Make hud, menu and fleeticons bigger?

the simplest way to increase the hud and icon size is (this bit you will NOT like, but it DOES work) to LOWER the resolution of the game, eg 1368x768, (but as sins needs a res of at least 768 lines do NOT go below this.

btw I am playing on 22 inch 1920x1080 screens at 1 yard from the screen myself, so can understand your issues.

harpo

I play mainly at 1920x1080 on my 17inch (laptop). I turn off the mesh ownership icons and that helps, otherwise it makes it hard to tell what is what because I have bad eyes lol.

I would turn down the resolution, but my monitor is broken and i have no money to buy me another at this time; if the resolution is changing my screen begins to flicker; this has nothing to do with the refresh rate of the monitor, there is simple a transistor broken and i have no warrant on this anymore, so i must find a way to play all my games in 1920X1080 till i have enough money to buy me another one.

For the Fonts i found a solution but it's a beta and not working properly: Xiskios Font Mod, main menu and mod menu is broken.

I hope someone has any other ideas, i keep searching.

Thank you guys.

Edit: I forgot to mention that i have the Trinity version of this game.....

I have a lot of experience with the U.I. and this will be probably be way to much work for what you want.

Increasing font size is not all that hard but realize that when you change one section, others will change with it.

Copy the font folder from the reference files or the Trinity install dir.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Stardock Games\Sins of a Solar Empire - Trinity\Font 

There are 2 types of font files
 .ttf is the actual fonts file
 .font is the size and type used (.ttf)

Example .font

TXT
Font
    Height 16
    TypeFaceName "SinsAgencyBold"

Try bumping the height up to 18 or 22

Know that all the buttons are meant to have the original height, increasing will cause the text to no longer fit the graphics.

The fleet icons is a whole new ballgame. You will need to expand or blow up the icons and and change all the brush locations. Brush is the text (in the Windows folder) the tells the engine what texture sheet (Textures\RaceLogos.tga) to look at, where on the sheet and how big.

\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\NPC.playerThemes
\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\PlayerPhase.playerThemes
\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\PlayerPsi.playerThemes
\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\PlayerTech.playerThemes
\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\Special.playerThemes
\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34\Reference Diplomacy\Window\SpecialNPC.playerThemes

TXT
themeCount 2
Icon
textureName "RaceLogos.tga"
startTopLeft [1,911]
width 32
height 32
rowItemCount 14
horizontalStride 40
verticalStride 40
IconOverlay
textureName "RaceLogos.tga"
startTopLeft [1440 , 851]
width 14
height 14
rowItemCount 14
horizontalStride 20
verticalStride 20
Picture
textureName "RaceLogos.tga"
startTopLeft [1,330]
width 105
height 105
rowItemCount 14
horizontalStride 110
verticalStride 110
PlanetIcon
textureName "RaceLogos.tga"
startTopLeft [731 , 911]
width 23
height 23
rowItemCount 14
horizontalStride 40
verticalStride 40

Take a look at all the files involved and start a mod folder with all these files and let me know if you want to continue.

take a look at soase.x90x.net/?i=modding/UI-Buttons.html

@myfist0

I looked into it and you are right, too much work; anyways i buyed SoE only for testing to see if i buy Rebellion, i think it's totaly worth it.

Thank you for the help.