LuaStyle.font_size

[LotA]

As you can't use a data.lua file within a scenario and because font size is defined within the font itself, there is no possibilities for a scenario to define/use a font size that is not in base game. Available fonts in base game have their size range from 12 to 18.
This is a very limited choice and it would be really nice if the font size was just a property of the GuiStyle so that you can use whatever text size you'd like

Currently I'm willing to create a "you win/you loose" popup with a huge font, 18 is definitely not huge enough and I've just spend hours just to find out i can't do anything about that (from a scenario).

Allowing data.lua in scenarios would be great, but that's another subject

[Klonan]

You can do something like this:

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____  ____   ___   _____  _____   ____      ____  _____  ____  _____  
|_  _||_  _|.'   `.|_   _||_   _| |_  _|    |_  _||_   _||_   \|_   _| 
  \ \  / / /  .-.  \ | |    | |     \ \  /\  / /    | |    |   \ | |   
   \ \/ /  | |   | | | '    ' |      \ \/  \/ /     | |    | |\ \| |   
   _|  |_  \  `-'  /  \ \__/ /        \  /\  /     _| |_  _| |_\   |_  
  |______|  `.___.'    `.__.'          \/  \/     |_____||_____|\____| 

[aubergine18]

You could always draw something on the map, or create a fireworks entity or something like that?

[LotA]

You can do something like this:

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____  ____   ___   _____  _____   ____      ____  _____  ____  _____  
|_  _||_  _|.'   `.|_   _||_   _| |_  _|    |_  _||_   _||_   \|_   _| 
  \ \  / / /  .-.  \ | |    | |     \ \  /\  / /    | |    |   \ | |   
   \ \/ /  | |   | | | '    ' |      \ \/  \/ /     | |    | |\ \| |   
   _|  |_  \  `-'  /  \ \__/ /        \  /\  /     _| |_  _| |_\   |_  
  |______|  `.___.'    `.__.'          \/  \/     |_____||_____|\____| 

ASCII art, actually a well suiting workaround in my case... Damn I completely missed it
Nevertheless ascii art would not work in many cases, i still think more font customization would be welcome (maybe just add a bunch of fonts with size from 8 to 30).

You could always draw something on the map, or create a fireworks entity or something like that?

I've thought of that but not what i'm looking for

tl,dr

The map is a basic arena with rounds system, the popup stays only a few seconds at the end of each.
It would be much bothering to script all the teleport and animation thing plus i don't especially like "tile writing"

[aubergine18]

Ascii text font generator: http://patorjk.com/software/taag/#p=tes ... t=Factorio

[LotA]

I'm not having the expected results :'(

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[aubergine18]

The font in game is proportionally spaced IIRC. So it won't work for fixed-width ASCII art...? Although you can add custom fonts, they only work in GUI elements but not flying-text. So you're out of luck with flying-text unless you want to spend ages working out the positions of each character...

[Articulating]

This also means that in a scenario, you can decrease the size of buttons but the font will be too large so it's pointless.

[aubergine18]

If flying text could accept fonts and sizes, it would open up all kinds of possibilities, particularly in info overlays (currently graphical sprites and simple entities have to be used for that sort of stuff which is far more effort than it's worth).

[aubergine18]

Someone just released this mod: https://mods.factorio.com/mods/Earendel/textplates