Scaling guiCreateFont

[Vague72]

Hi,

I am trying to fit a custom font  to all screen resolutions. For example:

local coolvetica = guiCreateFont("fonts/coolvetica.ttf", 25)

This font would look normal to 1920x1080 but it would look bigger in lower resolution, so I want to lower the size depending on the resolution. So far I tried this:

local sx_, sy_ = guiGetScreenSize()
local coolvetica = guiCreateFont("fonts/coolvetica.ttf", 25*(sy_/1080))

but it still does not look normal in other resolutions. 

Cheers.

[Patrick]

You need to scale the font size in dxDrawText.

guiCreateFont's size is an Integer, so if the scaled value is 20.9, its rounded to 20.

[Vague72]

1 hour ago, Patrick said:

You need to scale the font size in dxDrawText.

guiCreateFont's size is an Integer, so if the scaled value is 20.9, its rounded to 20.

Oh! Thank you, I wouldn't really mind 5-10% wrong scalling.

So, this is supposed to be correct right?;

local sx_, sy_ = guiGetScreenSize()
local coolvetica = guiCreateFont("fonts/coolvetica.ttf", 25*(sy_/1080))

 

[Patrick]

3 minutes ago, Vague72 said:

So, this is supposed to be correct right?

Yes, the math is right.

You need to multiply X-size with SCREEN_X / 1920 and Y-size with SCREEN_Y / 1080

Edited May 3, 2020 by Patrick