Question

[DampSquib]

First Hi, watched the vid's they looked good but made me think of a question.

So here it is...can the colours of the dialogue boxes or any of the screen colours be changed within the game....text ,backgrounds etc....

At the moment they are blue with white writing...i find that hard to read.
I know a demo will give me a better idea later...so no probs there...this just happened to be the only concern i had.

Thank you!!

[Anraz]

The game can be moded with ease. You may just change/recolor parts of GUI or replace them within few minutes. The same goes with text. If you are not a modder type we will help.

[DampSquib]

Thank you for the reply....ummmm modding me????
Never tried before...don't mind giving it a go.
Anyhoo i'm sold!!!

[DampSquib]

Please can you help with this.
I would like the text to be Black or another colour.
Don't know what would look best..so i would like to try a few different colours.
So what do i need to change.

[Romdanzer]

Hi DampSquib,

I think what you need to do is go into the "data" folder of the game and there you will find the "GUI..." excel files which define the look of your GUI. With the corresponding resolution.

For example if you have a 1280x960 resolution you go into the file "GUI_1280x960" and there you will find at the very bottom of the list in this excel-file the definition of the colors of the GUI fonts.

I hope that helps as a starter

Romdanzer

[DampSquib]

Thank you for the reply Romdanzer [:)].

I shall try it....i did have a play with the GUI in paint.net.
But i just made things look worse.

[Magpius]

Try using GIMP, (free program), and remember you need to maintain the transparency background of the .png file, or things will get really ugly.
Feel free to ask any questions in the mod threads here, everyone is more than willing to give you further support.
-welcome aboard.

[Magpius]

Editing the GUI.png is a little tricky, but worth persevering.

[DampSquib]

Thank you Agent S for you're reply [:)]

I shall give the Gimp a try as well.
Mmmmm... i'm no modder ,so this could go ugly like last time.
What you guy's do in the mods section is fantastic...most of it is over my head i'm ashamed to say.
But thank's once again.

[Bleck]

Did you manage to change fonts color?

[DampSquib]

No.

The only thing i did in Paint was change the colour of the dialogue boxes.
I made the whole lot of them Darker....Just by changing the Hue or Saturation levels.

At first i thought changing the dialogue boxes would help me.
After seeing the Black one's in TOW...that looks cool.

But it would be better if i could change the white text to Black.

Thank's for the Reply Bleck.

[Bleck]

Open your resolution GUI file as Romdanzer wrote, scroll down to font definition at the end of file, there should be 7 lines similar to this one:

1 Arial 13 90 230 230 230 255 255 0 GUI Small

Format of this line is:
#FontID Name Height Weight ColorR ColorG ColorB SpecialR SpecialG SpecialB Comment

If you want black font, then you need to change ColorR, ColorG and ColorB to 0. So this particular line should be:
1 Arial 13 90 0 0 0 255 255 0 GUI Small

SpecialR, SpecialG and SpecialB are used for instance when text is highlighted. Now (255 255 0) it is yellow, values for other colors you can check in any graphic program or online color picker.

[Magpius]

another word of advice, open the .csv file in notepad.exe, rather than excel; as some people have issues with format and saving.
notepad avoids the added grief.

[DampSquib]

Haha...Result !!!!

Thank you all ,now i can go back to playing the game.
As soon as i have had fun playing with the GUI & Text in Paint & the Gimp etc.

[DampSquib]

Been playing for a bit now..great game by the way.
But it is slow on my comp...it is very old!!!
Anyway is it possible to get a quick start for the game...that would help.
As i'm killing the start menu in task manager on start up.
It would be nice anyway as most of my Matrix games have one.
I did try sticking the FPS on 30..doesn't seem to do anything.
Makes no difference if it's on 30 or 60.....Oh & it doesn't stay on what i put it.
And how about a Slider for Zoom In & Out speed.
Hope you don't think i'm being rude.

1 other thing,i changed the Border Colour but did notice that most appear to be the same.
Maybe it's me maybe not...

EG: All these are Black & White...FloralWhite,AliceBlue,AntiqueWhite,Azure,Beige,Bisque,
BlanchedAlmond,CornSilk,WhiteSmoke,Gainsboro,GhostWhite,HoneyDew,Ivory,Lavender,LavenderBlush,
LemonChiffon,LightCyan,LightGoldenRodYellow,LightYellow,Linen,
MintCream,Misty,OldLace,PapayaWhip,SeaShell,Snow,White.

And these are repeats EG:DarkGrey..DarkGray..same colour different spellings.
Same with...DarkSlateGrey..DarkSlateGray....DimGrey..DimGray...Grey..Gray.
LightGrey... LightGray...LightSlateGrey....LightSlateGray.

[Razz1]

Not only is your computer old but so is your graphics card.

Colors are fine.....

Hope you can upgrade soon.

On start up just hit the escape key two or three times then the game skips the intro.

[DampSquib]

Thanks for the reply Razz.
Glad it's my crud comp...wish i could upgrade.
Hope it won't be too long before i do.

[Bleck]

Can you tell me how many RAM memory you have there, and how many SoP is using when playing scenario?

And believe me, FPS limit = 30 is better if you are having problem with speed, even if you don't notice it so much. And this value is saved (I know that in menu is not selected current value, we will fix it in next patch).

[DampSquib]

RAM i have 4GB.
Map Iwo Jima..used 305,896k

My comps only a old AMD 4000+

[DampSquib]

I have stuck the game back on 30FPS.
My CPU is maxed out at 100%.

So why if the rest of the game displays fine do i see the colours the way i posted??

I brought the game based on the System Requirements on the home page.
I am over them....but way under the recommended in the manual.
But they are not on the home page.
If i may ask will TOW be any better...or am i going to struggle with that.
As again i see no recommended requirements.