Hi
@Cmdr IVDEX
Just bringing your
post over here as it's likely to be relevant to other EDHM users as well
For Horizons I was using EDHM (with EDHM-UI) and I had a nice HUD-Setup. Not too colorfull (in the end it's a spaceship and not 'Miami Vice'), but a nice greyish-blueish with some accents.
Now that I can play on Horizins 4.0 (and due to the fact that I will definitl buy Odoyyey after I updated my machine - i5 3570K / 8 GB RAM / GTX 970) I am a bit stuck.
It's extremey nice that the HUD in Odyssey is extremely customizable via EDHM-UI but (at least at the moment for me) a bit overwhelming.
Is there any possibility to convert an existing Horizons-Theme into a Odyssey-Theme?
If yes I could just ake some small adjustments instead of investing a lot of time into making a complete new HUD.
Unfortunately the mod and ini files from H3.8 are incompatible with the H4.0 / Ody codebase
I modded Odyssey using techniques I didn't know about while doing Horizons, so there isn't an easy way to convert 3.8 themes to 4.0
However, you can at least use the same XML colour matrix from your 3.8 mod in 4.0
In the 3.8 mod, open the game folder "elite-dangerous-64" in Windows Explorer, then open the folder 'EDHM-ini"
Inside EDHM-ini you'll see a file called "XML-Profile.ini", which you can open in a text editor like Notepad or Notepad++
At the bottom of that file you'll see a block of code that looks something like this:
Code:
; ******************************************
; ******************************************
; --== XML Ship Profile ==--
; ******************************************
; ******************************************
; *** <MatrixRed> TOP Row ***
; ------------------------------------------
; Top Left
x150 = 0.04
; ------------------------------------------
; Top Centre
y150 = -0.12
; ------------------------------------------
; Top Right
z150 = 1
; ==========================================
; *** <MatrixGreen> MIDDLE Row ***
; ------------------------------------------
; Middle Left
x151 = 0
; ------------------------------------------
; Middle Centre
y151 = 1
; ------------------------------------------
; Middle Right
z151 = 1.3
; ==========================================
; *** <MatrixBlue> BOTTOM Row ***
; ------------------------------------------
; Bottom Left
x152 = 0.5
; ------------------------------------------
; Bottom Centre
y152 = 0.05
; ------------------------------------------
; Bottom Right
z152 = -0.02
; ==========================================
This is just the EDHM way of writing the standard colour matrix
Code:
<MatrixRed> x150, y150, z150 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> x151, y151, z151 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> x152, y152, z152 </MatrixBlue>
There's two ways to copy these values over to the equivalent file in your 4.0 EDHM-ini folder
i. Literally copy and paste the code block (only the 'XML Ship Profile' code block first mentioned above) from your 3.8 "XML-Profile.ini" file into the 4.0 "XML-Profile.ini" file .. it uses the same key:value pairs (x150, y150, etc)
ii. Alternatively, you can open the XML colour matrix editor in the UI (with the 4.0/Ody mode selected), and type in the values from your 3.8 colour matrix
At least you'll have similar looking panels - but note they won't be exactly the same, as the H4.0 / Ody graphics engine interprets the XML matrix slightly differently to the H3.8 version
As for the rest of the HUD, I recommend taking a screenshot in 3.8, then edit the 4.0 HUD in EDHM UI, and try to match the colours. Making a complete profile from scratch can take a few hours but it's worth it in the end
If you get stuck with anything feel free to ask any questions
o7
