The in game colour scheme and HUD Display Thread

[555inuyasha]

let me hop in and see if I can find out what your looking at.

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do you have it set on allegiance in the view tab?

red-----fed
blue----empire
green----alliance
yellow-----independent

 

[555inuyasha]

What system are you in?

 

[XaraDeVir]

What system are you in?

Wikanawal

It's not allegiance, just checked.
"Show by Color" is none
"Show by Size" is none.
"Show trade routes is off".

I think I figured it out.

When you have the map in 'realistic' mode, the colours (and sizes) represent the differing colours of the mains stars of the systems.

It must default to this as well when you change to map view if you don't have anything else selected. Almost everything in my area seems to be "K" through "Proto" stars, with the colors matching the odd ones I was seeing.

thanks guys

 

[stoicfury]

Exhaust colors

The exhaust left behind by ships varies in color. Is this based on the ship, the grade of the drive, or both?

 

[cmdr lowest]

Just the type of ship I think.

 

[Nor-Man]

I have seen ships exhaust change from blue to yellow. I think it has to do with their throttle setting. My guess would be that it is blue when in the "Sweet Spot" and yellow otherwise. But that is just a guess.

 

[GNThrone]

Alliance color on galaxy map

The alliance color as I see it on stations and ships is a dark shade of green. (While I would actually want the color to be brought back to orange as it was originally) The color on the galaxy map should be changed to match that dark green color. As it stands, light green is too close to yellow which makes it difficult to identify when you're in alliance space littered with independent systems.

So, please change the galaxy map color for alliance from light green to dark green!

 

[JustSomeCMDR]

GUI Color customization

I only found out about this GUI color thing about a day ago and I'm still new to it, yet I have a question:
I'd like to find out how to customize very specific GUI elements.
The editor I was directed to does not allow the specific elements I'd like to change the color of.
Or... Is this not possible, I haven't seen it done.

 

[Ben Parry]

Sadly, it's just a single global colour shift, not a per-component tweak. The thing applying the change has literally no idea what panel it's affecting, or even what the options might have been.

 

[JustSomeCMDR]

Sadly, it's just a single global colour shift, not a per-component tweak. The thing applying the change has literally no idea what panel it's affecting, or even what the options might have been.

Unfortunate, I had a feeling that was the case.
There's a patch coming up, I guess I can hope the developers notice this and make some changes to allow individual component color changes. (and possibly add this feature to the in game options menu)
I can't imagine it to be too difficult...

 

[Privata]

One day they said they might.
You know whats funny? I used to love orange ; I used the orange hud in Xwing alliance I loved the orange in ME2 and moded all the X games to have orange hud... and know its here in elite I want to go pure white but keep red and yellow and green radar blips

 

[Tinman]

Unfortunate, I had a feeling that was the case.
There's a patch coming up, I guess I can hope the developers notice this and make some changes to allow individual component color changes. (and possibly add this feature to the in game options menu)
I can't imagine it to be too difficult...

Oh...I got a feeling that the devs knows about it...
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...especially since the guy you just responded to is one of the graphic programmers on the game.

 

[EAGLE 5]

Oh...I got a feeling that the devs knows about it...
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...especially since the guy you just responded to is one of the graphic programmers on the game.

Nice! so they go incognito these days?
Back on the color talk.. I tried to model my palette after the Amga Elite Blue/Green coloring scheme just for a throwback.. The challenge is always in keeping 3 separate colors because it's easy to wash them all out. If you do take up modifying the color scheme use the 3 elite rankings as your basic gauge to see if you're going to lose one or more colors. That's what I did and I'm pretty satisfied with what I could come up with.

 

[Ben Parry]

Oh...I got a feeling that the devs knows about it...
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...especially since the guy you just responded to is one of the graphic programmers on the game.

Ah... was. But yes, we...they...know about it well enough.

 

[Tinman]

Ah... was. But yes, we...they...know about it well enough.

Shifted over to another project internally then?

 

[EAGLE 5]

Shifted over to another project internally then?

Judging from the avatar.... I'd say externally.

 

[Dante80]

Ah... was. But yes, we...they...know about it well enough.

Seems like we have lost our head of rendering. Sad to see you go Ben, but good luck in your endeavors and thank you for all you have done for us! <3

ps: If you are with Erin and co. now in Manchester, you'll still have many of us fans and dual backers watching you. Cheers, and keep up the good work C:

 

[Jenner]

Seems like we have lost our head of rendering. Sad to see you go Ben, but good luck in your endeavors and thank you for all you have done for us! <3

ps: If you are with Erin and co. now in Manchester, you'll still have many of us fans and dual backers watching you. Cheers, and keep up the good work C:

What Dante said.

 

[mojonaut]

Judging from the avatar.... I'd say externally.

yeah that and the lack of a Dev coloured splash on the post

 

[Marc Alexander]

Seems like we have lost our head of rendering. Sad to see you go Ben, but good luck in your endeavors and thank you for all you have done for us! <3

ps: If you are with Erin and co. now in Manchester, you'll still have many of us fans and dual backers watching you. Cheers, and keep up the good work C:

Bummer...

Well, best of luck with your future endeavours Ben, and thanks for all your great work on ED (and I'm sure, other Frontier games)