Thanks to you, I now see how I could set my UI scaling to be smaller or bigger. Since I play on a laptop at around a screen resolution of 1280x680 (an aspect ratio of 32:17), I've been looking for something like this for a while, especially since I'd accidentally changed the UI scaling to 1x (presumably through one of the mods that I had downloaded and installed).

Now I just have to find some mods that offer slightly upscaled text, since unfortunately, 1x scaling makes small text a bit difficult to read.

i tried out the instructions for the 3x ui scaling mod which is this, i already change the folder you need to open

You may need to copy this mod's contents.pak file to your local mods folder (from Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/211820/1782208070 to Starbound/mods). Something about how it loads from the workshop may prevent it from working when running it from the Workshop (You can rename the contents.pak file in Starbound/mods as desired, so long as it maintains the .pak extension).

The mod still works you just need to move it for it to work UwU

i found a solution! it appears you can go down in scale after you gone up, so i uninstalled starbound (after backing up player and universe), unsubscribed from all mods after making them into a collection, deleting the directory. next install from scratch, and reinstall every mod from collection (besides ui scale ones) and it will return to normal.

what underlying settings does this mod or similar ones edit exactly?

i cant seem to change ui anymore at all. i uninstalled the game completely, re verified files, even with a blank slate i cant change ui with mods or config whatsoever, its too large for my screen, i tried different resolutions and even different monitor sizes (24 in and 32 in) and it is the same size irl across monitors. this is very confusing can anyone help? my inventory when i open is around half of my 24in monitor and it makes the game hardly playable

Not working here either

Joining last two comments. Mod won't work for me (1.4.4)

it doesn't change anything the UI is still same size.

doesnt change anything, ui still same size, things still go off the top of my screen

I installed one of your other mods awhile back and now I cant get it to undo (changed to a smaller screen) is there anyway to undo this?

Thanks

I pushed a tiny update, that does nothing except change the priority for this mod to load, to be later than other mods. Hopefully that helps whomever this wasn't working for.

I'm assuming some unknown mod(s) are replacing interace.config instead of properly patching it, and it normally loaded after this mod thus undoing the changes from it. Well now it (probably) will not do so.

Do you at least explain how to use it

Thanks so much! I needed this since my screen broke and now im using the crappiest monitor ever.

why this not work anymore?

Please bk3000 can fix this is very usefull...

I love you I needed this so bad

Oh I wonder if this would be good for playing SB on steam deck.

Getting this mod doesnt do anything to my interface.

@-=[EB]=- Jonxor
Yeah this is super simple. Just create a text file named interface.config.patch
[
{
"op" : "replace",
"path" : "/minInterfaceScale",
"value" : 3
},
{
"op" : "replace",
"path" : "/maxInterfaceScale",
"value" : 3
}
]
If you have any manually installed mods in \starbound\mods\ that are loose files then just throw it in there.

I have the opposite problem, I have a large resolution monitor, but very poor eyesight for reading. Is there a way to make this scale up, in the opposite direction? To something like 3 or 4x ui scale? Thank you.

Edit: Don't go above 3. The game just crashes for me.

PJRamaglia's fix seems to work (the fix 2 comments below this comment). Make sure to uninstall any UI Scaling mod you have installed before doing those steps though, mine didn't work until I did this step. Also you can edit the UI scale with this method, as 1x was WAY too small for my 1440p display. Edit the minInterfaceScale and the maxInterfaceScale to around 3-4 for a 1440p display. Might need to be a higher number for 4K displays.

For anyone having problems with 4k displays and everything being too small, you can use the unpacker and packer to edit the scale to 4x and it actually works.

Isn't helping for me, with FU.
http://benies-blogs.com/images/firefox_2021-01-08_20-41-57.png

My resolution is 1024x768. Sadly this mod doesn't help with that.

So I combed through the comments in here and I actually got it to work this time. These are the steps that I took:

• I checked my "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\211820" folder and noted the total number of items located within.

• I unsubbed from this mod and then immediately checked the Starbound workshop folder to make sure that my item count was one less than the amount I noted in the above step.

• I resubbed to this mod and immediately checked again the Starbound workshop folder to make sure that my item count was one more this time.

• I navigated to "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\workshop\content\211820\1782208070" and copied the contents.pak file.

• I pasted this file into my "C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Starbound\mods" folder.

• I launched Starbound and noticed immediately the UI was at 1x this time.

So I subscribed to this mod to try to fix my oversized UI (because I can only go as high as 1366x768) but it doesn't seem to working at all. Kind of difficult to pinpoint what the issue might be because I'm also not experiencing any bugs, glitches, and/or crashes.

https://pastebin.com/3yaQjTcj

This is why I starting looking for "1x UI size" mod by the way: https://i.imgur.com/tl4S8J8.png

Viewing my inventory, opening containers (particularly high-slot ones), mech assembly and mech refuel screens, the chat window, as well as the radio messages that pop up in the lower-left corner of the screen are far too big and take up too much "screen real estate" within the game.

12 year old me would have died for something like this

THANK YOU OMG YOURE THE MESSIAH!

the only 3x scale mod on workshop doesn't work :(

can you make a mod that does the opposite ?

thank you!!

Now it does. Somehow got ", on the end of it.

your official forum link doesnt work

The only 3x I was able to find in the workshop is one labeled "UI Scale 3X (Doesn't work yet. Don't use)"

@talik
Yes. I believe 3x UI scaling mods already exist on the workshop, which is why I only uploaded the 1x. Just so everything was covered.

I have the exact opposite problem. On my 4k screen, the text ends up being really small, and off to the corners where it's hard to read. Is there a way to do the opposite that this mod sets out to do? (ie, change the UI, but not the world scalilng)

This sorta works, but only if say your screen resolution is around 1920x1080.
But if it's lower it doesn't work.
As far as I tested at least.

I'll test it. If it works, then maybe bk3000 is right and the mod is not loaded on the right priority

Obviously getting the URL is easier when using a browser, though you can get them by right clicking in the Steam client.

@Insane_Insomniac4
I can make that a little easier for you, starting from
/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/
211820 is Starbound. You can find that on a URL like this one - https://steamcommunity.com/app/211820/workshop/
so
/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/211820/
Then you need the mod ID which you can also get from the URL of the mod page
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1782208070
thus
/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content/211820/1782208070/contents.pak

It works the same for any Workshop mod regardless of what game.

if I JUST download it, it doesn't work...but from what I've found, that's the usual case with most UI scale tweaks for starbound, however, if you download this, then go into your steam files and copy this mod from the workshop section to the starbound mods section, then it works
default paths on windows 10 are C/ProgramFilesx86/Steam/steamapps/workshop/content and C/ProgramFilesx86/Steam/steamapps/common/Starbound
now, if you aren't used to digging around in here, it can be tricky to figure out which mod is this one specifically, but the simplest method is to just unsub/resub this mod then go in and sort by most recent file, which should push this to the top of the list, keep sorting and going into the top folder until you get to the contents.pak and copy paste that into the starbound mods folder on the common path

I just unsubbed to the other mods and the scaling didn't work again. I'm trying it on a 1366x768 screen. I don't know what is the issue. I looked on the log and the scaling mod is being loaded without problems. But that's about it, there are no problems. No errors, nothing.

@Ryūketsu (Linux) #L2G
I doubt it would conflict with anything, unless that mod does full replacement rather than patching. If that was the case (which really isn't the best idea generally), I could make sure this loads after if need be.

But it could also be Steam being annoying about not wanting to download a mod. You could try unsub and resub, restart steam, etc. As for that other mod, you could try temporarily removing it to see if that changes the scaling. If this mod only is working when that mod isn't loaded, let me know and I'll deal with it.

It does not reduce the scaling for me for some reason. Does it conflicts with mods such as Better (C) Interface?

something wrong isn't right!

Win XP 2005

Thank you so much

ok to everyone on windows that this file did not force a UI scale of 1 for, try closing the game going to display settings and setting windows to 100% ui (it may be defaulting to 150%)

@nova ya, their choice of ui scaling is inlogical - small resolution and rly big ui, big resolution and rly small ui (should be opposite).

But using what bk posted and this you can change values 1-3, so you can fix scaling as u want.

{
"op" : "replace",
"path" : "/interfaceCrossoverRes",
"value" : [4096, 3072]
}

@bk Well my native monitor resolution is 1280x1024, i'm using lower res (played on 800x600 mostly) to make it less laggy (or it is a panacea, dunno).

Anyways, with mod u mentioned and commands u provided i managed to change ui scale, so manualy placed file works. Tho scaling acts weird when i tested, and you can't force what u want easily (maybe something with having min max same?), i also used "/interfaceCrossoverRes". Now the thing thats left is to change font size :D

There needs to be a big ui scaling option for higher resolutions. The UI is so tiny on say, 3840x2160.