Need a good, red HUD!

[Virgil Kyle]

Does anyone have the values for a good red or reddish setup that they use in-game? I was hoping to mess with the other colors in the GUI as little as possible, while just making the GUI a little more red, at least, from the stock orange. Can anybody help a brother out?

 

[Briarée]

check over this thread, some user have posted a few one, you might find one that suit your taste:
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=76533&p=1253173#post1253173

if you have time, check this link also, it allows you to mess with the GUI color a lot and refine your own:
http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/

also this reddit post contains a lot of themes:
https://www.reddit.com/r/EliteDangerous/comments/2p3784/you_can_manually_customize_the_gui_colors

they have a red one


code for the above theme:

<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 0 </MatrixBlue>

 

[scorpyon]

I'd actually quite like a blue HUD, myself.
I'd give it a go changing it, but I'm worried that may constitute as messing with the game files? (Bad?)

Though, if it's all ok, this is how my new HUD will look:




Though maybe not quite so pink on the text, heh!

 

[n1L]

No, it's not supported but allowed. in 1.1 they even have a fix so you don't lose your custom settings on Updates.

 

[Briarée]

i do use this one:


but actually considering switching to somthing more like:


video with my curent blue theme (not mine, but the one i use):
[video=youtube;uV6fh6UTnZ8]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uV6fh6UTnZ8[/video]

 

[Arkku]

No, it's not supported but allowed. in 1.1 they even have a fix so you don't lose your custom settings on Updates.

Also in 1.1 they've also changed the custom HUD colours to affect the light behind it on the dashboard (i.e., if you have a blue HUD it creates a blue light behind it on the dash instead of orange), so in that sense it's fairly “supported”.

 

[Thalios Abraxas]

I use a red Hud display, not sure if this would be to your taste but... Oh well, you can always give it a try ^.^

<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0.34, 0.33, 0.33 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixBlue>

 

[Virgil Kyle]

I'd actually quite like a blue HUD, myself.
I'd give it a go changing it, but I'm worried that may constitute as messing with the game files? (Bad?)

Though, if it's all ok, this is how my new HUD will look:

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Though maybe not quite so pink on the text, heh!

Just so you know, I've been fiddling with the colors, and I'd advise you not to trust that app too far It gives you a halfway decent approximation, but that's it, in terms of dynamically simulating the color in the picture.


Anyways, here's the thread to visit for your blue HUD, friend
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109048


And thanks to everyone else, too! I appreciate it

 

[Axeman3d]

I'd like an official tool for changing or selecting HUD colours. I (like 10% of males) am red/green colour blind and the ability to tweak to suit would be great.

 

[Arkku]

Just so you know, I've been fiddling with the colors, and I'd advise you not to trust that app too far It gives you a halfway decent approximation, but that's it, in terms of dynamically simulating the color in the picture.

Yes, it's not really possible to exactly match the colours since the app works on screenshots from the game, whereas the game itself has higher “dynamic range” in the HUD, especially different brightness settings, etc. There is also JPEG compression (as I don't want to host a PNG screenshot).

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I'd give it a go changing it, but I'm worried that may constitute as messing with the game files? (Bad?)

The developers are aware of this mod and they've even instructed 1.1 beta testers to test it:

Test if GUI Colour Changes are Persistent
Although unsupported, GUI changes should now be persistent.
Please test that any GUI customizations you make are maintained between updates.
Note this should now be modified in the new GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml

 

[Briarée]

i remember reading in a thread that this was originally planned to be supported but due to some issues, no tool was implemented ingame as of now but could be in a "near" future, just that there are (and i agree) more urgent topics for the dev to work on.

one issue that any player who changed his hud "base" color have noticed being the radar color or ship improvement color being altered as well, sometime resulting in a reverted status, so for the feature to be complete dev would need to break those various items in several layers, allowing us to only change what we want but preserve the other "critical" layer consistency

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Just so you know, I've been fiddling with the colors, and I'd advise you not to trust that app too far It gives you a halfway decent approximation, but that's it, in terms of dynamically simulating the color in the picture.


Anyways, here's the thread to visit for your blue HUD, friend
https://forums.frontier.co.uk/showthread.php?t=109048


And thanks to everyone else, too! I appreciate it

agreed on the tool, hence why i actually posted the ingame results

 

[kastia]

Just so you're aware, this is incoming with 1.1 :

- Although unsupported, GUI changes should now be persistent.
- Please test that any GUI customizations you make are maintained between updates.
- Note this should now be modified in the new GraphicsConfigurationOverride.xml