Menu color help

Antares

Could you running FLHacks Dual Multiplayer be the difference, as I am not seeing many variables that could be different and affect this.

Edit: Players in Group Arrows are blue and their names are invisible in the bottom left box unless highlighted.

adoxa

Using the Fl Colors script, I changed the group color to orange and here’s the excerpt from rich_fonts.ini.

font = 8, Arial Unicode MS, 23

[Style]
name = STYLE_GROUP
font = 0
bold = false
italic = false
underline = false
color = 255, 128, 0

[Style]
name = STYLE_CONSOLE

```Again testing with Dual multiplayer, the attached screenshot shows the result. As for whether the other player needs the colors, too, I'm not sure. The message comes from the server (server.dll I mean), so that suggests it's the server that controls the colors.

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The message comes from the server (server.dll I mean), so that suggests it’s the server that controls the colors.

This explains everything as I did not modify the colours on my test server, only on the client side. I’ll test it again then.

adoxa

Actually, I was wrong. The style comes from the server (it is server.dll that processes the chat message), but the color is set by the client (it is freelancer.exe that reads rich_fonts.ini).

rik_starkiller

Adoxa,

Can I ask how you were able to change the colours of the brackets and the label for group too please?

Thanks,
Rik

adoxa

Didn’t I already say how? :? Use Freelancer Colors to change the group color (the brackets) and edit DATA\FONTS\rich_fonts.ini, adding STYLE_GROUP to change the group chat color.

Bobthemanofsteel

Something up with your website adoxa?
I can’t access FL Colours, can’t connect apparently.

adoxa

Sigh, looks like it’s down again. You should be able to see for yourself - I’m on Box 16.

rik_starkiller

Apologies Adoxa, must have had a brain cloud when I was posting this the other day. Fantastic script, thanks!!!

wasabitoy

I am having a problem on changing the color of every blue interface even if I follow the guide of cheeseontoast’s (HUD Editing Guide)…

After following the guide, I ran the game, and after the Freelancer screen, it exits the Freelancer screen window and a window will pop up saying that the “freelancer.exe has stopped working” and I need to close the program.

I did what cheeseontoast said on the guide but I failed to run it…

Can someone please help me on this…

Thanks…

Davenat0r

There is a new question here: How I may change it the hud_energygauge, hud_hullgauge, hud_shieldgauge colors?

Maverick

Hunor wrote:
There is a new question here: How I may change it the hud_energygauge, hud_hullgauge, hud_shieldgauge colors?

Those files can be found in Freelancer/DATA/INTERFACE/HUD, and are 3db type images. You can change them by extracting the texture from them and changing them in your graphical program.
How exactly, I can’t tell you right now. I need to dive into that again myself. But I’m sure someone else can tell you about that.

I am having a problem on changing the color of every blue interface even if I follow the guide of cheeseontoast’s (HUD Editing Guide)…

After following the guide, I ran the game, and after the Freelancer screen, it exits the Freelancer screen window and a window will pop up saying that the “freelancer.exe has stopped working” and I need to close the program.

I did what cheeseontoast said on the guide but I failed to run it…

Can someone please help me on this…

Thanks…

No doubt that something somewhere has gone wrong after all, or it wouldn’t crash. Based on the info you are giving, it’s hard to tell what exactly. If you really don’t have a clue what the cause is, the best thing to do is to put your backup files back, and then add one edited file after another, loading the game after each time. Do this until the game starts crashing again, and you will know which file causes it. Then it’s a matter of retracing your steps and finding out where exactly you went wrong.

Davenat0r

I did this already, but nothing changed.

adoxa

The gauge colors are actually hardcoded into Freelancer.exe. The aforementioned script lets you change them, as does FL Hack (which also lets you change order).

Maverick

adoxa wrote:
Using the Fl Colors script, I changed the group color to orange…

This Fl Colors tool seems extremely useful. However I can’t find any explanation as to how it works anywhere though. I have two files unzipped, Fl Colors.lng and Fl Colors.mps (which can be read by Wordpad) but they produce a code (probably the aforementioned scripts) of which I don’t know how to use it, or which program to relate to it.

So, how to use Fl Colors?

adoxa

Install Tiny Hexer, copy/extract FlColors to the scripts directory, start Tiny Hexer, open Freelancer.exe, Tools>Scripts>Freelancer Colors.

Maverick

Yes I tried that, unfortunately the Tiny Hexer website asks for a username and password. Ideas?

cvekiboy

take it -.-

Davenat0r

and this works at the frame what there is around the text and icons?

Maverick

@Adoxa: Thanks for the explanation. Saves me a lot of time.

@Sumanuti: Thanks m8, appreciate it. Sorry I didn’t search for it myself and taking the easy way here. Haven’t had much time on my hands lately and it has slipped through.

@Hunor: I love your HUD man, nice work.