the fonts section...

"HudFontSmall" //Hud Font when cl_hudfont is set to 0
{
"1"
{
"name" "Square 721 BT"
"tall" "12"
"weight" "600"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Verdana"
"tall" "12"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

"HudFont" //Hud Font when cl_hudfont is set to 1
{
"1"
{
"name" "Square 721 BT"
"tall" "14"
"weight" "600"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Verdana"
"tall" "14"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "300"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

"HudFontBig" //Hud Font when cl_hudfont is set to 2
{
"1"
{
"name" "Square 721 BT"
"tall" "16"
"weight" "600"
"range" "0x0000 0x017F" // Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement, Latin Extended-A
"antialias" "1"
}
"2"
{
"name" "Verdana"
"tall" "16"
"range" "0x0000 0x00FF"
"weight" "600"
"dropshadow" "1"
}
}

}

aight, il try that when i get home. as for the chat text, is there a way to keep the names the default font but change the chat to a diff one?

The font needs to be in your system/fonts folder. You can define a new font in either the clientscheme or trackerscheme I think. From there it has an alias which you use in the res file.

I did put it in ym system fonts folder, The font shows up for my chat text in game, and if I change all the fonts names in clientscheme.res to it they all change but it won't change the credits font in the trackerscheme.res... :\

I did put it in ym system fonts folder

it should be C:\Windows\FONTS not system

thats what I ment, it is there and has been.

As I said, the font shows up for every thing I change in the clientscheme, but when I put it in the tracker it does nothing...

i did it and it worked... but the font looks real close the the default font... i think thats your problem... cause mine looked the exact same as yours

Doesn't look like the default to me...should look like THIS (http://forums.steampowered.com/forums/attachment.php?postid=90074)

I don't know, it is annoying though..