Devs, can we get more UI color controls?
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Some in-game UI color modifications would be welcome (yes yes, I know I can tinker with XML but even though that works, it's a sub-optimal method and alters too many parts at once). Particularly welcome for people who have less perfect color vision than the average Joe (me for example, have problems with the radar at times red and orangle blend more or less as one color, with slightly different hue/brightness - not after messing around with the XML though, but anyhow).
it really is too bad all the ship UIs are exactly the same. It's like buying multiple cars from different manufacturers and finding that all the dashboards look exactly alike. Pretty dull IMO and not the way it would go. Elements would be similar of course, but the design would be a bit different between all of them. It would really go a long way to making each ship feel more unique.
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Would be nice to change the colors in game, just add somekind of sliders for it. Easier and faster than tweaking XML files.
I would go one further (and definitely further down the line), different HUD schemes for different ships, and different layouts for sensor classes. There should even be modules, purchase more display/sensors.
Why would Imperial ships have the same layout as Federation ships? Breaks my immersion, man
Why would Imperial ships have the same layout as Federation ships? Breaks my immersion, man
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This. Additionally, it is quite common for the existence of a workaround to diminish the priority of a desired feature.
This is exactly why we do not have in-game HUD color customization yet.
Because of all the requests FD said they wanted to give it to us eventually, but it requires a fundamental redesign of the HUD to do it in a way that fits FD's quality standards.
They gave us the current limited access to HUD customization options so we could at least mess around a little bit.
Gee.. so kind of Frontier.. [rolleyes]
Did they give it to us?
Where is the description or manual on how to find the XML file and adjust it to our preference, and just for Error what about XBox?
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Your persevering negativity is somewhat disturbing... :/
It makes life a lot harder you know.
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It is not an official solution, but those who frequent the forums will be able to get the info.
There's even a webpage by one of our cool community members:
http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/
Once there is an official implementation Xbox will no doubt get access to it too.
But as we all know it is much easier to tinker around with unofficial stuff on PC.
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I find your lack of negativity disturbing.
It not all a story with a happy ending you know?
How you so sure of that anyway? We can barely map any buttons.
That is true. And it might take a long time still before we get this kind of customization.
It is what it is. At least for those that want it FD took the trouble to give us access to a limited work around.
The colour of the HUD is something I will really care about when a lot of other stuff I truly desperately want has been implemented.
So, call me about this in 10 years or so and we can be negative about this in unison.
This is the one hundred and sixty fifth time this is discussed.
Questions were asked during Q&A sessions and live shows.
Answers were given.
etc.
On the X-box?
I don't know anything about x-boxes.
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That is true. And it might take a long time still before we get this kind of customization.
It is what it is. At least for those that want it FD took the trouble to give us access to a limited work around.
The colour of the HUD is something I will really care about when a lot of other stuff I truly desperately want has been implemented.
So, call me about this in 10 years or so and we can be negative about this in unison.
This is the one hundred and sixty fifth time this is discussed.
Questions were asked during Q&A sessions and live shows.
Answers were given.
etc.
On the X-box?
I don't know anything about x-boxes.
Yes.. on the Xboxes..
As this game is primarily a PC product you guys have to wait longer for updates (FD can only do so much at the same time), but FD has stated on several occasions that you will get what we get whenever possible.
Giving you guys HUD color customization should not be difficult once it is implemented in-game.
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You would think that but we don't even have any translations.. only English.. and still no bindings.
I have an eye condition that makes me hypersensitive to a frequency of red light, most noticeable to me from red LEDs taillights on cars and hyperbrite LEDs, ironically the same red is present in the orange of the HUD. I wear special glasses when needed but, ended up modding the HUD XML and have a script written for when FD updates wipe out my changes.
It would be nice to have this made part of the game but, would rather all the other bits are implemented first.
It would be nice to have this made part of the game but, would rather all the other bits are implemented first.
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I read about that.
I also read that the updating process for X-box is somewhat more complicated and can not be done as frequently as on PC.
I guess you will have to be even more patient than the PC players.
As this is a huge project in the midst of development by a dev that does not have the enormous capacity of UBI or EA or Rockstar it will take time.
Patience is of the essence.
There is nothing we can do about that.
The only thing I know for sure is that FD is fully committed to this unique project.
Probably because of having to jump through hoops and loops due Microsoft themselves.
It has nothing to do with Microsoft being s (well for us to get Horizons it kinda is)
We've already had atleast half a dozen updates and the original release so why wasn't it implemented there. The game got updated every 1-2 months in the first 6 months.