This is a simple upscale of the fonts used by the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod to suit 4K+ resolutions more appropriately, which means they are no longer tiny at such resolutions.
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S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly Fonts for 4K+ Resolutions (v1.0)
by René Kuhs
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Description:
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This is a simple upscale of the fonts used by the S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly mod to suit 4K+ resolutions more appropriately, which means they are no longer tiny at such resolutions. This font size suits 5K as well if you are familiar with, or used to, the stock font size at 1440p (they are the same size).
Please note that the fonts are upscaled, meaning that they will be slightly "blurry" at 4K+ since they are the same as stock fonts, simply doubled in size. If there is demand, and someone can identify the name of the font(s) used by Anomaly, I may put effort and time into finding the actual source of the Anomaly fonts and implementing them at 4K natively which means that they would be genuinely "UHD", as oppose to upscaled.
Other than that, enjoy!
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Installation:
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Like most other mods, simply drop the "gamedata" folder into the root S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Anomaly directory. There should not be anything to overwrite unless you are using Marty2Base's fonts, or have edited the fonts yourself.
If you are using Marty2Base's fonts and have overwritten them with the fonts from this mod, you MUST delete "gamedata/configs/fonts.ltx" from the game directory, otherwise, these fonts will not show.
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Miscellaneous:
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There is already a 4K font mod by Marty2Base for the stock S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games, some other mods, and even CoC which do work with Anomaly, but the fonts are different to the Anomaly fonts and do not support the coloured bullet points in the item descriptions (that show up when you hover your mouse over an item in your inventory) and generally look a lot worse than the stock Anomaly fonts, in my opinion.
I'm surprised that there are still no S.T.A.L.K.E.R. mods that support bigger fonts for 4K and beyond, natively. It is puzzling that GSC used a pixel-scaled fonts system in the first place, although they can be forgiven since the games were developed at a time where the highest resolution even possible was 1600x1200 (hence the name "1600" as the "highest" resolution font in S.T.A.L.K.E.R. games).
Please inform me if there are any issues with the fonts, with as much info as possible (logs, screenshots, etc) and I'll address them ASAP, if possible.
*Changed the name to avoid confusion -- these are not 4K fonts, but fonts for 4K resolutions. Hope no one was led astray, my apologies if you were.
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Changelog:
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v1.0:
- Initial Release
Very cool, thank you! Like you, I tried out Marty's mod and felt that the fonts just didn't suit Anomaly at all.
I installed and now my anomolly is stuck zoomed in on the main menu? How can i fix this?
Not sure I understand what you mean, could you provide a screenshot?
This was actually me commenting off my phone without realising that I wasn't logged in.
Like at the main menu, im still fullscreen but the parameters of the screen are stretched. Game freezes after trying to load game.
If you have discord i can screenshare!
I don't really have it set up. If you could send me a screenshot of the main menu and the logs from the game directory (appdata/logs) after the game freezes/crashes, that should be enough for me to figure out what's going on.
its not letting me screenshot, i can take a picture with my hpone if that'll work. Every textbox and UI text in the main menu is enlargened. The text overlaps eachother when i go to load a game
What resolution is your game set to?
1920x1080
Ah, there's your problem. These fonts are only intended for 4k+ resolutions, such as 3840x2160 or 5120x2880. If you read the description, you'll see that these fonts are merely upscaled, i.e. doubled in size. At 1920x1080, the fonts will be way too big, as you've noticed.
To uninstall, simply delete all files in "gamedata/textures/ui" that start with "ui_font_...". That should solve your problems.
I've actually since changed the name of the mod since I realised that the name could be misleading, which probably happened in your case
GOD BLESS YOUR SOUL! Thank you, this was it.
I have the old Korean fonts for stalkers, but many Koreans these days mostly have 4k, so they are inconvenient. How do I make it for 4k It's so difficult.
Hi there! How did you transform both the dds files and the ini files? I would like to make a 1440p version of this. At 1440p resolution the font is still smaller than it should be I think.
If you could just send me in the right direction, I'll do it myself and you won't have to upload a 1440p version... I would also like to do the same for the other games in the series, so if you used a script or something that would be more helpful to me.
Thank you in advance! :)
Edit:
I now did it myself using a mixture of GIMP 2 (for scaling the original font images one by one by a factor of 1.5) and Excel/Notepad++ (for multiplying all the values in the original .ini files for the fonts). It was quite a bit of work which I probably could have cut by a lot had I used a script. But it is done. Much like the version by rene13cross uploaded here it is a slight bit blurry but I'm very happy with how it turned out.
Uploaded my version here:
Moddb.com
Been away from the Stalker scene for a while and just seen this. Just wanted to tell you well done!
Also, regarding the way you did the upscaling was basically the same as what I ended up doing, except I actually went so far as writing a Perl script to handle the INI files. I wish I had shared it back then which would've made your job a lot easier but, for whatever it's worth, here it is now: Pastebin.com
Feel free to use/share/plagiarise however you see fit.
Hey there! Thanks for sharing the script, even after I had already finished my brute-force approach. Better late than never. I'm sure this will come in handy one day. Thank you so much! :)
I have the old Korean fonts for stalkers, but many Koreans these days mostly have 4k, so they are inconvenient. How do I make it for 4k It's so difficult.
Thanks for sharing this with the community. I can finally tell how many items I have stacked in my inventory without leaning forward and squinting.
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Hi I'd also like to know if this is compatible with 1.5.2
As long it doesn't change files that 1.5.2 changes it will work.
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Now I can put down my binoculars.
Good work, Stalker.
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I’m not sure it’s possible, but I’d like to only apply the bigger font to the PDA.
It’s far better to read that way, but as side effect the rest of the texts became too big. =(