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stealthycow

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Changing font color of specific messages? Possible?
« on: May 01, 2012, 12:52:18 AM »
With all the paragraph-long messages about lords defecting, being exiled, experience gained from training + soldiers leveling up, etc., sometimes a lot of things get lost/ignored in the message list, especially when I'm ctrl-space to travel across the map. Normally it's okay, I don't particularly need to know that boyar whatever is now jarl whatever at all times.

But then there are other things which I would definitely like to know, and would love to be highlighted. In particular: enemies being spotted. Important to know, important to know as soon as it happens. Also, looks exactly like every other message in the window. And is often lost in the onslaught of defecting and exiled lords.


Basically: is it possible to change this? Changing font size was easy enough, but I looked through other font documents and there's nothing really there (well there's a lot of stuff there but it's all code you can't easily figure out unlike font_Size=82). And I imagine it's probably harder (if possible at all...) to single out specific events and change something about them rather than a general thing like size. 

So, anyone? Maybe a mod that does this I didn't find searching?

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Re: Changing font color of specific messages? Possible?
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2012, 01:04:05 AM »
Font size in the game is of uniform size and controlled by 1 value in the fonts.xml file in the Data folder. This isn't what you're looking for.

It is quite possible to change the color of any of the scrolling messages, though, if not the size. But, unfortunately, there is no easy way to change message colors without using the scripting/modding language, the module system.
As for mods that do this, Custom Commander (and thus all compilations that include it) adds some color to some messages (red/green to negative/positive changes in relations, honor, XP for instance) but not really to the ones you are mentioning.