Issue with Editing HUD Colors

_Fissure

_Fissure
I know there are a number of threads on editing HUD Colors, but I haven't been able to find a solution to my problem thus far.

I'm finally getting around to changing my HUD colors for the first time, but I've run into an issue. After watching a youtube tutorial or two, I go to the appropriate location on my computer



I then grab my prefered HUD color scheme out of my own (small) library (that I found in this awesome thread: https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showt...-HUD-Colour-Color-Configs-(please-add-yours!) ), copy it, and paste it into the appropriate location in the GraphicsConfiguration file in Notepad.





With that done, my new HUD should look something like this:


Instead, I logged into the game and found this:


Any help would be appreciated. If it makes a difference, I do own ED through Steam. I have two hard drives in my computer: and SSD for running the OS and such, and an HDD for all my games. Not sure if this is what's causing the issue, but who knows.

Thanks in advance for any and all help.
 

Snooch leBooch

Snooch leBooch
Check your appdata folder under your username "username/AppData/Local/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Graphics" if the usual way doesn't work, not sure what the cause is but i had to go that way too to change colors
 
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_Fissure

_Fissure
Snooch leBooch said:
Check your appdata folder under your username "username/AppData/Local/Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Graphics" if the usual way doesn't work, not sure what the cause is but i had to go that way too to change colors
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I'm not sure that will work, because if I recall correctly my "user" profile is saved on my SSD, while ED is on my HDD. I'll have to take a look at it when I get home.

Of course the simple solution would be for FD to allow us to edit our HUD colors in-game :D
 

KillSimon

K
You said you own it on Steam so I assume you're also running it through Steam.

Go to steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-64 and edit the graphicsconfiguration file in there instead.
 

Snooch leBooch

Snooch leBooch
_Fissure said:
I'm not sure that will work, because if I recall correctly my "user" profile is saved on my SSD, while ED is on my HDD. I'll have to take a look at it when I get home.

Of course the simple solution would be for FD to allow us to edit our HUD colors in-game :D
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Did you find it? Not 100% sure if i understood you correctly but lot's of games fall back on data in your app folder even if on a different disk, Elite might cause an issue with different installer types (very much fishing in the dark here) and your mileage regarding the hud colors may vary, but i'm still quite sure i had to change them in my user folder - for my game at least.
 

_Fissure

_Fissure
Snooch leBooch said:
Did you find it? Not 100% sure if i understood you correctly but lot's of games fall back on data in your app folder even if on a different disk, Elite might cause an issue with different installer types (very much fishing in the dark here) and your mileage regarding the hud colors may vary, but i'm still quite sure i had to change them in my user folder - for my game at least.
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I can't find any way to make it work man. Not really sure what the issue is. Everything I read says to edit the GraphicsConfiguration file, but that doesnt seem to be doing it.
 

ROSS-128

ROSS-128
_Fissure said:
I cant find a graphics override file. All sources Ive read indicate the GraphicsConfiguration file, even the HUD editor website.
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It should be in C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics by default.

Keep in mind that AppData is a hidden folder. You'll need to enable "view hidden folders" in order to see it. To do that, click "View" on the toolbar. On Windows 8/10 this should bring up a set of options at the top of the window, check the box that says "hidden folders". In Windows 7 or earlier, it'll open a pop-up menu. Look through the menu and look for a box that says "hidden folders", "show hidden", or something like that, and check it.
 

_Fissure

_Fissure
ROSS-128 said:
It should be in C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics by default.

Keep in mind that AppData is a hidden folder. You'll need to enable "view hidden folders" in order to see it. To do that, click "View" on the toolbar. On Windows 8/10 this should bring up a set of options at the top of the window, check the box that says "hidden folders". In Windows 7 or earlier, it'll open a pop-up menu. Look through the menu and look for a box that says "hidden folders", "show hidden", or something like that, and check it.
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Ok, that got me to the GraphicsConfigurationOverride file. Thank you so much. Now, do I simply paste my new HUD color preferences into there? It doesnt look the same as the GraphicsConfiguration file. All it says inside of the Override file is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig />
 

Jypson

Jypson
ROSS-128 said:
It should be in C:\Users\[Your Username]\AppData\Local\Frontier Developments\Elite Dangerous\Options\Graphics by default.

Keep in mind that AppData is a hidden folder. You'll need to enable "view hidden folders" in order to see it. To do that, click "View" on the toolbar. On Windows 8/10 this should bring up a set of options at the top of the window, check the box that says "hidden folders". In Windows 7 or earlier, it'll open a pop-up menu. Look through the menu and look for a box that says "hidden folders", "show hidden", or something like that, and check it.
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Indeed, look for a file called GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml

You may not have it, if you don't, just open notepad and paste in the following:

Code: 
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?><GraphicsConfig>
    <GUIColour>
        <Default>
            <LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
            <MatrixRed> 0, 0.15, 1 </MatrixRed>
            <MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0.87 </MatrixGreen>
            <MatrixBlue> 1, 0.46, 0.24 </MatrixBlue>
        </Default>
    </GUIColour>
</GraphicsConfig>

Replace the numbers with whatever you want and save it as an .xml and you should be good to go.
 

ROSS-128

ROSS-128
_Fissure said:
Ok, that got me to the GraphicsConfigurationOverride file. Thank you so much. Now, do I simply paste my new HUD color preferences into there? It doesnt look the same as the GraphicsConfiguration file. All it says inside of the Override file is this:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig />
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You'll have to add in some stuff around it. Here's mine as an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<GUIColour>
<Default>
<LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
<MatrixRed> 0.01, 0.28, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 1, 1, 1 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
</Default>
</GUIColour>
</GraphicsConfig>
 

_Fissure

_Fissure
ROSS-128 said:
You'll have to add in some stuff around it. Here's mine as an example:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<GUIColour>
<Default>
<LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
<MatrixRed> 0.01, 0.28, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 1, 1, 1 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
</Default>
</GUIColour>
</GraphicsConfig>
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It worked!!! Thanks a lot for the step-by-step help. Much appreciated.
 

ROSS-128

ROSS-128
WreckWren said:
Is there a solution to having blue/red and getting black squares instead of avatars?
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Not really, the avatars get run through the same color matrix as your HUD. So if you try to go for really pure shades of primary colors, the avatars will either get turned monochrome, have missing chunks, or get nuked from orbit.

For just making them visible though, making sure you have something in the "red" row helps. Because most human skin tones have a lot of red in them, whatever you put in that row will tend to be the dominant color.
 
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