Cartur's Combat Text

World of Warcraft style combat text for Valheim, timed against retail WoW footage frame by frame. Numbers on trees, ore, buildings, crafting and pickups are untouched - this only changes what you see over a creature you just hit.

• Ordinary hits fling off to one side in a short arc and are gone in about half a second, like retail WoW.
• Crits pop: they snap to a big peak and are back to size within about 0.14s, then sit on the creature for about a second and a half. A crit is a backstab, a stagger, an elemental weakness hit, or a hit at least twice your recent average against that kind of enemy.
• Enemy hit numbers are 2x vanilla size, crits 3x.
• Colours are the game's own.
• Numbers are drawn in Federo, the closest free match to WoW's damage font. Set General / Font to empty for the game's font, or to any loaded font name or a .ttf/.otf in the mod's fonts folder.
• Readable from further away - raised from vanilla's own text-visibility distance so a bow shot from range still shows a number.

Healing and block text are exactly what vanilla already drew.

Install

Use a mod manager (r2modman / Thunderstore / Gale) and it pulls in BepInEx for you. Manually: drop the CarturCombatText folder (the DLL and its fonts folder) into BepInEx/plugins.

Client-side. The server doesn't need it and neither do the people you play with. Federo is under the SIL Open Font License (fonts/OFL.txt).

Free, and always will be. If it improved your game you can tip me on Patreon.

Discord — bug reports, install help, and mod requests. Bug reports get their own thread so nothing is lost in a chat scroll, and requests are voted on.

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Changelog

1.2.3

• New icon in the Cartur's Mods style. The mod itself is unchanged from 1.2.2 (BepInEx still reports 1.2.2).

1.2.2

• In-game screenshots in the README. No code changes.

1.2.1

• New icon, and the README is rewritten: a fuller description of what the mod does, every setting and default checked against the code, and image captions that match the pictures. No code changes.

1.2.0

• Retail WoW motion, measured frame by frame from 60fps WoW footage. Ordinary hits fling off to one side in a short arc and fade in about half a second. Crits stay on the creature for about 1.5s.
• Crit pop now shrinks straight back to size by ~0.14s, with no undershoot.
• No more recolouring: crits keep the game's colours and are no longer bold.
• New default font, Federo (SIL Open Font License), the closest free match to WoW's damage font. An existing config keeps whatever Font it already has; set it to Federo-Regular.ttf to switch.
• A font loaded from a file now keeps the game's outline and vanilla's digit height.

1.1.1

• An error while drawing a damage number can no longer cancel the hit's damage.
• The list of recent hits no longer grows without limit where the text is never shown (hidden HUD, dedicated server).
• Stagger hits count as critical.
• Less garbage per frame, and a guard against the last entry being shown with the wrong label.

1.1.0

• Choose your own font. General / Font takes either the name of a font the game already has (the list is written to the BepInEx log when you enter a world, e.g. Valheim-Norse) or the file name of a .ttf/.otf you put in a fonts folder next to this mod's DLL. Empty keeps the game's.

1.0.0

First release.

• Enemy hit numbers scaled up (2x normal, 3x crit) with a fast crit pop - everything else the game draws is left alone.
• Crit on a backstab, a weak-elemental hit, or a hit at least 2x your recent average against that kind of enemy.
• Red for elemental weakness, yellow for every other crit.
• Numbers follow the creature instead of hanging where the blow landed.
• Visibility distance raised so a ranged hit still shows a number.