How do I change the font size of pbp?

[SunDevil]

Thanks

[1998 Yankees]

It's not possible from within the game, even by going to the Configuration folder through Game Preferences. I thought of swapping out the fonts that are in the data/fonts folder with others that you would rename the same as the originals, but I don't think that would change the size, whatever font you use. However, if you are adventurous, you might want to try this:

Change font

See battists' post. Now, that was a year and a half ago and a prior game version, but I just checked; the structure is still the same. Also, battists was talking about game screen font but you can find similar files in another skin folder: \data\skins\ootp modern\style_sets\game_screen_pbp

In there are files called control_panel.ss and commentary_box.ss that both have the following parameters that battists was talking about:

font_x_sz
14
font_y_sz
14

Now listen up. I HAVE NOT DONE THIS MYSELF and I don't care to experiment. So, I would advise you to:

1) BACK UP YOUR CURRENT LEAGUE(S),
2) BACK UP YOUR SKIN FOLDER(S), and
3) BE PREPARED TO UNINSTALL AND REINSTALL OOTP IF NECESSARY if you care to proceed.

Tinkerer Beware!

[SunDevil]

Thanks. I will let you know if it worked.

[1998 Yankees]

Hey! Be careful out there . . .

[SunDevil]

That did not change the font size.

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
11
font_y_sz
11

But I might have to give the font_id a value instead of -1 as usually, -1 either means ignore or null, so the game could first check the id value and see that it is -1 and so it would never read the font size changes.

Anybody else want to weight in?

[StyxNCa]

After making the changes you need to delete the skin.bin file then restart the game which is the file on the bottom of the list in the skin folder.

[1998 Yankees]

Originally Posted by StyxNCa

After making the changes you need to delete the skin.bin file then restart the game which is the file on the bottom of the list in the skin folder.

Yes, that was in battists' post that I referred to. You may just want to rename the old file to something like oldskin.bin, but you do have to make a new skin.bin file for any skin modifications to work. The game does this automatically when you start OOTP again, and it make take several minutes so be patient.

[SunDevil]

Unfortunately, none of the suggestions worked.

I tried this file:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen\pbp_text.ss

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
10
font_y_sz
10
font_name
verabd

I also tried this file:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen_pbp\commentary_box.ss

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
10
font_y_sz
10
font_name
verabd

I deleted the skin.bin file in here:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue

And I made sure to exit the game before making these changes and restarting the game. I also switched between skins to see if that changed anything and it did not.

[StyxNCa]

Originally Posted by SunDevil

Unfortunately, none of the suggestions worked.

I tried this file:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen\pbp_text.ss

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
10
font_y_sz
10
font_name
verabd

I also tried this file:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen_pbp\commentary_box.ss

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
10
font_y_sz
10
font_name
verabd

I deleted the skin.bin file in here:
C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue

And I made sure to exit the game before making these changes and restarting the game. I also switched between skins to see if that changed anything and it did not.

Maybe Markus can respond. There are several font settings for different parts of the game and it seems the ones you're changing aren't the correct ones.

[SunDevil]

So after playing around with this, I was able to remove the bold font, but still can not change the size.

C:\Program Files\Out of the Park Developments\OOTP Baseball 9\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen\pbp_text.ss

font_id
-1
font_x_sz
4
font_y_sz
4
font_name
vera

So it was this file, and I just removed the bd at the end of vera and the pbp text does look a lot better, but still no luck in changing the actual size of the text.

It honestly looks like Markus disabled the font size, or again, I have to change the font_id from -1 to an actual value of some sort.

It would be nice if Markus could chime in and verify whether the font size is being ignored and if there is a way to customize it.

Thanks for all the feedback and help everyone.

[pstrickert]

I changed the font and the size (after adding the new font to the Fonts folder in OOTP). Here's what it looks like:

[SunDevil]

Yep that works.

..\data\skins\ootp blue\style_sets\game_screen\pbp_text.ss
font_id
-1
font_x_sz
10
font_y_sz
10
font_name
arial

Grabbed the C:\Windows\Fonts\arial.ttf file and pasted it in the data/fonts directory.

Thanks for the help.

[1998 Yankees]

This was a good thread - it worked out well as a team project.

BTW pstrickert, thanks for posting that picture of Oscar Gamble. It brought back pleasant memories of my youth when I would wonder how the heck he stuffed that 'fro into a batting helmet.