[Good Damage Font] Combat Text - Outline

[Quarrion]

Hello to everyone.

I was wondering if someone can help me add Outline to the Good Damage Font Addon lua code.
I want to make it look like the combat text from the old WoW Alpha/Beta, but I don't know how to add the outline to the combat text. I hope you guys can help me.

Here's the code:

gdFont = CreateFrame("Frame", "gdFont"); local GD_FONT_NUMBER = "Interface\\AddOns\\gdFont\\Fonts\\SKURRI.ttf"; function gdFont:ApplySystemFonts() DAMAGE_TEXT_FONT = GD_FONT_NUMBER; end gdFont:SetScript("OnEvent", function() if (event == "ADDON_LOADED") then gdFont:ApplySystemFonts() end end); gdFont:RegisterEvent("ADDON_LOADED"); gdFont:ApplySystemFonts()

[Phanx]

Not possible. The font strings used by the built-in combat text aren't accessible to addons, so it's not possible to change their size, outline, shadow, or other properties. It's only possible to change the font because Blizzard makes the game check for that "DAMAGE_TEXT_FONT" variable and use the font file it specifies instead of the default one.

Also, that addon is ridiculously overcomplicated for what it does. You can replace the entire addon with just this one single line:

DAMAGE_TEXT_FONT = "Interface\\AddOns\\gdFont\\Fonts\\SKURRI.ttf"

...and it will work exactly the same.

[Miiru]

The only way to add an outline to the damage font would be modifying the font file itself and adding an outline to each font glyph.

I tried this but sadly it does not work really well and looks pretty ugly at low font sizes (e.g. no crits).

[Quarrion]

Thanks to both of you for the responds Atleast now I know that it is Blizzard side and not addon