My ORANGE, it's all ........GONE.

nosscar · Dec 17, 2014

Ok so for a bit of fun i messed with my cockpit colours.
http://imgur.com/h3Ym06Z
http://imgur.com/VsIOT5r

I have no prior knowledge of code, but simply used the excellent tips and instructions from a thread on this forum.
Took me only a few minutes.
Then an idea struck me, why don't the devs have a different colour hud for each type of ship, just to add a bit of variety, if i can do it in a few minutes, they could acheive much better quite easily.
Apparently the testing code is already there, so maybe they thought of this already.
Please just do it dev's, looks like it won't take long.
(maybe not for everyones taste's, so an option to change it would be nice)

TraviTheRabbi · Dec 17, 2014

OOOH, that's a pretty color on that purple. What are the numbers you used for that color?

OVMorat · Dec 17, 2014

I'd certainly appreciate a light/dark switch for the HUD - shooting people against an orange star with an orange gunsight is quite tricky.

nosscar · Dec 17, 2014

TraviTheRabbi said:
OOOH, that's a pretty color on that purple. What are the numbers you used for that color?

I just followed this thread.
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=73419

The white is if you use this config you can have a cool white HUD
0,0,0
1,1,1
0,0,0

and the blue is:
0,0,1
0,1,0
1,0,0

sergeantmarcel · Dec 17, 2014

OVMorat said:
I'd certainly appreciate a light/dark switch for the HUD - shooting people against an orange star with an orange gunsight is quite tricky.

you can already change the brightness of the HUD. Look to your right screen under the tab functions, on the bottom somewhere should be option to brighten it.

Kirisute · Dec 17, 2014

https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76533

this is the new "live" thread for this. also has the awesome web based editor by ARKKU

Straniero · Dec 17, 2014

Nice mix of colours!

Druid · Dec 17, 2014

Well worth playing arround with . Orange always burnt my eyes . I love my cool blue now

Lutz · Dec 17, 2014

Be careful when entering any negative numbers into the HUD RGB matrix... It can leave somethings hard to see or downright invisible.

Snyperal · Dec 17, 2014

That is tidy. I'll have a play with this too.

Bonebreaker · Dec 17, 2014

This Looks so mutch better than this freaking orange, why isnt there a Option so that every normal Player can do this ingame?

Zephyriel · Dec 17, 2014

I love the orange hud, however it doesn't fit the imperial ships at all, from the pictures I've seen, and that white and blue hud you made would fit very nicely with them! I haven't fiddled with the settings yet but if I ever get an imperial ship I will definitely try this.

bitstorm · Dec 17, 2014

Doesn't changing the HUD colours affect the in-game colours? It seemed to do so when I tried it which put me off a bit.

Agree on the HUD colours for different ships, though the ability to change would be required I think too.

Lutz · Dec 17, 2014

bitstorm said:
Doesn't changing the HUD colours affect the in-game colours? It seemed to do so when I tried it which put me off a bit.

Agree on the HUD colours for different ships, though the ability to change would be required I think too.

No, these options purely affect the HUD.

This is mine. Bit TOO blue ATM. Gonna lighten that a bit.

nosscar · Dec 17, 2014

Bonebreaker said:
This Looks so mutch better than this freaking orange, why isnt there a Option so that every normal Player can do this ingame?

yes exactly, there should be, not played with it much yet, so not sure of any side effects.
I have created different folders in the same directory now, call blue or white ect, with a copy of the different colour config files in each. (for easy copy/paste changes)
Also of course the original saved too.

Blake_Dragon · Dec 17, 2014

i'm using this atm :

Eddy Gurge · Dec 17, 2014

I really like the purplish one you did OP. I'm just about to move to an Asp, and I may just change right then, to really emphasize the upgrade more.

agent1138 · Dec 17, 2014

Anyone wanna make a LCARs colour theme?

Kirisute · Dec 17, 2014

nosscar said:
yes exactly, there should be, not played with it much yet, so not sure of any side effects.
I have created different folders in the same directory now, call blue or white ect, with a copy of the different colour config files in each. (for easy copy/paste changes)
Also of course the original saved too.

ok; before we all start moaning in another thread about this:
DEVS have officially stated that the HUD colours were put into the config file because they were happy as to the point where it had gotten but not happy enough for it to be a full function of the game. It was a tweak left in so they can fiddle when they have time or let us find it and fiddle ourselves.
they have also stated it is something they will look at when they have more time.
So
A: be thankful its still here and not patched out.
b: realise its a TWEAK and as such isn't perfect
c: it isn't officially supported so don't harass the devs if things go wrong.

as for side effects: you can lose the various colours of enemy targets etc
and if your crap at editing you can stop your game loading at all! be warned!
ALWAYS back up the file safely..then edit it!

Pulse · Dec 17, 2014

unfortunately changing the hud colours also seems to mess with the galaxy map colours, meaning the factions are all messed up (at least on the settings I tried)

I played with the settings from the main thread but ultimately went back to orange.