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i want to have option for changing ingame font colour to green/dark green, like in cars
in cars, when you are driving during night, speedometer and other indicatiors are never painted white because it will blind you
same in minetest: HUD looks very bright and repulsive when playing during in-game night (especially when combined with IRL night)

Which text? The only text on the HUD is the hotbar for the itemstack sizes.

use the number attribute in a HUD def to change the color.

http://rubenwardy.com/minetest_modding_ ... .html#text

kaadmy wrote:Which text?

chat, for example

+1 I think that in later builds there should be an option to change chat font colour, hard to see it if you are on a snow biome.

Dragonop wrote:+1 I think that in later builds there should be an option to change chat font colour, hard to see it if you are on a snow biome.

Shadowed text may help to see it better.

Krock wrote:Shadowed text may help to see it better.

I made a pull request for a shadowed crosshair, but it was rejected because it was "too 3D". I'd guess implementing shadowed text would give similar complains.

EDIT: wait.. there are already dim shadows in current font :S

Ferk wrote:[...]EDIT: wait.. there are already dim shadows in current font :S

I checked, there's a setting in the minetest.conf for the text shadow, but it seems to only apply in formspecs and in the main menu, but not in the in-game HUD.

kaadmy wrote:

Ferk wrote:[...]EDIT: wait.. there are already dim shadows in current font :S

I checked, there's a setting in the minetest.conf for the text shadow, but it seems to only apply in formspecs and in the main menu, but not in the in-game HUD.

It applies to all Freetype fonts, which includes the HUD and player names.

Calinou wrote:

kaadmy wrote:

Ferk wrote:[...]EDIT: wait.. there are already dim shadows in current font :S

I checked, there's a setting in the minetest.conf for the text shadow, but it seems to only apply in formspecs and in the main menu, but not in the in-game HUD.

It applies to all Freetype fonts, which includes the HUD and player names.

Ah, you're right, it does show up in the HUD text, just very light. Adding the setting

makes it much more visible, but looks uglier.

it is visible ok, just very bright