How do I make the menu texts bold?

[WildCard]

In all the menus, equip, skill, etc. the font is really plain and small, I just need to make it bold and I'll be good to go, how do I do that??

 

[BlueScope]

I think neither RMXP nor RMVX have an included feature for that, so yeah... you have a bunch of possibilities to workaround that...

- outline the text with a 1px border, multiply it and shift it around, etc... (all look like shit)
- increase the text size (might not work for the one or other font really)
- modify your font to your needs (requires in-depth knowledge of font editing, and some skill at least)

Since method #2 seems to be the best one for now, I'll explain that to you... go to your Main script (bottom of your script list, I figure you know) and insert this somewhere on the upper half:

Font.default_size = 24

You can play around with that, and you'll notice that in RMXP, for example, the Arial font will be regular on 21, but bold on 22... while that's something that heavily annoys me, it might actually benefit you.

 

[Sarkilas]

If you toss MACL into your game you can use:

self.contents.font.bold = true

Before drawing every command in your menu.

You can get MACL at this thread.

Cheers.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Font.bold is already in the RGSS library by default. Don't even need the MACL for that.

I guess you could do something like this:

class Font
  alias_method :seph_boldmenufont_font_bold, :bold
  def bold
    if [Scene_Menu, Scene_Item, Scene_Skill, Scene_Equip, Scene_Status].include?($scene.class)
      return true
    end
    return seph_boldmenufont_font_bold
  end
end

That should do the trick (in theory).

 

[Sarkilas]

Font.bold is already in the RGSS library by default. Don't even need the MACL for that.

God, I'm such a silly person. I guess I was just rather used to using most of the font extras in MACL I didn't realize this particular effect was there by default.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

I have done it before too.

 

[WildCard]

Thanks alot you guys, and um, where do I stick this script piece? In the main?

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Almost anywhere. In a new script above main, at the top, whereever. You only have to specifications:

- Not below Main
- Not been any methods (def ... end)

 

[WildCard]

I put it above main, but my text is still skinny, it didnt do anything for the text within the status, equip, skill, item menus.

 

[SephirothSpawn]

Well poo. Let me do some test tomorrow if no one beats me to it.

 

[Zeriab]

This works for me

Font.default_bold = true

*hugs*
- Zeriab