Red Font

[Raindog101]

Is there a way customize the event box? The red font is extremly hard to read. Thx

[rickier65]

I second that - seems like I often have to scroll around trying to find an angle that give a background I can read against. Unfortunately, I imagine it isn't easy finding a font color that works well against any kind of background.

Rick

[EagleMountainDK]

Yes and as a red/green colorblind (mild) I can want the red font to be something else than red. Mayby let us control it?

[Erik Rutins]

Thanks for the feedback, we'll see what we can do. Would a more opaque background in the text box (which would unfortunately conceal a bit more of the map) be helpful?

[Capitaine]

I thought the background of the event box was opaque?  I think mine is gray.  Is it supposed to be like that? [&:]

[Erik Rutins]

It's translucent, so that you can see the map behind it. It's not totally transparent, but it's not opaque.

[Capitaine]

Okay, I just checked it out.  Actually, I now see that it's a slightly transparent gray and, frankly, that is perfect as it does exactly what's intended: It provides a good background for the text to show up AND it lets you see through it without feeling it blocks out the map.  I don't have colorblindness so this works really well for me (I didn't even know it was transparent, but didn't feel the map was blocked either).
 
If you do change something, make it an option so I can keep it as is. [;)]

[EagleMountainDK]

Mayby an slider in the options where one could select different values of translucent, from a full background to  nearly none...?

[rickier65]

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

It's translucent, so that you can see the map behind it. It's not totally transparent, but it's not opaque.

Hm..I'll have to look at that again, I thought it was transparent.

I wonder if theres a setting somewhere that affects that (in video setting i mean no tin game).

Rick

[Capitaine]

Here's a screen shot of what my event box looks like in-game:



The red font is much clearer, actually, but you can see the gray background to the event box which too seems more opaque in the game. Picture didn't reproduce exactly the clarity I have.

[rickier65]

uh oh, my bad. I can read the event box reasonably well(not great but ok), looks like Captiains post. I'm sorry, I was actually talking about the LOS captions. or the tagetting msg. Those are the ones I have a real hard time reading. Sorry for cofusion (although it sound like some folks have a hard time with the event box text as well.


Thanks for posting the screen shot Capitaine.

Rick

ORIGINAL: Rick

ORIGINAL: Erik Rutins

It's translucent, so that you can see the map behind it. It's not totally transparent, but it's not opaque.

Hm..I'll have to look at that again, I thought it was transparent.

I wonder if theres a setting somewhere that affects that (in video setting i mean no tin game).

Rick

[Raindog101]

In the above screenshot the red font in the event box is (to me) indecipherable. It just looks like red smears. The dark red font in the same box is 100% clear and easy to read. I'd just like the option to change font colors.

[Raindog101]

Well I had to stop playing. The smeary red font was causing severe eye-strain. The language could be Chinese and I couldn't tell the difference.
 
It's pity because this is one of Matrix's' best releases. Hopefully it will be fixed at some point in the future.

[Mraah]

I suspect different resolutions causes that problem (blurry red) since the event box looks fine on my 1920x1200 rez.

Perhaps adjusting the event box size might do the trick for the average resolution?

Sceen shot shows actual size of event box ... 1920x1200.

EDIT NOTE : My native screen is 1920x1200 LCD ... my game setting is 1920x1200. (noted after Eriks comment in next post)

Rob

[Erik Rutins]

That's a good question - Old Eagle, were you running at the same resolution as your monitor's ideal size? It just doesn't look "smeared" like that here. What were your graphics settings on launch?

I did put your request on our wish list, I'll see what we can do.

[Capitaine]

Since that's my screenshot above Mraah's, I will say that in-game it looks like the one Mraah posted, not smeary.  It's very sharp.  Not sure what happened between the game, the screenshot and changing it to a jpg.  I used it mainly to show the gray background of the event box.

[PDiFolco]

The red blurring is certainly due to the jpg compression, I noticed that repeatedly on jpg screenshots.
Yet the red font isn't easy to read with high res as the 1900*1200 screenshot shows.
Maybe an alternate color will fit better ?

[rickier65]

I know this thread started about the message box, but the red is much harder for me to read in the LOS-Targeting dialog - thats the one that really gives me trouble. The screen shot below shows both. The msg box text is easier when damage occurs because its brighter than this.

For the LOS msg. I usually try to tilt or twist my viewso it gets agasint a diff. background - but lately I've just been guessing at what it says.

I tried different resoltuion and it didn't seem to improve Maybe a little but then the font was smaller and my system really started bogging down at higher resolutions. I play at the lower end 1024x768.

Rick

[Raindog101]

Now I have bigger problems. After I stopped playing PCK I installed 3 more games, "Making History, HoI2_DD, and Steel Panthers_GE"
 
Now when I try to run PCK I get the same error as HEad does:
 


(I "borrowed his graphic)
 
Same exact thing only my numbers are (3748) and (3216)
 
Sigh.
 
Uninstalled, reinstalled .....
 
Same error.

[Erik Rutins]

Please post this in a new thread with your response. Have you tried uninstalling the other games and then reinstalling Kharkov yet?