[mod request] bigger icon sizes

[marbuljon]

Hi, I've been thinking about it since I very first started playing the game. The icon sizes are really small for those of us who don't see as well as normal people. I mean like your inventory, and pictures in the craft menu, not the normal in-game graphics. Because the text is also small (or rather, squished and hard to read) it actually doesn't help as much that there's a text description when you hover over the item's picture.

 

Even if just the height were changed and the width of each icon stayed the same, it would probably still help. So is it possible? Can anyone make a mod like this? I'm thinking that the icons being twice the size as they are now would be a lot better.

 

[seronis]

Lower your screen resolution if you want things larger.  Dont run 1900x1400 resolution unless your eyes are sharp

[pikafan8]

Can't you up the HUD size in the options menu, too?

[marbuljon]

Lower your screen resolution if you want things larger.  Dont run 1900x1400 resolution unless your eyes are sharp

Unfortunately, apparently on Macs one can no longer go lower than 1024 x 640, so my screen resolution can't go any lower.

 

Can't you up the HUD size in the options menu, too?

The in-game resolution is set to 640 x 480. Actually it doesn't want to let me change it to anything else, but I assume there's nothing lower. Besides, the problem is really just the icon sizes, all the other in-game stuff is more or less okay (text is a bit difficult but actual playing graphics aside from icons are fine).

[marbuljon]

Err, what maybe I should have said is, I don't have normal vision, I have worse than normal, so I know that maybe this problem doesn't affect everyone playing but I'm sure other people like me are playing the game too who would really appreciate it, and it's just that no one has said anything before. Maybe even normal people sometimes think bigger icons would be better...

 

(Also I was right, the in-game resolution can't go any lower.)

[Tarkolis]

What pikafan8 meant: There is an option called "HUD size". You can turn it up to 10, making your HUD bigger.

 

[pikafan8]

Err, what maybe I should have said is, I don't have normal vision, I have worse than normal, so I know that maybe this problem doesn't affect everyone playing but I'm sure other people like me are playing the game too who would really appreciate it, and it's just that no one has said anything before. Maybe even normal people sometimes think bigger icons would be better...

 

(Also I was right, the in-game resolution can't go any lower.)

I have worse vision than normal, yet I am not affected by this. Get some glasses/contacts if you don't have them already.

Also, yes - I meant what Tarkolis said. I did not mean resolution, I meant the HUD size option in the options menu.

[marbuljon]

Hey, yeah, sorry I realized later I misunderstood what HUD was. I changed it to the biggest size possible but frankly can hardly tell a difference from what it was on before (which was 5 or something), so it's still not big enough...

 

"Get some glasses/contacts if you don't have them already."

Um, of COURSE I already have them and have to wear them for everything I do. I don't mean to be rude (I've heard tons of times in my life "just get better glasses!") but that's not a very wise thing to assume about someone who says their vision is bad. In US terms, how a normal person sees at 20 feet away from something, I see the same object as if it's about 70 feet away while wearing glasses (without glasses it's more like 200 ft lol!). This means that, for example, I can't legally drive a car even with glasses and size 12 font is difficult to read. No, I cannot possibly get any better glasses than what I have now (glasses technology is not good enough, and mine are new too) and no, I cannot get eye surgery because eye surgery isn't good enough either (it could help a little bit but not make my eyesight near normal). Yet there are plenty of people with vision like mine or worse who use the computer, though normally you only hear about the worse ones.

 

I don't know how well normal people see, maybe my request of an icon mod is ridiculous to all of you because I just don't understand... Sorry.

 

I just thought it would help not only people with bad eyesight at the same level as me, but people with better eyesight who just don't like to wear glasses, old ladies, people who are used to simply peering at the screen, dyslexic people who have trouble reading the item names, etc. But if the icons seem huge to everyone else then I guess I'm wrong and it'd only help people like me...

[Mobbstar]

Hey, yeah, sorry I realized later I misunderstood what HUD was. I changed it to the biggest size possible but frankly can hardly tell a difference from what it was on before (which was 5 or something), so it's still not big enough...

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For normal-ish-sighted people, turning the HUD up to 10 is enough. Since that does not apply to you, you could try to increase the HUD size even more, using a mod for example. The only problem is, that that will take up more and more of the screen and thus could affect gameplay.

 

I am an amateur modder, I will look into making such a mod later tonight. Maybe it'll work out, I'll let you know.

[marbuljon]

For normal-ish-sighted people, turning the HUD up to 10 is enough. Since that does not apply to you, you could try to increase the HUD size even more, using a mod for example. The only problem is, that that will take up more and more of the screen and thus could affect gameplay.

 

I am an amateur modder, I will look into making such a mod later tonight. Maybe it'll work out, I'll let you know.

 

Haha, sorry for talking too much. Thank you for thinking about it ;_;;

[Mobbstar]

Haha, sorry for talking too much. Thank you for thinking about it ;_;;

 

Oh please don't feel offended, I just didn't want to repeat so much text. That'd make the page much longer, and reading this topic much more annoying.

 

I'll edit this post as soon as I get some work on the mod done. Please stand by... *smooth jazz starts playing*

EDIT: I found a way to increase the scale of certain elements, such as the inventory bar, independent of the HUD size option. I'm implementing a configuration menu to allow better control over the scale increase. I may be able to stretch the icons vertically as well.

 

EDIT2: I uploaded the mod! LINK

 

Try it out, and if you find any annoyances, or other icons you want to be bigger than the game allows by itself, tell me so.

 

As a fair warning, the text width should not increase a lot, as the text gets too wide to display properly. You can increase the inventory bar size if your screen is very wide, the vertical stretch is fine to increase this or that way.

[marbuljon]

It works great!!!

 

The only problem is the sanity and rain icons get covered up by the backpack, but I can just close the backpack temporarily to look at them. (I'm also using some clock mods so that could be part of it).

 

Actually, I wonder if someone has made a mod where all the clocks and sanity/heath/etc are just in a row at the very top of the screen?