EQInterface Forums - switching lifebar colors/graphics....

12-23-2002, 01:52 AM	#1
Dagrath A Fire Beetle Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2	switching lifebar colors/graphics.... in the skin I currently use (a modified version of the Crystalmethod Vert skin).... the lifebar in player window and the lifebars in group windows are a nice shade of silver. And the lifebars for a player who is zoned out is a really nice shade of blood red. Well.... what I would love to be able to do is reverse the colors, so that zoned out players are silver, and my lifebar and the lifebars of my groupmates are the blood red. I would hope this would be fairly simple, can anyone give me some hints on where to start?

12-23-2002, 09:23 AM	#2
Chronwaas Skinner Extraordinaire Join Date: Jul 2002 Server: Saryrn Posts: 421	Ok you will need to become comfortable with XML programming to do this but here goes. With in the xml files for your windows that you are wanting to change there will be sections for the gauges. it will be different depending on the window you want to edit but as an example the one for the Groupwindow first group member would be <Gauge item = "GW_Gauge1">. once you find this section you need to find the entry in it that is labled <FillTint>. In this section is defined the RGB values for your color. You will need to find these values for the two that you want to switch the colors of and notes what the values are. You will need all three parts of the Red Green Blue values to make the colors you are looking for so make sure you get all of them for the olor you want. Next you just change the one you want ot change to the new three part color code and save the files. you will need to do this for all of the gauges that you are looking to change. Not entirely sure whether you can actually change the color of the out of zone gauge color but if someone else knows about that part they can chime in here. __________________ ChronWaas: 33 Bard, Saryrn Chronania: 44 Necromancer, Saryrn

12-24-2002, 11:25 AM	#3
aeluin Denizen of the Interface Join Date: Sep 2002 Server: Tholuxe Paelis Posts: 279	For some reason the zoned-out color seems to be hardcoded. It's really weird what's hardcoded and what's not...doesn't make a whole lot of sense =/ __________________ "All that is gold does not glitter, not all those who wander are lost; the old that is strong does not wither, deep roots are not reached by the frost. From the ashes a fire shall be woken, a light from the shadows shall spring; renewed shall be blade that was broken, the crownless again shall be king." -Aragorn's Theme by J.R.R. Tolkien

12-24-2002, 01:09 PM

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Originally posted by aeluin
It's really weird what's hardcoded and what's not...doesn't make a whole lot of sense =/

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12-24-2002, 02:26 PM	#5
Dagrath A Fire Beetle Join Date: Nov 2002 Posts: 2	thanks for the help! So what determines the zoned out gauge color if you can't change it manually? My current UI is definitely not the default color it is in the normal UI....

01-28-2003, 01:13 AM

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For some reason the zoned-out color seems to be hardcoded. It's really weird what's hardcoded and what's not...doesn't make a whole lot of sense =/

SOE has been telling us this for years!

I'm sure they grind their teeth all the time when they run into these kinds of things. It's really too bad that Everquest was designed before the revolution of in depth modifiable games.