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[ghostdog]

This mod offers bigger fonts for Baldur's Gate 2 SOA/TOB , tutu/BGT. The fonts will be used in the dialog window, floating text, item descriptions and Journal. Recommended for resolutions higher or equal to 1024x768.

Screenshots :





To install this mod, simply extract everything into your main BG2 directory and run the Setup-BG2-Bigger-Fonts.exe. If you want to use the widescreen mod then the fonts should be installed AFTER the widescreen mod. To uninstall, run the executable again and choose uninstall.

Many thanks to haen for his Font Bam Generator. These fonts are made for the ENGLISH VERSION, they may work on other languages like French, German or Spanish, but it's not guaranteed. Don't ask me to support other language versions or provide different sizes, I won't bother with this mod again. I'm just offering it to you since I had it for a long time in my hard drive.



EDIT:
Some nice people have provided fonts that fully support their Language versions. Just extract these into the override folder of your main BGII directory AFTER you have installed the Bigger Fonts Mod.

• Sephiroth 1311 has created an excellent ITALIAN font. Which can also be used for the FRENCH version and possibly other Latin languages.
• djc has provided a POLISH font, only for the dialog window. If you want the original fonts for the floating text and item descriptions, simply delete toolfont.bam and floattxt.bam from the override directory.
• DenimTornado has provided Russian fonts with Cyrillic support.

(If Winrar refuses to open the rar file, use 7zip. Alternatively you can download a zipped version from here)

Attached Files

•  BG2-Bigger-Fonts.rar   570.64K   18079 downloads
•  Fonts-ITALIAN.rar   25.83K   3332 downloads
•  Fonts-POLISH.zip   12.22K   2321 downloads
•  Fonts-RUSSIAN.zip   40.27K   1319 downloads

Edited by ghostdog, 03 April 2013 - 01:03 PM.

[i30817]

:bro:


:honourblade:

Edited by i30817, 03 November 2011 - 01:22 PM.

[djc]

Polish version norma1.bam. Only this file, because I do not use toolfont.bam and floattxt.bam. I delete these files after installation from override.

Edit 13.11.2011:
Fix file norma1.bam, because DSotSC use ú, à (CúChoinneach, Madadh n'Sgàil).

Attached Files

•  norma1.zip   12.22K   965 downloads

Edited by djc, 13 November 2011 - 01:44 AM.

[Sephiroth 1311]

Thanks, but it seems like this doesn't work very well for my Italian version (special chars are not shown).
I've sent you a PM.

EDIT: Thanks to ghostdog's help, I managed to make a bigger font compatible with the Italian version of Baldur's Gate 2. He'll probably add them to the main post in a matter of hours.

Edited by Sephiroth 1311, 08 July 2012 - 03:28 AM.

[ghostdog]

I've added Sephiroth's ITALIAN fonts and djc's POLISH fonts in the first post. Thanks guys.

[Zireael]

I've added Sephiroth's ITALIAN fonts and djc's POLISH fonts in the first post. Thanks guys.

Yay, yay, yay, I'm downloading it pronto!!! Brilliant job!

[Aranthys]

Oh, and if you can explain to me how to create a new version of these fonts, I'll be happy to do these by myself
I'm a former developer, so I should be able to handle this

Edit.: Nevermind, found out how to create fonts using the tool that was provided to you

Edited by Aranthys, 03 January 2012 - 02:57 AM.

[ggallegher]

Winrar's giving me an "archive is in unknown format or damaged" error when I try to open the BG2-Bigger-Fonts.rar file attached to ghostdog's first post. This is regardless of whether I try downloading it first then opening it, or opening it straight from the page, and regardless of browser used. I've tried a few other .rar files, old ones on the local drive and new ones freshly downloaded, and Winrar has no problem opening those. I've tried some other .rar extraction utilities, and they've not been able to open it either.

Halp.

[hook71]

I tried and had no problems downloading the file with IE9 and unpacking with 7-Zip 9.20.

[ggallegher]

Yep, confirming 7-Zip seems to do the trick. Thanks, hook71.

[ghostdog]

Yeah for some strange reason winrar shows an error (previously it opened fine, maybe it's because if the site's relocation). 7zip on the other hand opens it without problems. I'll re-upload it here in zip format :

Attached Files

•  BG2-Bigger-Fonts.zip   580.9K   2021 downloads

Edited by ghostdog, 29 January 2012 - 11:26 AM.

[Quester]

Anyone interested in picking this up and tweaking it so the text is a little smaller (and perhaps a font more similar to the original, too)? I'd do it myself but I have no idea how. Ideally, the mod would allow the user to choose between 3-4 different font sizes.

[William Imm]

How-bout do it in a similar way to your Planescape GUI mod? Even on a 1440x900 screen the fonts seem a little big...

[William Imm]

Also, you may want to add some accented glyphs to the English font - as even in the English version of the game, some mods use accented charcaters, and show up blank. Eg: CúChoinneach from DSotC shows up as C Choinneach, Kivan uses "näive" in one of his banters, etc.

[Quester]

Well I tried using haen's fontbam generator in the linked thread to create a new font to put in the override after installing ghostdog's Bigger Fonts mod. But I can't make it work. What I wanted to try was to use the font Constantia (regular, at size 12) which comes with Windows 7. It looks somewhat similar to the original font used in BG, I think. But I can't make this work. Anyone?

[Quester]

I finally succeeded in making some new fonts. These are much smaller than the fonts included with this mod, yet still quite legible at 2560x1440 resolution which is what I use.



Sorry for the huge image. To use these, install the mod in the first post (after Widescreen mod) and then just put the files in your override, replacing what's currently there.

Try them out and tell me what you think. Also, let me know if you have any suggestions for better fonts to use. I did try to find the original BG text font but was unable to do so, so I chose some other nice looking fonts (IMO). Please tell me if you know the name of the original, though.

Attached Files

•  fonts.7z   11.08K   1302 downloads

[hook71]

It's a problem with the forum software at present. Unpack the file with 7-zip instead or remove the x0A at the beginning of the file with a hex editor.