0004488: [3.2] With margin font being something other than smallfont, medals need to be placed lower on scoreboard

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(0024413) Kaminsky (developer) 2025-04-11 03:48	I created a new topic that fixes this overlap issue:'https://foss.heptapod.net/zandronum/zandronum-stable/-/tree/topic/default/scoreboard-cutoff-fixes [^]' Let me know if this works for you.

(0024416) unknownna (updater) 2025-04-11 04:28	Although the new fix moves the medal icons 1 pixel or so down with the ConFont and BigFont now, it still feels a bit too close to the text compared to the SmallFont aesthetically. What do you think?

(0024418) Kaminsky (developer) 2025-04-11 04:44	The reason why the top of the medals might feel too close to the bottom of the text with ConFont is because the height of all its characters is 8 pixels, whereas with SmallFont, many of its characters are 7 pixels tall, but the height of the font is 9 pixels, leaving that extra gap. I don't think this is necessarily an issue though. As long as there's no overlap, it should be okay.

(0024422) unknownna (updater) 2025-04-11 06:04	I thought so indeed. Maybe it would look a bit better if the medals could go down 1 extra pixel in general. It's the tall medals like accuracy, precision and total domination etc. that look a bit too close with the ConFont. Then you would have 2 pixels of empty space beneath the font, right?

(0024446) Kaminsky (developer) 2025-04-14 14:56	FYI, I made some adjustments to the strings in the scoreboard's margins:'https://foss.heptapod.net/zandronum/zandronum-stable/-/commit/9c49466f1b88e96ab6918c2a6c55edd4e293b0f1 [^]' This should make the ConFont look more appealing when it's used in the margins, while Doom's SmallFont will mostly look the same.

(0024447) unknownna (updater) 2025-04-14 15:54	Yeah, I actually tested it last night. Looking at it, I think the medals could even be moved down further 1 pixel or so perhaps. I'd maybe also move the numbers of earned medals below the icons 1 pixel or so downwards as well, since they almost hit the icons for some medals like the BFG spam medal, especially when using the default SmallFont. Though the real problem seems to be that the medal icon is much taller than the others. But that can wait for now, since I'm sure you've about wrapped up development now. Thank you very much for the changes so far, at least the icons don't nearly overlap with the text now. You agree?

(0024449) Kaminsky (developer) 2025-04-17 05:18	I made even more adjustments to the scoreboard (particularly with the fonts and padding) in this topic:'https://foss.heptapod.net/zandronum/zandronum-stable/-/commits/topic/default/more-font-and-height-adjustments [^]' I think this will cover as much as I can do to make the scoreboard more appealing to look at. I also took into consideration spacing out the elements a bit more so that everything isn't too close to each other.

(0024453) unknownna (updater) 2025-04-17 08:50	Quote from Kaminsky I think this will cover as much as I can do to make the scoreboard more appealing to look at. It looks very good and consistent now between the fonts. I didn't even expect you to change this. I think I found one minor bug with the new changes however: If the user for some reason decides to use the BigFont as a margin font, the team/map limit string is scaled way down. See the attached screenshot. And one more final thing before marking this as resolved, does a gap of 3 pixels between the font, numbers and medal icons look better to you than 4? Is this what the "GapBetweenHeaderAndRows" decides? Just curious.

(0024457) Kaminsky (developer) 2025-04-17 15:03 edited on: 2025-04-17 15:34	Quote from unknownna I think I found one minor bug with the new changes however: If the user for some reason decides to use the BigFont as a margin font, the team/map limit string is scaled way down. See the attached screenshot. I pushed a new commit into the same topic to fix this discrepancy. Would you be willing to give it a test to confirm if it fixes the problem for you too? Quote from unknownna And one more final thing before marking this as resolved, does a gap of 3 pixels between the font, numbers and medal icons look better to you than 4? Is this what the "GapBetweenHeaderAndRows" decides? Just curious. I spaced everything apart by three pixels, instead of four, for the sake consistency (the padding underneath text using SmallFont was three), and because I believe that three pixels is a good balance between spacing everything so that they're not too close, nor too far away, from each other. Especially with the height of the screen being limited, I don't want the scoreboard to become too tall to fit entirely on the screen by adding too much spacing. Do you think this way because the extra padding around the edges of the scoreboard is four pixels wide? Also, the "GapBetweenHeaderAndRows" property determines how much space to leave between the borders and the players rows (and team headers). I changed this from two to three for consistency. EDIT: I also fixed the text that tells if whether the player has earned any medals or not in the scoreboard's footer not being wrapped when it's too wide to fit on a single line.

(0024458) unknownna (updater) 2025-04-17 20:19	Quote from Kaminsky I pushed a new commit into the same topic to fix this discrepancy. Would you be willing to give it a test to confirm if it fixes the problem for you too? That seems to have taken care of it. Thanks. Quote from Kaminsky [...] Especially with the height of the screen being limited, I don't want the scoreboard to become too tall to fit entirely on the screen by adding too much spacing. Do you think this way because the extra padding around the edges of the scoreboard is four pixels wide? Oh, I was just wondering if increasing the space between the medals by 1 would make it look better or not, to separate the icons a bit more from the text above and below. Hopefully the attached screenshot makes it a bit clearer. However, I get the impression you already tried this and it didn't look as good? Just curious.

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Issue History
Date Modified	Username	Field	Change
2025-04-09 17:14	unknownna	New Issue
2025-04-09 17:14	unknownna	File Added: Screenshot_Doom_20250409_190434.png
2025-04-11 03:48	Kaminsky	Note Added: 0024413
2025-04-11 03:48	Kaminsky	Assigned To	=> Kaminsky
2025-04-11 03:48	Kaminsky	Status	new => assigned
2025-04-11 03:48	Kaminsky	Product Version	=> 3.2
2025-04-11 04:28	unknownna	Note Added: 0024416
2025-04-11 04:44	Kaminsky	Note Added: 0024418
2025-04-11 06:04	unknownna	Note Added: 0024422
2025-04-14 14:56	Kaminsky	Note Added: 0024446
2025-04-14 14:56	Kaminsky	Status	assigned => needs testing
2025-04-14 15:54	unknownna	Note Added: 0024447
2025-04-17 05:18	Kaminsky	Note Added: 0024449
2025-04-17 08:50	unknownna	Note Added: 0024453
2025-04-17 08:51	unknownna	File Added: Screenshot_Doom_20250417_102021.png
2025-04-17 15:03	Kaminsky	Note Added: 0024457
2025-04-17 15:34	Kaminsky	Note Edited: 0024457	View Revisions
2025-04-17 20:19	unknownna	Note Added: 0024458
2025-04-17 20:20	unknownna	File Added: Screenshot_Doom_20250417_213844.png

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