Making chat smaller

[Gorath]

1. Go to: mountblade warband\Data

2. open "font_data" as notepad

3. change "font_size" to a larger number for a smaller font, I currently use "100"

"<FontData width="2048" height="1024" padding="10" font_size="70" font_scale="100" line_spacing="100">"

[Mover76]

Thank you sir this is useful info =)

[Airith]

100 was way too small for me, went to 80. Might go to 75 even.

[Gorath]

100 was way too small for me, went to 80. Might go to 75 even.

Time for thicker coke bottles?   

[Dyval]

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[Gorath]

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[Dyval]

You ass. What did u do to my car?

[Gorath]

Nom nom nom

[Lobster]

HI,  What do we open it with ? I opened it in note pad, when i change it to 100 and hit save it said excess denied...

i use win7 64


not greatlly clued up in stuff like this...thx for any help in advance.

[Gorath]

HI,  What do we open it with ? I opened it in note pad, when i change it to 100 and hit save it said excess denied...

i use win7 64


not greatlly clued up in stuff like this...thx for any help in advance.

I used notepad to do this (as noted in the OP).  I also run win7 64bit.  Perhaps you forgot to do it as administrator?  Only thing I can think of since we use the same OS and it worked for me but not for you.

[jspook]

does this shrink ALL the annoying text???  I play in 1920x1080, and some of that other really large text over the interface is annoying.....

[Gorath]

does this shrink ALL the annoying text???  I play in 1920x1080, and some of that other really large text over the interface is annoying.....

It just makes the actual chat text smaller (everything that shows up in your chat log).  xp-gold gains, kills, team chat, all-chat, etc.

[Gorath]

HI,  What do we open it with ? I opened it in note pad, when i change it to 100 and hit save it said excess denied...

i use win7 64


not greatlly clued up in stuff like this...thx for any help in advance.

Ok, after looking at possible solutions I would like to suggest that you try the following.

Right click "font_data"
Click on properties
Go to the Security tab
Select Users
Where it says "Change permissions"  Click "Edit"
Go through each user type (Admin, users, system) and check "Full Control" for each of them.
Click Apply
Click Ok

Now open your font_data in notepad, edit it, and click save.  Should work now.

[Dach]

Also usefull to make it bigger, when you're playing on your 50inch TV and sitting 10 feet from it. 

Gorath: Sadly for you this post merit a +1 to your troll score 

[Tai Feng]

How do I add black background to chat letters so that chat is easier to read?

Now that would be good tweak.