Text size problem

[Tokimeki [Ñ]]

Hello, I play on a 55" TV, two and a half meters away, and the text of the game is too small, I can't read it. I know the HUD and the inventory can be made bigger, but not the text: could it be made bigger somehow? If not, there's no way I can play it. Thank you.

[Frostphorus]

Text size on 4k TV is tiny

I'm playing on a 4k TV and i cant read a thing on the main menu

[063xela]

Me too

[M'Dic]

I second that. Had to pull out a old laptop to play this game comfortably. I usually play games with a htpc build hooked up to a 50" tv myself.

[goathens]

yes i want this too

[goathens]

I found some stuff in style.xml and had some good effects (like the chat log is readable now!)... and some bad effects. (like some text overlaps because it is too big).

Could devs reference what fonts effect which parts of the UI?

FYI, others in the thread, you can edit c:\\program files(x86)\steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma\Content\UI\style.xml
In that file, search for text: Font. There's a whole block of font info in there, and it assigns each resolution a certain font size. I went through and increased all the font sizes by 50%.

[Flandre Scarlet]

Add font scale! God! Please!

[Dynamoon]

Hi! Font scale as an adjustable setting has now been added to our todo list. I can't give you an estimate yet for when we'll implement it, but it will be a good addition to allow everyone to optimise the text size for the screen they're using without needing to go into the game files, so we hope to get it done soon.

Sorry about the delay in getting back to this thread, these have been busy weeks for our team!

[goathens]

Awesome. editing that txt file was annoying and if I miss a font element, then I end up accidentally making the heading smaller than the popup texts.

PLEASE make it an independent slider from UI and HUD.

I say to make it a new slider because the HUD and UI sliders have a limit to how big they get before the chatbox overlaps with the inventory icons. Some people want a bigger chat box with smaller text, to allow more text in the chats to be visible.

I have thick glasses and sit far from the TV, so I need big text.

[Jinxy Zombie Hyperdrive]

Originally posted by Dynamoon:

Hi! Font scale as an adjustable setting has now been added to our todo list. I can't give you an estimate yet for when we'll implement it, but it will be a good addition to allow everyone to optimise the text size for the screen they're using without needing to go into the game files, so we hope to get it done soon.

Sorry about the delay in getting back to this thread, these have been busy weeks for our team!

Awesome thank you for this.! Love your game!

[Azteca]

thank you , I barely can read the text

[063xela]

Has it been fixed in the new update?

[RiggedQuarter]

Bump for Big Text

[Royal Troglodyte]

another bump for big text. THis game is unplayable for me because of this.

4K on a 65" TV.

[internal static void]

Unfortunately IMO it is still not good enough. At the highest text sizes i still strain to read any of the text.

I think with stuff like this its better to be unsafe than sorry, let us set some stupid font sizes if possible and if it looks a bit messed up, then so be it, player choice right?

[goathens]

Thanks devs for giving us some configurable sliders as we reached the release version.

The slider is limited to 125% text scaling, but there is an easy-to-edit config file that will accept arbitrary and large values. You can edit config_player.xml and mess with the textscale option (100% = "1" ; 140% = "1.4"). Probably should edit this file when the game is not running.

"C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Barotrauma\config_player.xml"

hudscale="1.05"
inventoryscale="1.05"
textscale="1.4"

These are the lines I changed to get good readability on a 58" HDTV (1080p).

The game's settings menu will report the numbers that you've entered, and the game so far does NOT overwrite the settings until I move the sliders around. It's possible to edit once and not worry about it anymore after. The sliders still only go up to 125%. The only annoying part is finding the right size (exit game, edit file, launch game, text is too big, exit game, edit file, etc).