Solved Advanced Interface and Flags Code (and much more)

[Hylie Pistof]

This looks like it will be a very popular addon.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I'm sure it will be. We lost that choice with Build 14, so it's great to bring it back.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

I only just noticed you can TYPE in the ship selection "Tier" box as well as use the Left/Right arrows.
Pretty cool, but if you fill in a blank, you can get to see some funny stuff like "prison ships" and crazier.
So does anyone think we need to keep that type box or is it enough to just have the arrow keys?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

And I figured out how to make those Pop-Up menu's BROWN:

With some trial-and-error, we can make it any colour we want. Does this look about right

 

[Thomas Colodel]

Very good

 

[Hylie Pistof]

Is that brown or black?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Transparent black. That was the simplest to achieve. These are the relevant lines in RESOURCE\INI\NEW_INTERFACES\select_storyline.ini:

[DIALOG_WINDOW]
bNotUse            = 1
bAbsoluteRectangle    = 8
position        = 60,110,580,420
leftColor        = 255,255,255,255
topColor        = 225,0,0,0
rightColor        = 255,255,255,255
bottomColor        = 225,0,0,0
 
[TITLE_WINDOW]
bNotUse        = 1
command = deactivate,event:exitCancel
position    = 100,110,540,136
imageColor    = 125,255,60,10

Specifically those colour-related ones. The first number is related to the transparency and the other three are, I think, Red, Green and Blue.
I messed around with that "TITLE_WINDOW" quite a bit to make that background brownish instead of having to make it fully transparent.
However, [DIALOG_WINDOW] is still all black. I'd quite welcome someone to try and figure out some better colours. Indeed it DOES look very dark now.

Edit: Seems like editing topColor and bottomColor is enough. How is this for example?

It's even possible to make a colour progression, though I did not do that here.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Anyone got any other comments on this interface? It is the first thing players will see when they get the new update; it had better work and look OK!!

 

[Hylie Pistof]

It is too dark and drab to suit me. I like bright colors and lots of contrast. Dunno what others think.

 

[Cassadar]

Yes, a bit too dark and it doesn't contrast well with the background that way. Maybe more like this?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

Indeed I'm not the biggest fan of "dark" either. I reckon that does look better, Cassadar!
Did you do that as an edited image or by tweaking those code values to make it work in the game?

Strangely enough, there is no texture work required here; just editing those code files.
Annoyingly though, it seems the "natural" colour for that stuff is blue, so the RGB values don't work as you'd expect.
When I took a nice colour from Paint and filled in its RGB values in the code, it looked way wrong.

 

[Cassadar]

It's just an edited picture, but I can also try that in the code if you like.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

If you wouldn't mind giving it a try. I do believe your artistic eye is more tuned than mine.
I've been looking at code too long; it's been years since I did proper modeling or texturing.

Edit: OH.... if you get round to trying this, note that you can update the interface WITHOUT closing and opening the game.
Just Alt+Tab out of the game to make the adjustments, then exit Select Storyline to the main menu and the next time you re-open the interface, it'll be the version you just changed.
Saves quite a lot of time when you find yourself trial-and-erroring around.

 

[SankaDaVinci]

Cant access the download page :/

 

[danitim1]

Guys, when i click the link, it says error could not find page. What to do?

 

[Pieter Boelen]

You mean from the opening post of this thread? That is old. See here instead: http://www.piratesahoy.net/threads/build-14-beta-3-progress.20686/

 

[Cassadar]

God, this forum skin confuses me.
About the colours, that code seem to work quite strange sometimes. One time I changed only the transparency and suddenly the whole popup window was green; interesting.

Anyway, this

[DIALOG_WINDOW]
topColor = 215,42,24,10
bottomColor = 215,42,24,10

[TITLE_WINDOW]
imageColor = 120,46,28,12

makes the popup interface look like this:


Similar at least, but not quite right.

 

[Pieter Boelen]

God, this forum skin confuses me.

Same here!

About the colours, that code seem to work quite strange sometimes. One time I changed only the transparency and suddenly the whole popup window was green; interesting.

Indeed it works VERY strange. That's why I left it where I left it.

Similar at least, but not quite right.

I'll take what I can!
The background of the title seems a bit too dark though; doesn't quite blend in with the brighter pop-up screen....

 

[Cassadar]

The background of the title seems a bit too dark though; doesn't quite blend in with the brighter pop-up screen....

Yes, and I try to get something different at the moment, but it behaves quite similar. One time it was bright violet. Well, at least we have no problems anymore to attract some Hippies (if there ever is the need). *cough*

 

[Armada]

The background of the title seems a bit too dark though; doesn't quite blend in with the brighter pop-up screen....

That background texture shouldn't even be used; it's part of the stock game interface which was made transparent for the brown interface.