Addon to increase UI Text?

[canabeessss]

Hi

I have kind of bad eyesight and am trying to find an addon that literally does what the tittle says, just a general increase of the game's text (item/spell descriptions, quest text, etc)

Already tried lowering res and using the built in UI slider but it doesnt quite help me out.

TIA

[aelwi]

I have kind of bad eyesight and am trying to find an addon that literally does what the tittle says, just a general increase of the game's text (item/spell descriptions, quest text, etc)

There are a few AddOn's that change fonts and fontsizes.

See 'tekticles' for reference:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tekticles/files

They don't increase size by that much though.
If you're looking for a bigger increase in size you'd have to change every font Blizzard uses (about 100).

I'd try something like this:

hooksecurefunc(getmetatable(PlayerName).__index,'SetText',function(s)
   s:SetFont('Fonts\\FRIZQT__.ttf,15,'OUTLINE')
end)

for _,v in pairs({GameTooltip,ShoppingTooltip1,ShoppingTooltip2})do 
   v:SetScale(1.5)
end

First lines checks all (well, atleast most) fontstrings, sets fontsize to 15 with an outline - this should help with readability.
Second part increases Tooltip sizes by 1.5.

You might want to play around with the numbers til you're comfortable.
There will be some overlapping if you're using higher numbers so be careful.

Reference:

Spoiler: Show

Character stats are already overlapping at size 15.

Copy & Paste the code above and create your own little script via https://addon.bool.no/
Make sure to enable outdated addons, won't load otherwise.

Macro version (no AddOn needed; needs to be pressed everytime on login though):

/run hooksecurefunc(getmetatable(PlayerName).__index,'SetText',function(s)s:SetFont("Fonts\\FRIZQT__.ttf",15,"OUTLINE")end)for _,v in pairs({GameTooltip,ShoppingTooltip1,ShoppingTooltip2})do v:SetScale(1.5)end;PlayerName:SetText(UnitName'player')

This should theoretically check for any fontstring or text, so if you're using additional AddOn's their GUI might be affected aswell.

[Lonelywolf]

There are a few AddOn's that change fonts and fontsizes.

See 'tekticles' for reference:
https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/tekticles/files

They don't increase size by that much though.
If you're looking for a bigger increase in size you'd have to change every font Blizzard uses (about 100).

I'd try something like this:

hooksecurefunc(getmetatable(PlayerName).__index,'SetText',function(s)
   s:SetFont('Fonts\FRIZQT__.ttf,15,'OUTLINE')
end)

for _,v in pairs({GameTooltip,ShoppingTooltip1,ShoppingTooltip2})do 
   v:SetScale(1.5)
end

First lines checks all (well, atleast most) fontstrings, sets fontsize to 15 with an outline - this should help with readability.
Second part increases Tooltip sizes by 1.5.

You might want to play around with the numbers til you're comfortable.
There will be some overlapping if you're using higher numbers so be careful.

Reference:

Spoiler: Show

Character stats are already overlapping at size 15.

Copy & Paste the code above and create your own little script via https://addon.bool.no/
Make sure to enable outdated addons, won't load otherwise.

Macro version (no AddOn needed; needs to be pressed everytime on login though):

/run hooksecurefunc(getmetatable(PlayerName).__index,'SetText',function(s)s:SetFont("Fonts\FRIZQT__.ttf",15,"OUTLINE")end)for _,v in pairs({GameTooltip,ShoppingTooltip1,ShoppingTooltip2})do v:SetScale(1.5)end;PlayerName:SetText(UnitName'player')

This should theoretically check for any fontstring or text, so if you're using additional AddOn's their GUI might be affected aswell.

Hey, is it possible to elaborate on this one ? I mean, which blizzard file to modify ? Sorry I am newbie to this.

[Shred92]

Hey, is it possible to elaborate on this one ? I mean, which blizzard file to modify ? Sorry I am newbie to this.

Take the first block of quoted code, put it in https://addon.bool.no/ and download the addon, then install it normally enabling the "outdated addons" option.

[Lonelywolf]

Take the first block of quoted code, put it in https://addon.bool.no/ and download the addon, then install it normally enabling the "outdated addons" option.

make sense!! thank you

[Lonelywolf]

by the way, the code didnt work. I used the macro version with the website you provided (as an addon) and it did work.


Edit: I noticed that self healing text is quite pixelated, any idea how to fix that ?

Edit: ahh, now I cant see the buff stack number :/. I wish this macro would've changed player names only! but thank you for sharing, I will try to play around with it and see if I can make it.