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Title: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §åñdmåñ on January 31, 2011, 01:22:32 PM
Want to change your in-game Halo text? Like mine is in the screenshot below?
(http://img196.imageshack.us/img196/1953/halotext.png) (http://img196.imageshack.us/i/halotext.png/)

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It's quite simple, just follow my steps.
1. Open up your program files/Microsoft games/Halo/Content
Now in your contents folder you should see files labeled such as:
786log/editbox
600log/editbox
So once that is confirmed, you need to double check your screen resolution in Halo, and match up
your resolution with the appropriate folder.
IE: I use 1024x768 so therefor I edit the 768log (still with me?)
2. So once you have matched your resolution with the right file, open up your file (log) with notepad.
you should see text similar to this;
<ksml>
  <head/>
<body>
  <listbox left="5" top="330" width="720" height="150" id="oListbox"
           textbackground="#00000000" outerborder="#00000000"
           innerborder="#00000000" shadow="#00000000" highlight="#00000000"
          textcolor="#ffffffff" font="Arial Narrow-10-bold"   
/>
</body>
</ksml>

3.  So now what you want to do is edit the "textcolor="#ffffffff"
You want to change the ffffffff to any color code you choose.
The best color that works for me is yellow, or the orange that I have in the screenshot above.
Now before you edit ANYTHING, ALWAYS back up your files. Also as you can probably see you
can change your font and size. I use Trebuchet MS-12-bold-italic. Just make sure you only edit what you need to edit.
So that should be it. If anyone is confused or having a hard time getting this to work, feel free to ask
via reply to this thread by PM or find me on vent.
Otherwise, Enjoy!

I provided a picture of color codes for you to try out;
(http://img262.imageshack.us/img262/637/colorpopup.gif) (http://img262.imageshack.us/i/colorpopup.gif/)

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Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: BFM_Thunder on January 31, 2011, 02:06:49 PM
Thank you for posting.

i now have a lovely blue color ;D

code:0000FF
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MrMxyzptlk on January 31, 2011, 03:21:23 PM


Notice that there are EIGHT digits in the original value, and you're replacing them with only SIX?

After some experimentation I was able (long ago!) to figure out that the first two (hex) digits are "opacity" - or how "solid" the color is rendered.

So I'll add to the original post that THE FIRST TWO (of EIGHT) hex digits should ALWAYS BE "FF"!

E.g. That "International Orange look" (from the color table) would be

ffff3300


Just FYI, since - if I recall - sometimes the text disappears completely unless you have the opacity enabled.


*edit*/note: I see that §åñdmåñ edited his post on 2011-01-31 at 12:29:54 to correct it for this.  TY Sandy!

Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §åñdmåñ on January 31, 2011, 04:01:05 PM


Notice that there are EIGHT digits in the original value, and you're replacing them with only SIX?

After some experimentation I was able (long ago!) to figure out that the first two (hex) digits are "opacity" - or how "solid" the color is rendered.

So I'll add to the original post that THE FIRST TWO (of EIGHT) hex digits should ALWAYS BE "FF"!

E.g. That "International Orange look" (from the color table) would be

ffff3300

Just FYI, since - if I recall - sometimes the text disappears completely unless you have the opacity enabled.

ooooo Nice, thanks for sharing that. Ill have to experiment with that too.

Thunder: no problem :D
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on January 31, 2011, 05:50:50 PM
I got through all the steps and then it wouldn't let me save it...  :'(




Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §åñdmåñ on January 31, 2011, 05:54:59 PM
I got through all the steps and then it wouldn't let me save it...  :'(


You might have changed something you weren't supposed to. Are you trying to save the file as
a different name?
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on January 31, 2011, 09:26:17 PM
I tried both saving it as a different name and the same name. if I do it as a different name, it says im not allowed to save it in that location without contacting the admin, which should be me, and has me save it in my documents instead..And then if i try to save it as the same name it says access denied with no options. hmm... It's probably something simply but I'm not a computer person. I just play Halo!  :winkgrin:



Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: BFM_saes on January 31, 2011, 09:34:50 PM
If you're using Windows 7 or vista, it'll probably be UAC. Save the file elsewhere (such as to your desktop) and then move it into the appropriate directory.
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on February 01, 2011, 10:40:24 AM
Thanks Saes! That seems to work but now it's saving it as a txt Document when I move it into CONTENT and it needs to be a ksml file. How do I change that?

*EDIT*

Well I was able to get the file type to be ksml but it still isn't working when I look at the in-game color..



Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §åñdmåñ on February 01, 2011, 11:59:29 AM
Thanks Saes! That seems to work but now it's saving it as a txt Document when I move it into CONTENT and it needs to be a ksml file. How do I change that?

*EDIT*

Well I was able to get the file type to be ksml but it still isn't working when I look at the in-game color..


Are you editing the log? or the editbox?
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on February 01, 2011, 12:38:00 PM
log

What do you mean by Back up files?  :P


Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §åñdmåñ on February 01, 2011, 02:22:27 PM
hmm ok.

Back up your files by saving the original text in a different folder so you can go back to it if you
make an error while editing the file.
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on February 01, 2011, 03:04:31 PM
Yeah that's what I thought it was. Just making sure it wasn't a step I missed. I guess I'll just play around with it and hopefully come across a solution.  :)




Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: Orbit on February 01, 2011, 03:35:15 PM
ty very handy!!
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on February 01, 2011, 03:37:53 PM
I GOT IT FINALLY! I didn't do anything different but for some reason it worked this time! Thanks Dude!  :)

Noez I haz pretty txt colorz Tanxs3! (Me and Tanxs was just talking bout this!  :ssh: ) :siderofl: :siderofl: :siderofl:



Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MufnMan on February 01, 2011, 03:38:48 PM
Now I'm wanting to center it at the bottom. wish me luck!  :LOL:


Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: §U}Travis on April 06, 2011, 10:55:48 PM
could i add a shadow to contrast it against backgrounds such as teleporters (if it was bright green) or something like that
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: HLN Rockhpc on April 06, 2011, 11:44:04 PM
I just changed my font style to Segoe UI, and I removed the bold.  The white works great for me, but I just didn't find the pixely Arial to be very attractive.

font="Segoe UI-13"

Props, Sandman.
Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: MrMxyzptlk on April 07, 2011, 07:22:08 AM
could i add a shadow to contrast it against backgrounds such as teleporters (if it was bright green) or something like that


Not that I know of....

Title: Re: How to change your in-game Halo text color!
Post by: -shiNe! on June 03, 2011, 08:12:16 PM
Thanks for this thread Sandman!
I now have a pretty orange color with GungsuhChe font

Originally I moved the text up to the upper left hand corner
But then after playing
I realized my eyes were too used to It's usual position
 :winkgrin:

I hope you don't mind
But with a few edits of my own
I put this up on the §U forums
In credit of BFM though

Piece~Crae