Tera Text Size

[TheGameHoarder]

Ok, before anyone tells me to change my UI. I'm not looking for that.

If I change my UI to higher it will clutter my whole screen, right now I have it at 95, and it's perfect, I spent 2 hours tuning this along with the other options.

My screen resolution is 1366x768, 16:9.

I am looking to change just the text size, because it really is small. When I first entered the game b4 I even created the character it was so small I couldn't read anything in the menu. This game let's you change almost every single part of the UI but why the hell doesn't it change only the font of the game, not globally scaling the entire f*** UI, this is absurd.


Please any help! Thank you!

PS: Now I can't click and drag the map, because everytime I reset the game the map moves from the corer that i place it in in the bigger transparent tab corespondent to it. Now I can't even see taht tab.

Man UI costumisation is a f*** chore, better when you can't touch it at all. I am really considering not playing this game anymore because of this, eventhough I love the combat. Well the text size is the main problem, but what the hell it's tied to the UI, so I don't know.

[Sunflare]

Sounds like you're using a rather small screen. Are you playing on a 15'' laptop?

If you increase only text size but not the overall UI, text will simply go out of quest etc pop-up windows. Which is why I think it's not applicable. A screenshot would've helped.

You should consider increasing your UI to 100%, then downscaling individual elements that seem too bulky. You can resize the chat font to your liking, as well as the chat window itself. Text is just fine on a standard size monitor - 19+ inches.

My Scale all UI setting is set to 70 with only HP/MP bars increased to 130, Effect icons to 120 and Crosshairs decreased to 80. 23-inch monitor - not too big, not too small. I even play in windowed mode, because I alt/tab all the time, and there's no delay when you're in windowed (full-screen or custom size) mode.

Regarding your mini-map - there's an option to lock its position. Once you've placed it where you want it to be, go to Options - UI Settings - UI Customization - [check] Lock mini-map location. Make sure the S1Option.ini file is not read-only. Once you've set your options, make that file read-only (and create a copy just in case) to prevent the launcher from replacing it. If you can't see the mini-map anymore, you need to click the Reset UI position button to move it back into its original place. Make sure you haven't set its transparency to 0% btw.

Have fun! o/

[Sunflare]

No reply from OP but maybe someone else also has this problem.

I was made aware of another solution, if anyone's interested. Haven't tested it yet but from what I've seen it should basically deal with the issue.

[TheGameHoarder]

Hey, I've managed with the minimpa, thanks. I had to unlock it, because it allways get locked positon, and the problem was that I needed to drag the actual map in the map UI to the bottom right corner, that was a lucky break.

No I can't get my UI and larger or I'll get the screen cluttered too much. I tried it and couldn't get an adequet setting. Yes I have a 15' leptop. Will never buy a leptop again :).

Any other soultions would be much appreciated.

Thanks for the reply's Sunflare!

[Sunflare]

First, you're welcome!

About your laptop - I guess you bought it for convenience, not for gaming. ^_^
Regarding the minimap - glad you fixed that.
Regarding the text size problem - I still believe my suggestion - to increase overall UI size while decreasing individual UI elements' size, combined with an increased field of view* - should produce the best results. However, there's an alternative but it's nothing close to customising the font - you just replace the default one (EUR) with a somewhat more readable one (INT). This is the end result: click here[imgur.com] for a comparison.

*more on changing one's FoV here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ByKQIMYqcJo

[TheGameHoarder]

Yo man thank you! You're a gamesaver! :)

That's exactly what I needed. Genious, I used the INT one, and it's now acceptable! Great! Thank you so much!

[Sunflare]

Originally posted by TheGameHoarder:

(...) That's exactly what I needed. (...)

Good to hear! \o/

I didn't wanna go into too much detail here how it's done because it's not exactly allowed fiddling with client files. Just wanted to give you enough hints to google it, as it's probably written somewhere already.

Now, there's another minor thing one could do if they are using default settings (not an already tweaked engine file):
1. Head to your game folder - \TERA\Client\S1Game\Config\;
2. Open S1Engine.ini with any text editor;
3. Go to line 30 or search (Ctrl+F) for "TinyFontName";
4. Now edit the values of "TinyFontName", "SmallFontName", "MediumFontName", "LargeFontName" and "SubtitleFontName" to "EngineFonts.LargeFont" for all of them. It should look like this:[i.imgur.com]

TinyFontName=EngineFonts.LargeFont
SmallFontName=EngineFonts.LargeFont
MediumFontName=EngineFonts.LargeFont
LargeFontName=EngineFonts.LargeFont
SubtitleFontName=EngineFonts.LargeFont

5. Save the file with Ctrl+S or upon closing it;
6. Right click on it -> Properties -> check "Read-Only"[i.imgur.com] -> Apply. This is done to make sure the game client doesn't overwrite the file later.

Ideally, you'd do this in conjunction with the font substitution I mentioned above.
This isn't my idea though but I wouldn't mind taking the credit for it as long as you're happy with the final result.

Enjoy!

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setting -> UI Settings -> Scale all UI