Larger Font Thread - Ultimate Apocalypse Mod (DOW SS) for Dawn of War

As someone with terrible eyesight, I've noticed that I have lots of problems reading the text, which is a shame because there's so much of it! I'm sure there are others with the same problem and I would just love an option for a larger font for people with similar eyesight problems.

Unfortunately, for the mod, it will not be possible as it is directed for the DOW engine, but, I will keep this in mind for creating my actual game as that is a good idea.

Shame, but thank you for keeping that in mind!

Changing the font size is actually possible for the original game as well as dark crusade. Have a look at this post from a steam forum:

Steamcommunity.com

I found the solution! My OS is 8.1 Pro and I had the same tiny text in chat, game etc problem in Soulstorm and couldn't solve issue by even decreasing the resolution. The solution is very simple. You only need to change few .ini files within "Dawn of War Soulstorm\Engine\Locale\English\data" folder by opening with notepad. You gotta change the font lines numbers to a larger numbers as 30 or 40.

Here is the ready edited files you need to simply place into your game folder and click replace and you'll be all set with nice big fonts:
Drive.google.com

NOTE: this only works in English version of the game,(don't forget to backup files that are going to be replaced, just in case)

The download works, but the font size is to large now. So I changed all font sizes in the .fnt files (those are text config files) to 25, and I also replaced all those fonts with verdana by copying / renaming for the 3 font files. I did this because the fonts in the pack don't provide special characters in my language. Still there are some special characters missing in the main menu and map, seems another font config is missing. Still I got the special chars in 90% of all texts and they are perfectly readable in 1920x1080.

This works even though I originally didn't have a subfolder "data" in the locale/language directory. I just copied the data folder from the download there.