Below is a python script I used to generate a Mod to swap out the fonts with something less caustic. There is much room for improvement in font choice - this is the result of 45 minutes of coding, 5 minutes of testing, and 5 minutes of trying out different fonts. However, those 5 minutes did result in 0 crashes, unlike the other font mods I tried. I think they were probably just bit-rotted.
For the slightly technically minded:
Download python for windows (gogo google), paste the following into a text file, open it in python and run it using the Python GUI to create/update the mod, then enable it in the game as normal. Tweak MOD_FOLDER and BASE_FONT_FOLDER as required for your install. Once you have come up with your awesome font combos package it up as a proper mod and upload it for folks so they don't have to mess around with Python.
BASE_FONT_FOLDER = "C:\\Program Files\\Steam\\steamapps\\common\\sins of a solar empire trinity\\Font"
MOD_FOLDER = "C:\\Users\\Rob\\AppData\\Local\\Ironclad Games\\Sins of a Solar Empire\\Mods-Diplomacy v1.34"
MOD_NAME = "YourFont"
import os
MOD_DIR = os.path.sep.join([MOD_FOLDER,MOD_NAME])
FONT_DIR = os.path.sep.join([MOD_DIR,"Font"])
FONT_SUBS = {}
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-14"] = ("Verdana","14")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-16"] = ("Verdana","16")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-18"] = ("Verdana","18")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-22"] = ("Verdana","22")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-24"] = ("Verdana","24")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-28"] = ("Verdana","28")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-30"] = ("Verdana","30")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-32"] = ("Verdana","32")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-42"] = ("Verdana","42")
FONT_SUBS["SinsAgencyBold-60"] = ("Verdana","60")
FONT_SUBS["SinsArialBold-11"] = ("Verdana","11")
FONT_SUBS["SinsArialBold-12"] = ("Verdana","12")
FONT_SUBS["SinsArialBlack-32"] = ("Verdana","32")
FONT_SUBS["Courier New-11"] = ("Verdana","11")
for fldr in [MOD_DIR,FONT_DIR]:
if not os.path.exists(fldr):
os.mkdir(fldr)
for x in os.listdir(BASE_FONT_FOLDER):
if x.lower().endswith(".font"):
src_filename = os.path.sep.join([BASE_FONT_FOLDER, x])
dest_filename = os.path.sep.join([FONT_DIR, x])
f = open(src_filename, "rb")
g = open(dest_filename, "wb")
b = ""
o = ""
fnt_size = False
fnt_face = False
wrote_info = False
for x in f.read():
b += x
if x == "\n":
height_chk = b.find("Height ")
face_chk = b.find("TypeFaceName ")
if height_chk != -1:
height_idx = height_chk+len("Height ")
fnt_size = int(b[height_idx:].strip())
elif face_chk != -1:
face_idx = face_chk+len("TypeFaceName ")
fnt_face = b[face_idx:].replace('"','').strip()
else:
o += b
b = ""
if not wrote_info and fnt_size and fnt_face:
fnt_idx = "%s-%s" % (fnt_face,fnt_size)
if FONT_SUBS.has_key(fnt_idx):
fnt_face,fnt_size = FONT_SUBS[fnt_idx]
else:
print "No substitution for %s found." % (fnt_idx)
o += "\t\tHeight "+str(fnt_size)+"\r\n"
o += "\t\tTypeFaceName \""+fnt_face+"\"\r\n"
wrote_info = True
if not wrote_info and fnt_size and fnt_face:
fnt_idx = "%s-%s" % (fnt_face,fnt_size)
if FONT_SUBS.has_key(fnt_idx):
fnt_face, fnt_size = FONT_SUBS[fnt_idx]
else:
print "No substitution for %s found." % (fnt_idx)
o += "\t\tHeight "+str(fnt_size)+"\r\n"
o += "\t\tTypeFaceName "+fnt_face+"\r\n"
wrote_info = True
o += b
g.write(o)
f.close()
g.close()
