HUD Menu Questions

Leatherpoker · Post by **Leatherpoker** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 4:42 pm

Hi everyone,

I'm trying to do some modding of the trade and nav menus in the HUD and have a few questions...

1) Is it possible to disable the 2x scaling of menus at high resolutions through modding?

2) I'd like to change the menu buttons also, but I cannot change the button text color. Can this be modded?

3) What is the default text font used for the menus? Anyone know?

Thanks!
LP

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:20 pm

Hello Leatherpoker, which game? Welcome to the forum and the Sim. See you out there sometime.

Leatherpoker · Post by **Leatherpoker** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 6:31 pm

Thanks for the welcoming!

I am modding Evochron Legends.

LP

fci525 · Post by **fci525** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 8:21 pm

You can change the buttons by downloading the customization kit here: http://www.starwraith.com/evochronlegendscustomkit.zip

Inside, you will find folders that you can put into the "EvochronLegends" folder wherever you installed it to override the base resources used. Most things like sounds and some graphics you'll have to generate yourself, but the buttons are made up of a set of .bmp files included in the "hud" folder in that zip file.

There are four button colors:

yellow - equipment in the inventory screen
purple - cargo in the inventory screen
green - weapons in the inventory screen
blue - all the other buttons

Each type of button has a .bmp file for the left, center, and right of the button. The files to alter for these buttons are called b2barXleft.bmp, b2barXcenter.bmp, and b2barXright.bmp, where X is a number from 1 to 4. 1 is blue buttons, 2 is yellow, 3 is green, and 4 is purple.

To change the colors or the way the buttons look, just open those files and edit them however you like, then put the modified files in a folder called "hud" in the EvochronLegends directory and start the game. It should work.

[Edited on 6-7-2010 by fci525]

49rTbird · Post by **49rTbird** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 9:21 pm

Hello fci525, Welcome to the forum and the Sim. See you out there sometime.

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:54 pm

Hi Leatherpoker, welcome to the game and forum. Hope to see you out there some time. And I see others beat me to the answers you are looking for....LOL....

Maarschalk · Post by **Maarschalk** » Mon Jun 07, 2010 11:56 pm

Hi fci525, also welcome to the game and forum. I think I already met you in MP but just in case I did not...LOL...

Leatherpoker · Post by **Leatherpoker** » Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:04 am

Thanks for the responses everyone. I was able to mod the menu buttons, but it sounds like the button text color can't be changed...

I'll keep playing around with things...

LP

warsign · Post by **warsign** » Thu Jun 10, 2010 7:54 am

If you want to show us your mods, feel free to share.
Would be very good imo...