Customizing Starcraft II Fonts

[BlueBerryWizard]

I can not figure out how to use my own imported fonts in place of the default Starcraft II fonts in my map. Anyone know or are able to find the path I should set my font to? I've looked all over the Internets on how to do this & I've tried to open the .mpq's with war3model editor but it wouldn't let me open up the individual files contained within (although it did list em'). The text editor doesn't appear to let you change the fonts either & the data editor has nothing.

This may be useful: http://darkblizz.org/wiki/doku.php?id=files_and_folders ...

Note: I'm not trying to mod my Starcraft II's fonts; just the fonts used in my SCII map.

Edit: http://forums.sc2mapster.com/development/tutorials/2017-misc-text-styles-75-done/ might also be helpful.

 

[Arhowk]

i dont think you can..

 

[mrzwach]

You can.

Uhh, grab an mpq editor, and go into your Starcraft 2 Folder -> Mods -> Core, then open soemthing along the lines of GameData.SC2Data or something like that with your mpq editor. It should have a UI folder inside, and a file called FontStyles.SC2Styles. Open this in notepad.

It basically appears to contain all the information for the various styles present in game. It also has a list of fonts, which you could potentially replace, or you could add your own. I haven't messed with it yet, but its worth a shot.

 

[BlueBerryWizard]

You can.

Uhh, grab an mpq editor, and go into your Starcraft 2 Folder -> Mods -> Core, then open soemthing along the lines of GameData.SC2Data or something like that with your mpq editor. It should have a UI folder inside, and a file called FontStyles.SC2Styles. Open this in notepad.

It basically appears to contain all the information for the various styles present in game. It also has a list of fonts, which you could potentially replace, or you could add your own. I haven't messed with it yet, but its worth a shot.

I'm try to do as you told me right now but I just can't find a "GameData.SC2Data" thing anywhere. Also, wouldn't adding your own fonts to that not show up for other people playing your map?

Edit: There appears to be a bl.ttf thing in here, maybe if I can get its path I can overwrite it in my map

Edit 2: Importing a font as bl.ttf failed to work & raped meh import manager. x_X

Edit 3: Found something very useful, file attached ^^.

 

[Statharas]

You do know that you can't import files that way. Right? Riiiiight? You can only use an MPQ editor for that job.

 

[BlueBerryWizard]

Could you make an example map that has custom fonts working in it? I can't get custom fonts working in my map... >.<