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Bayaraa edited this page Jul 23, 2023 · 4 revisions

Switch all text parts in game to high-definition texts. Since version 1.2.0 you can load your custom created font atlases.
Following steps to add custom font to D2GL's HD Text.

  • Download HDText.zip and extract somewhere (for reference extracted into C:\).
    Inside zip:
    • export\: generated atlases and glyph data will saved in this folder.
    • charset\: charset files that required to create font atlas.
    • fonts\: this just reference folder for fonts.
    • gen.exe: Chlumsky's msdf-atlas-gen executable. This is actual atlas generation tool.
    • gen.py: this is python script you have to run to create multiple atlases once (needs python installed).
  • Download desired font from somewhere and put into C:\HDText\fonts\ folder.
  • Open windows terminal and go to C:\HDText\ folder.
    • Run python gen.py charset\latin_cyrillic.txt fonts\Arial.ttf
  • Atlas directory is assets\atlases\ in data folder of your D2 (if you open d2gl.mpq you will see).
    Create direcory (ex: FontABC) in this location and copy all files from C:\HDText\export\ to FontABC\ directory.
  • Now time to adjustments. Put one of these config files into assets\atlases\.
  • Then start editing config file. File structure:
    ID | FontName | Size | Weight | LetterSpacing | LineHeight | ShadowIntensity | OffsetX | OffsetY | SymbolOffset
    • First change font names (last part of each line) then save.
      0 | FontABC | 10.800 | 1.081 | 0.102 | 1.420 | 0.400 | 0.050 | -0.280 | 0.000
    • Second change other parts. Except font name you can change each part by hand.
      But i created custom build of D2GL can help adjusting font. Put glide3x.dll into D2 folder from zip archive.
      Run game with usual -3dfx and open option (CTRL+O) you can see additional tab HD Text.
      Adjust each font and copy text and save into font config file.

HD Text Font IDs

Font ID Description
0 Character life/mana/stamina texts on stats panel
1 All Normal texts
2 Character create screen title / Esc menu smaller texts
3 Character selection title / Esc menu bigger texts
4 Skill Tree level number (2 digits)
5 Menu screen copyright text
6 All Small texts (smallest)
7 Menu screen popup titles
8 NPC talking Text
9 Menu Button label
10 Menu Button label (smaller)
11 ? (Seems unused)
12 ? (Seems unused)
13 Messages / Heads up bubble text / Keybind configs
14 Tooltip text (items/skills/units etc) (Custom)
15 Tooltip text smaller (when text is bigger than screen) (Custom)
16 Dropped items label (Custom)
17 Level/Class text on char selection screen (Custom)
18 Level Entry text (Custom)
19 Minimap first line text/clock/fps counter (Custom)
20 Monster resistances text on hp bar (Custom)
21 Unused: For future reference (Custom)
22 Unused: For future reference (Custom)

HD Text Symbols

Symbols use google's Noto Sans Symbol font. Atlas generation is same as font atlas generation. Added column(last column SymbolOffset) in font config file that can adjust symbol's Y coordinate of offset. Because it uses different font that might need additional adjustment. Followint symbols can be used in HD text:

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sym Ex: String TBL edited for horadric cube:
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** Symbols don't work with BH.dll (map hack) unless made changes in BH source to support utf16 texts.

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