Oh where oh where has my hud gone off to?

Tiparium

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I'll keep this quick. Up until the 1.4 update, I've always used the same custom hud colors. However, with this update, I haven't been able to find the correct graphics file to modify to get that lovely blue-yellow color scheme I had set up back again. The default colors are especially frustrating since I have rather severe colorblindness, and had set my hud up specifically so that I could actually see friendlies vs enemies. If anyone knows how to modify the hud colors in 1.4, please tell me. :)

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I should point out I have the Steam version of the game.
 
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Para Handy

Para Handy
I found it where it was supposed to be - Users/xxxxxxxx/AppData/Local/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Graphics

file GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml
 

Falcon_D

Falcon_D
Tiparium said:
I'll keep this quick. Up until the 1.4 update, I've always used the same custom hud colors. However, with this update, I haven't been able to find the correct graphics file to modify to get that lovely blue-yellow color scheme I had set up back again. The default colors are especially frustrating since I have rather severe colorblindness, and had set my hud up specifically so that I could actually see friendlies vs enemies. If anyone knows how to modify the hud colors in 1.4, please tell me. :)
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Hello,
I just modified the HUD colours last night. The config file is at the same place its always been ...\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002\GraphicsConfiguration.xml (if I'm not mistaken, at the office so can't check.)

Have fun, fly safe.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Falcon_D said:
Hello,
I just modified the HUD colours last night. The config file is at the same place its always been ...\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002\GraphicsConfiguration.xml (if I'm not mistaken, at the office so can't check.)

Have fun, fly safe.
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Yes but isn't the place where the override file resides that which I gave above. I have been mucking about with that file all yesterday and the changes worked and persisted.
 

Tiparium

T
Falcon_D said:
Hello,
I just modified the HUD colours last night. The config file is at the same place its always been ...\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002\GraphicsConfiguration.xml (if I'm not mistaken, at the office so can't check.)

Have fun, fly safe.
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Yeah I found that file (though I have a slightly different version of the game from you by the look of your file structure.) But editing it doesn't seem to have any effect on my actual game.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Icebergdx said:
Where are those files for those of us who are Steam downloads, because i am not finding that string....
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Have you turned on "show hidden files and folders"? I think that user appdata folders are hidden by default.

I know nothing about the steam installation method. However since there have been no other replies can I suggest you search for the file GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml

However I don't know that this is always created so maybe you have to do a search for folders called Elite Dangerous (that's a space not an underline) and if they have a sub folder called Options which also has a sub-folder called Graphics then no doubt that is where your user options are stored and if there is no GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml file you can make one in there using notepad text editor.

A better explanation can be found on the HUD editor user-created web tool at:

http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/

Hope this can help.
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Tiparium said:
Yeah I found that file (though I have a slightly different version of the game from you by the look of your file structure.) But editing it doesn't seem to have any effect on my actual game.
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Probably you should be editing the user options file GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml which (as the name suggests) overrides the other file. See my post at #2 for location.
 

Windscreen Smudge

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If you have more than one Hard Drive, ED will always save these settings on the hard drive that your OS is on, even if the game is stored elsewhere.

There is also a graphicsconfig file in the ED folder which will override the appdata file. Typical location of .....\Frontier\EDLaunch\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1002
 

fennster

fennster
This where it is for me on Steam C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1010\GraphicsConfiguration.xml

Within that file is the GUIColour default values, I have just tried and tested this and it works fine.
 

Verz

Verz
Icebergdx said:
Where are those files for those of us who are Steam downloads, because i am not finding that string....
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Local Disk (The one with your OS)/Program Files (x86)/Steam/SteamApps ??? Is anything to do with Frontier in there?

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fennster said:
This where it is for me on Steam C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\FORC-FDEV-D-1010\GraphicsConfiguration.xml

Within that file is the GUIColour default values, I have just tried and tested this and it works fine.
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You beat me to it. Ha!!
 

SMcA

SMcA
MalcYorks said:
Probably you should be editing the user options file GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml which (as the name suggests) overrides the other file. See my post at #2 for location.
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Yes it used to be GraphicsConfiguration.xml but it seems that GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml does, as you say, overrides the other settings.

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml
 

fennster

fennster
SMcA said:
Yes it used to be GraphicsConfiguration.xml but it seems that GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml does, as you say, overrides the other settings.

C:\Users\%username%\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics\GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml
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No it is not, he is asking about the steam version, I don't know if it is different to other versions, but this is in steam and it's still the GraphicsConfiguration.xml, I have literally just changed this... You can see that stupid Repair All 10 Cr is highlighted from 1.4

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fennster said:
No it is not, he is asking about the steam version, I don't know if it is different to other versions, but this is in steam and it's still the GraphicsConfiguration.xml, I have literally just changed this... You can see that stupid Repair All 10 Cr is highlighted from 1.4
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That probably means that the steam version doesn't have the override file - if that doesn't exist then of course it can't override the default settings which reside in the file you have exited.

Some of the other file locations seem to change from time to time, my log files for example live under the Program Files (x86) tree, not the user appdata tree that it did before.
 

fennster

fennster
MalcYorks said:
That probably means that the steam version doesn't have the override file - if that doesn't exist then of course it can't override the default settings which reside in the file you have exited.

Some of the other file locations seem to change from time to time, my log files for example live under the Program Files (x86) tree, not the user appdata tree that it did before.
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Our Graphics configuration override file in Appdata is empty apart from the header.
 
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Sapient6

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fennster said:
Our Graphics configuration override file in Appdata is empty apart from the header.
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Yes, the override file can be missing entirely or just mostly empty. It doesn't come with contents. The purpose of the override file is a place to put customizations that you don't want to lose when the product is updated.
 

Tiparium

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Sapient6 said:
Yes, the override file can be missing entirely or just mostly empty. It doesn't come with contents. The purpose of the override file is a place to put customizations that you don't want to lose when the product is updated.
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I didn't have the override file, so I created one and added in the custom hud. However this still doesn't seem to be working. :p
 

Para Handy

Para Handy
Tiparium said:
I didn't have the override file, so I created one and added in the custom hud. However this still doesn't seem to be working. :p
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In case this might help, here is a copy of my GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml file - if you copy and paste it into a new notepad document then save it as GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml that should work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<GUIColour>
<Default>
<LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
</Default>
</GUIColour>
<GraphicsConfig>



<P.S. That is the default colour scheme >

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I think that maybe those lines should be tabbed in - the copy + paste on the board didn't take them.

There is an example on the HUD colour change website:

http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/
 
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Tiparium

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MalcYorks said:
In case this might help, here is a copy of my GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml file - if you copy and paste it into a new notepad document then save it as GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml that should work:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<GUIColour>
<Default>
<LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
</Default>
</GUIColour>
<GraphicsConfig>



<P.S. That is the default colour scheme >

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I think that maybe those lines should be tabbed in - the copy + paste on the board didn't take them.

There is an example on the HUD colour change website:

http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/
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Yep, nothings seems to work, and I have no idea what's going on. I've added in custom huds in the past, but it seems the game has gotten sick of me. The file is in the right place, with the right contents. I even checked multiple times to make sure it was spelled​ correctly. (It was.)


*silently rages*
 
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