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  • Zur
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Topic: New Client - QOL Improvements - Larger Chat

Hey everyone, here are the first Quality Of Life improvements I have made for myself regarding the new client.

For safety reasons, i'm not posting any files... but rather, i'll just tell you what to change.

Now, I have the game set to play at 1600x900, fullscreen. Takes advantage of the increased screen coverage we get, without going all the way to 1920x1080 and making some things too tiny. The changes I made work with absolute values. While they do sort of work with smaller resolutions, and work with 1920x1080, using a resolution other than 1600x900 will require tweaking. Thankfully, you'll learn how to do it here.

You can set a custom resolution by editing the Settings.User.xml in the Gui folder in your main Faldon directory.

Larger, easier to read Say/Emote chat.
Open your Faldon folder and navigate to > Gui > Interfaces.
Open the Says And Emotes.xml in a text editor, such as Notepad++
In the 7th line, you'll see <Integer Key="Font.Size.Default" Value="xx"/>. Change that value to 20.
In the 11th line, you'll see <String Key="Font.Default" Value="Default"/>. Change Default to Bold. (Capital B)
Save that file.

Larger, easier to read Chat Box & Status message area.
Adjusting the Status Message Area:
Open your Faldon folder and navigate to > Gui > Interfaces.
Open the Status Message Area.xml in a text editor, such as Notepad++
In the 4th line, you'll see <Integer Key="Font.Size.Default" Value="xx"/>. Change that value to 18
In the 7th line, you'll see <Integer Key="Offset.Y" Value="-xx"/>. Change that value to -52
In the 10th line, you'll see <String Key="Font.Default" Value="Default"/>. Change Default to Bold. (Capital B)
Save that file.

Adjusting the Chat Box - This one i'll just post the code to replace it with.
Navigate to > Gui > Forms > Lower Game Toolbar.
Open the Layout.xml in a text editor, such as Notepad++. Ignore the Layout.old.xml
Scroll down to line 246. You'll want to highlight lines 246 to 252 and paste this over them (you can also just compare side by side and make changes)

  <Container Key="Chat Container" Width="720" Height="160" AcceptsZChange="False" StartPosition="Bottom" YOffset="-57"
             Transparent="True" PickChildrenOnly="True">
    <ListBox Key="Chat History" X="0" Y="0" Width="720" Height="124" AutoScrollDown="True" Selectable="False"
             Transparent="True" PickChildrenOnly="True"
             LeftReverseIndent="10" ScrollsToEnd="True" Style="Strong"/>

    <CommandLine Key="Chat Message" TabIndex="1" X="0" Y="140" Width="720" Height="16" FirstCharacterFilter="!,1234567890`^!@#$%^^&amp;*() " Style="Strong"/>

There are others I may post shortly big_smile

Last edited by Zur (July 26th, 2020 5:01 PM)

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