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General Category => Tech Support and Chat => Topic started by: ((Kàkà§hì)) on August 06, 2007, 03:38:15 PM
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I've seen many screenshots taken during gameplay where the in-game chat text is a different color. I'm not sure if this is a Mac thing, but the default (?) white color makes it hard to read in Icefields and Swidewinder. Is is possible to choose another color without modding?
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yea i wanna turn mine red.
i believe that this can be easily done, but i dunno how so im gonna sit,wait and watch. :munch:
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Never seen this question before... Lol ;D
Here, let me find a nice little application for you.....
Modify: Okay, I found it. All credit goes to Xhzjang for making it. I would not advise moving around the text location, because it is in just about the best spot that it can be in right now. Anyway, here's the link:
>>Xhzjangs Halo Font Editor<< (http://w0d.zerotri.net/XhzjangsHaloFontEditor.zip)
Just unzip that file, and run the program.
Just so you know, there is some other really long complicated way of doing it, but, I'm lazy, and like to take the easy way out :yesyes: (!
Any questions, just ask.
:munch:
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Hey, freddd...COOL! Just don't laugh when you see any screenshots of mine. The best color for me is.......pink :-[
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LOL. :LOL: Glad it worked out though!
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I tried that a few weeks ago and didn't understand and had to reinstall halo and halo CE meaning i lost everything.
If someone could post or PM me a how-to-use that would be great please ^^. (You don't HAVE to lol)
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I have an answer!! It's a little complicated, so just bear with me, ok? First open My Computer. From there open Local Disk Drives, or the C: drive. Now open the Program Files folder and open the Microsoft Games folder. Now open up the Halo folder and then open the CONTENTS folder. Now before you go any further, open up halo and check to see what your screen resolution is (For those who don't know how to find this, click settings on the halo main menu and go to video settings, and then look at the two numbers at the top) and then remember the last number. For example, My resolution is 800 x 600, so I would remember 600. Anywho, back to changing the text color. From the CONTENTS folder, open up the LOG with the last number of your resolution. I would open the 600log. now a window should come up telling you windows can't open up the log. Well don't worry, because windows has no clue what it's talking about. Just click the bullet beside "Choose a program to run this in?" (It should look something like that, at least). Now scroll down and choose Notepad to open it in and click OK. Now you're going to see a whole bunch of computer talk. All you need to know is that line that says
textcolor="#ffffffff" (that's 8 f's, which is the code for white text color)
Now regretably, I only know one code, but the color is a perfect blue text that shows up against any background, and is quite easy to read. Just backspace the f's and replace them with this:
textcolor="#0000CC" Make sure you use zeros and capital c's for this.
I'm sure you can find a list on the internet of all the codes. If any of this confuses you (which I wouldn't be surprised if it did) contact me through xfire so we can get together on vent so I can explain. ;D
Sonic
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Thanks so much Sonic!!!
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Or if youwanna take a ride on the wild side go with...
CC0066
CC0066
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:lol: NP Hydra ;D
Sonic
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List of colour numbers follows:
http://www.colourlovers.com/blog/2007/06/30/ultimate-html-color-hex-code-list/
Probably has most of the colours you'll ever need to use in such a situation.
Enjoy!
:cake:
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Any chance this works on Mac?
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Well I've just proven to myself that I can be a big danger to my computer. I too wanted to change my text color so I down loaded and ran the Xhzjangs font editor. I then tried to run Halo only to discover my exe file would not bring up the program. After much fiddle with no success I decided to uninstall and reinstall the game.
Now I can access Halo but when I add -console to my desk top exe I cannot see or transmit any 'in game' text. Grrrrrrrr. So I uninstalled and reinstalled again. This time checking before I inserted -console. Text works fine but again after adding -console to my command prompt I'm back to NOT seeing text again. The rcon screen works fine and i can kick and ban if needed. But can't see or display any in game chat which means my macros are not working.
I almost forgot to say I'm running Vista. I also have Halo CE in which everything is running fine, no text problems.
I hope I've given enough explanation that someone can help an oldman out. :)
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Maybe...I just was able to duplicate your issue on my PC or at least similar.
Make sure when you open the editor that there is a selection for the button "Font Type"...it's a default window that will open if you've ever changed text face, color, size, etc. I hope that does it for you....once I selected like Arial & blue & size 10, mine came back. BUT...I was anxious for a moment!! DOH!
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Invert, the same happened to me and WaTy. I suggest taking the approach SONIC outlined in this thread and DONT use the font editor. It's insanely glitchy.
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Warnings to all who've entered here:
1) I cannot recommend enough AGAINST the use of programs to alter your Halo text! In most cases these programs have caused havoc for their user, and problems that even reinstallation of Halo sometimes doesn't fix.
2) Sonic had it CLOSE, but NO CIGAR! Note that the example textcolor="#ffffffff" - pulled right out of one of the Halo font-setting files - has EIGHT HEX DIGITS, while all his other examples have only SIX DIGITS.
You can have problems if you do NOT HAVE ALL EIGHT HEXIDECIMAL DIGITS.
FYI: Here is the "encoding" of the info in the digits:
iiRRGGBB, where
ii= intensity
RR (00-FF) = RED saturation
GG (00-FF) = GREEN saturation
BB (00-FF) = BLUE saturation
based on the standard RGB additive color model (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RGB_color).
Here's "original" info (from the old forums) about this:
OK, I found the following with a google search on "halo chat font change how do you". I had to use the google cache, so perhaps the original page is gone.
Here ya go, hope it works:
Want to change your halo font color? Then read this tutorial.
Go into your halo folder, mine is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo and look for the folder called content, open it up and you should see lost of un-recognised files called 576editbox,480log... etc.
These are the resolution sizes that your ingame text is stored on so if you want to change the text of 800x600 resolution, you would need to go to 600log and if you want to change the resolution of 1024x768, you would need to go to 768log and so on. Double click on the file and it will say it doesn't know the file extension, just choose open with selected program and choose notepad. Open it and it should bring up a box something like this...
Now you can start doing some tweaking to the text. Lets start with the color, at the moment it's set at ffffffff which is white. You have to use HTML (hex code) code to change the color but heres a link to a color code:
(Edit: I have used the chart on the link and made one out of it below I made it just in case the site ever goes down, and so it's easier to access for dial-up users.)
e.g. replace ffffffff (white) to ffff0000 to make your text full red. (Format: iiRRGGBB, ii= intensity)
To change to text size just change the values, and to change the font, do the same thing. Only certain fonts work but i use 'comic sans ms' and that font is cool and seems to look good at 1024x768 res.
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If you wanted to you can move the text around the screen to where you want it and how many lines you want the text to be. The default is 8 lines and you can't make it any longer but you can make it shorter. I would just experiment with things, that's what i did to find things out and what each item does.
You can change the edit box (the thing where you type your message when you push 'T' to talk to other players) but i wouldn't bother.
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ok since I dont under stand all of that..... I need some1 to talk in English.
This is what my script looks like, now what should I change it to so that I see RED text
<ksml>
<head/>
<body>
<listbox left="5" top="350" width="800" height="160" id="oListbox"
textbackground="#00000000" outerborder="#00000000"
innerborder="#00000000" shadow="#00000000" highlight="#00000000"
textcolor="#ffffffff" font="Arial Narrow-10-bold"
/>
</body>
</ksml>
Im guessing it has something to do with the... textcolor="#ffffffff" ... but I would like some1 to spell it out for me :winkgrin:
-Thanks :P
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Well... FIRST make sure that youve got the correct file!
Check what resolution you've got set in Halo -> Settings -> Video .
If it's 640x480 then edit the file 480log.ksml. (Hint: it's always <Last#ofVideoSetting>editbox.ksml .)
The file that you put up as an example looks like it's 600log.ksml, so that's correct if Halo is set to 600x800....
So to make the change for 600x800 resolution, edit that file (600log.ksml) and replace ffffffff (white) with ffff0000 to make your text full red (which you won't like as soon as you see it.... ;D )
Then you can try ffffff00 instead and see how you like YELLOW instead!
NOTE: I advise that if you know how to, you first make a (backup) copy of any files that you edit so you can compare/check/recover them to their original state if need be....
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Once again thanks a ton Mxy
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another thing that you could do, is add a personal touch and edit the image that the specific size uses, and you can add something like a custom saying or your name(I put Bleach984 0 since that was when I did it) to the background of the text box
Heres an example
(http://resources.shogrenconsulting.com/bleach984/ui.jpg)
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in order to do that I did the following
In the content folder under the Halo directory, I went into the galleries folder. (so like this C:\Programs\MicrosoftGames\Halo\Content\Galleries\ or what ever yours is)
and then I opened up the image that has the same size number as the ksml file that you edited for the text(for me its the editbox1200 one, for you it is what ever yours setting is at
in some image editor(could even be MSPaint) and put my name in the image near the right side so It would interfere with my typing, and the result was what was shown...
BTW the text color that I have mine on, and that works wonderfully and I can see it on any map, is 2266CC... also something that I noticed, is that what I did for changing the color etc is in the (enternumbersizehere)editbox.ksml file not the (enternumbersizehere)log.ksml file, and it works fine for me, simple hex color codes
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Well... FIRST make sure that youve got the correct file!
Check what resolution you've got set in Halo -> Settings -> Video .
If it's 640x480 then edit the file 480log.ksml. (Hint: it's always <Last#ofVideoSetting>editbox.ksml .)
The file that you put up as an example looks like it's 600log.ksml, so that's correct if Halo is set to 600x800....
So to make the change for 600x800 resolution, edit that file (600log.ksml) and replace ffffffff (white) with ffff0000 to make your text full red (which you won't like as soon as you see it.... ;D )
Then you can try ffffff00 instead and see how you like YELLOW instead!
NOTE: I advise that if you know how to, you first make a (backup) copy of any files that you edit so you can compare/check/recover them to their original state if need be....
What code would I use if I wanted GREEN?
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Lots of greens...but Green = 008000 (Please notice this is the 6-character version...)
For a rather exhaustive list of font names, colors, codes, etc... http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp (http://www.w3schools.com/html/html_colornames.asp)