Now taking FONT requests!

[CHA_Owner]

Map Font Requests

~Here you can request any master font you want for your warcraft 3 custom map the only catches are:

1. FONT must be from this website http://www.dafont.com
2. I will be using and external file to insert this so if you want any other interface changes you might not want to use this.

Feel free to request any font from the website although some might not work in that case i will just inform you to choose another.

This will harm your map in no way and the largest master font file i have found is only 50kb.

+rep and full credits to me "CHA_Owner(NAMM)" if i insert this into your map for you.

~You will have no need to worry about sending me your maps i will not rip them off or edit them in any way other than inserting these fonts.

If you dont want everyone downloading your map also then just send me a PM with your map telling me which font you want.

+rep and full credits to me "CHA_Owner(NAMM)" if i insert this into your map for you.

 

[CHA_Owner]

--==BUMP==--

Really no one wants custom font in their map it makes them look so much better.

 

[Fingolfin]

I would like to know how you are implementing your fonts into the map.
I have a font that i want to use for one of my maps, but i can't find a decent way of importing it. There is also no chance i am giving the map out to anyone.

 

[CHA_Owner]

Make a file called war3mapSkin.txt inside that file put this:

[CustomSkin]
MasterFont=Name of font
MessageFont=Name of font
ChatFont=Name of font
EscMenuTextFont=Name of font
InfoPanelTestFont=Name of font
TextTagFont=Name of font

Save your map your done also remeber that the font mucht come with numbers/letters/symbols not just letters like some do.

 

[Fingolfin]

So.. i import my font through the import manager, then i write it's path where it says "Name of font"?
Is there something i should put where you write [CustomSkin], or should it be like that?
Thanks in beforehand.

 

[CHA_Owner]

leave the [customskin] thing alone and yes you are correct replace the font name with the full name of the font you imported.

good luck

 

[Fingolfin]

One last thing.. where am i supposed to put the text file?
Should i import it, or put it in the editor directory?

 

[Frunck]

Import and change path to war3mapSkin.txt?

 

[Fingolfin]

Ah, ok thanks.

EDIT: Thanks, works like a charm! +rep!
But how do you change the font used for things like unit names and chat?

 

[CHA_Owner]

Well im shure that goes down to what you set the name as.

heres an example:

|cff995500Text|r <<< changes color of text so theres probably a code similar to color codes which changes boldness/size/font/etc.

i will look further into this and see what i can come up with.

EDIT*

Here check this tutorial about color codes and fonts:

http://www.thehelper.net/forums/showthread.php?t=138460

thats the last thing i can tell you i cant figure out how to do this ill check more into the customskin for warcraft to see if it can also be changed by an external file.

 

[Fingolfin]

I'm pretty sure it cannot be changed with tags like that, you're propably mixing this up with html and such.
No, warcraft uses a set of about five fonts for the game, and i was thinking on wether you'd add more titles in the .txt - though i noticed it had a line called "ChatFont", so it should be overwriting chat, only it doesn't.
But as for now, i am pretty pleased.

 

[CHA_Owner]

Alright ill check into it like i said and thanks for the feedback

EDIT*

kk i found out the the ChatFont part is just the part of the chat bar the says "Message:" you cant change the actuall enterd chat unless you use a customly designed chat system which shows up as quest hints or something like that.

and as for the characters names i am still looking into that hope this helps

 

[CBX Entertainment]

chat and hovering text fonts are changed after you play the map once (aka the second time you play it IN A ROW)
just like the thing with the computer players and races (they also change after you play a map twice, but not at the first time)


if you want to have that changed, create a mod.... or write some angry emails to blizzard


anyway: @ creator dude
i hope you know that there is a way to make further changes on the ui possible, after you changed the font?

all you got to do is delete the imported war3skin.txt after you have changed the font

 

[CHA_Owner]

Yes i know of everything you can change in the mapskin file but this thread was meant to be a request thread for putting custom fonts into maps which it just turned out to be more of a tutorial than anything.

 

[CBX Entertainment]

yep

cause if you have NewGen We there is already a new field for changing the font anyway

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

View attachment fonts.doc here is font what i need, will send you map over pm. You need to say me names of attached(imported) files that you have add on map, cause i need to import them in map(i want to work on it), and for what is text tag font?

 

[Sorceress]

Lawlz, great idea

 

[CHA_Owner]

View attachment 81378 here is font what i need, will send you map over pm. You need to say me names of attached(imported) files that you have add on map, cause i need to import them in map(i want to work on it), and for what is text tag font?

Well i have actually moved on to SC2 and no longer take requests but just read the first page and you should be able to understand how to do it yourself by all the comments i mean.

 

[88WaRCraFT3]

ok thanks!