They're usually found in the Data/Interface folder and their name is prefixed by fonts_ though this is only a convention : Theoretically, they could be placed anywhere in the Data folder and named anything. If not for their name, unwary user would probably never notice them. Elements and Scripts are optional.įonts libraries Where ? įonts libraries are actually regular. swf is made of some regular metadata, and at least a single frame (which can be empty) in the movie clip.
An interaction logic written in ActionScript, so some elements can be interacted with, and the movie clip controlled accordingly.Ī minimal valid. A movie clip made of frame, each frame made of a combination of the above-mentioned elements. A set of predefined element (text blocks, shapes, images, sounds. This is a free tool that is extremely powerful (actually better than most of its paying counterparts), and even come with a decompiler to convert. If you need to peak directly inside a compiled SWF file ( in this article, I'll do it to briefly explain the content of a font library, and how menus reference them), you can use JPEXS. swf is a compiled format, this isn't supposed to be edited as is, though this is possible because the format is pretty simple and the encoding lightweight. You can see a menu as a very-interactive 2d movie clip, this is technically what they are. Those tools are used to create interactive 2D movie clips. They're used/edited by Adobe Flash CSX (X being a version number), and its successor Adobe Animate CC, which are animations tools. SWF files are originally Flash files, bearing the. This article is about explaining where those libraries works, how they're supplied to the interface's bindings, and thus how to adjust them yourself. Instead, the system is based on libraries :Įach menu / HUD is using a binding to declare its font, and the game engine then supply the actual font to those bindings with fonts from libraries. Unlike most of the SWF-based user interface, fonts aren't directly embedded in their menus. swf files (ShockWave Flash), which define all of the Interface (HUDs and Menus) in Skyrim. A typical example of this in Skyrim is the Wall of the 500 seen in Windhelm.įor everything else, fonts are used through interface elements, a.k.a. The only exception is for textures containing texts, where the text and its font are just an image, painted directly in the world. Yes, reading a book do count as being inside a menu from the technical side of things. That is, font are only displayed either on the HUD, or inside a menu. 
The Interface Introduction įonts are almost only used from the interface part of Skyrim. This article is to provide some insight on how fonts works in Skyrim, and how mods can modify them.
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