Tiny details in *raceconfig.xml* but weird, nevertheless.

And, green lights or yellow glimpses for fonts & text, everywhere.

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Is it me or the trade movies weren't all showing up as they should during the UnitedPlanets meetings?
Because, i noticed...
the bik files were saved as #_small in the Movies folder when the default/installed/valid/permanent raceconfig.xml listed them as "RaceImage??_small/happy/neutral/angry(s).bik".

No wonder i couldn't see their glowingly/gradiently/shaky heads & faces. Edited the xml and -bang-, slick animations now hover all over the place while i'm taking an important decision (which, btw, i'd wish for that meeting to happen more often, somehow - every six/four (hummmm: Quarterly GNN news, make the researched Robots optional even, semestrial exams and results, TOP-ten military report power *only*(btw), etc.) months or UPON specific event-driven features!).

As an aside question;
Can the standardized yellow/orange/like default color for the interface fonts in some text and numerous menus/+/screens/+/listings be modified or be made optional or even, be tied with a race currently in use?
Cuz, i'm really starting to blink at the same date/turn/zoomer-number/shield line(etcs) info. BC value gets its own red alerting! Approval percentages do stand out if shining green maximums.
You get my drift. Not a bug, more like a formal request for a slight adjustment.

Please, i'd certainly use & really enjoy a more "complete" customized interface - specially when it comes to TEXT and visual effects.

- Zyxpsilon.
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Bump...

Kay, i feel soooo silly.
What actually happened is that i had *renamed* the trade movies to the shorty but incompatible length since i figured they were "looking" better and would be easier to search for! Duh-
Corrected everything right back to defaults. Fixed.

Although, i still would like to obtain a kind-of response from any SD-Coders about the "Yellow/Text" issues as i seriously believe such a simple alteration feature should be made optional on the Interface settings screen.

Another small thought on a related subject, please.

Shadowing of the top-sections on almost every pop-ups is somehow "interfering" with a few cue-symbols...
(Examples;
1) the *i* shortcut to define ship automations via a sub-pop.
2) the races influence/territorial ratios as they are colored (& so modified from the actual real hues defined) on the side-bar) can rapidly mix into false evaluations!
3) the trade screens of X-Worlds could use a much clearer top section of their biks since that invaluable space (32 pixels here, 64 there!) would be used to design animation/symbol/gradient/progress-bars sort of stuff rather than overlap the main-pictures.

I DO understand these could always be altered by modding the numerous dxpack files parameters - i possibly will have to, but giving us a configuration slot as an option should solve many "problems" i or anyone else experienced with the glow effects.

Thanks for any reply, this time around.

- Zyxpsilon.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
I think those font colors that aren't modified during the game to reflect good/bad values should be moddable in the dxpacks, but anything that does change color mid-game is most likely in the code.
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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
You mean, as INTO each and every dxpack basic references to the "yellowy" text?
Outch, that hurts. Considerable editing would be necessary for such a simple thing. Strange though that with all the present customization features already there, nobody bothered with the main interfacing of some fonts. DL-blues, DA-reddies, many races & all with deterministic designs, a few concept-based arythmia/ethics with Menus and capitalization of WHITES cue-text... but nothing to alter from yellows to what i'd prefer -- slicky/toned/greys or even, optional to many others if and when.

I'll try the dxpack(s) editing suggested and see whatever it comes to. Still, i guess the code-gang should have a look at the possibility.

Thanks.

- Zyxpsilon.