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• ChrisIceBox

  August 15

  You'd need a custom script to swap the font used in your Menus. I'd recommend the use of Unity UI, as it's better-equipped to handle changes in content (i.e. font size) at runtime, but the act of changing the font is possible in all Source modes.

  A wiki page to handle UI-based menus can be found here. The script adapted to work with AC menus is as follows:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  
  public class DynamicFontLanguage : MonoBehaviour
  {
  
      [SerializeField] private Font defaultFont;
      [SerializeField] private PerLanguageFont[] perLanguageFonts = new PerLanguageFont[0];
  
      private void OnEnable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnChangeLanguage += OnChangeLanguage;
          EventManager.OnMenuTurnOn += OnMenuTurnOn;
      }
  
      private void OnDisable ()
      {
          EventManager.OnChangeLanguage -= OnChangeLanguage;
          EventManager.OnMenuTurnOn -= OnMenuTurnOn;
      }
  
      private void OnMenuTurnOn (Menu _menu, bool isInstant)
      {
          UpdateAllMenus (Options.GetLanguage ());
      }
  
      private void OnChangeLanguage(int languageIndex)
      {
          UpdateAllMenus(languageIndex);
      }
  
      private void UpdateAllMenus (int languageIndex)
      {
          Font newFont = defaultFont;
          foreach (PerLanguageFont perLanguageFont in perLanguageFonts)
          {
              if (languageIndex == perLanguageFont.languageIndex && perLanguageFont.font)
              {
                  newFont = perLanguageFont.font;
                  break;
              }
          }
  
          if (newFont)
          {
              foreach (var menu in PlayerMenus.GetMenus())
              {
                  foreach (var element in menu.elements)
                  {
                      element.font = newFont;
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  
  
      [System.Serializable]
      private class PerLanguageFont
      {
  
          public int languageIndex;
          public Font font;
  
      }
  
  }
  
• mikdog

  August 15

  Thanks Chris. And is there a separate method to change the font for character dialogue/subtitles when changing language, or does this script cover that too?
• ChrisIceBox

  August 15

  It will change the font for all Menus, when the language is changed.
• mikdog

  August 28

  Thanks Chris. I was getting the error:
  "A script is calling 'PlayerMenus.GetMenus ()' before the Menus have been initialised - if this is a custom script, consider adjusting it's Script Execution Order."

  I tried changing the script execution order to 100 in the Project Settings, but I think that only worked when I had the script on an empty game object in the scene. Since I wanted the script to work in all scenes, I added it to the PersistentEngine, but the error returned.

  I got an LLM to make some changes, to delay the script. It works, I hope it's performant and not super unoptimised:

  using UnityEngine;
  using AC;
  using System.Collections;
  
  public class DynamicFontLanguage : MonoBehaviour
  {
      [SerializeField] private Font defaultFont;
      [SerializeField] private PerLanguageFont[] perLanguageFonts = new PerLanguageFont[0];
  
      private void OnEnable()
      {
          EventManager.OnChangeLanguage += OnChangeLanguage;
          EventManager.OnMenuTurnOn += OnMenuTurnOn;
          // Start a coroutine to update menus after initialization
          StartCoroutine(UpdateMenusAfterInitialization());
      }
  
      private void OnDisable()
      {
          EventManager.OnChangeLanguage -= OnChangeLanguage;
          EventManager.OnMenuTurnOn -= OnMenuTurnOn;
      }
  
      private void OnMenuTurnOn(Menu _menu, bool isInstant)
      {
          StartCoroutine(UpdateMenusAfterInitialization());
      }
  
      private void OnChangeLanguage(int languageIndex)
      {
          StartCoroutine(UpdateMenusAfterInitialization(languageIndex));
      }
  
      private IEnumerator UpdateMenusAfterInitialization(int languageIndex = -1)
      {
          // Wait until the end of the frame to ensure PlayerMenus is initialized
          yield return new WaitForEndOfFrame();
  
          // If no specific language index is provided, use the current language
          if (languageIndex == -1)
          {
              languageIndex = Options.GetLanguage();
          }
  
          UpdateAllMenus(languageIndex);
      }
  
      private void UpdateAllMenus(int languageIndex)
      {
          Font newFont = defaultFont;
          foreach (PerLanguageFont perLanguageFont in perLanguageFonts)
          {
              if (languageIndex == perLanguageFont.languageIndex && perLanguageFont.font)
              {
                  newFont = perLanguageFont.font;
                  break;
              }
          }
  
          if (newFont && PlayerMenus.GetMenus() != null)
          {
              foreach (var menu in PlayerMenus.GetMenus())
              {
                  foreach (var element in menu.elements)
                  {
                      element.font = newFont;
                  }
              }
          }
      }
  
      [System.Serializable]
      private class PerLanguageFont
      {
          public int languageIndex;
          public Font font;
      }
  }
  
• ChrisIceBox

  August 29

  Looks all right. It's running via events, not the Update loop, so it should be fine.