Mc360 Font Colour Profiles - How To Make Them. Options

[Loaded_Gun_Complex]

Anyone know what to do as far as making the text document mentioned on BB's website for making the text colours?

This post has been edited by Blackbolt: Jan 20 2007, 09:03 PM

[Jezz_X]

Its real easy LGC so I'll post some info here
Basically we made a script that will change the text colors in the includes xml by reading a small text file with the extenstion .cof

The text file must have this layout to it
Default for mc360 looks like this

TextcolorGrey=FF888888=textcolor
TextcolorDarkGrey=FF353535=textcolor
TextcolorWhite=FFFFFFFF=textcolor
TextcolorBlack=FF000000=textcolor
TextcolorDisabled1=60000000=disabledcolor
TextcolorDisabled2=60d0d0d0=disabledcolor
listselectedcolor=FFFFFFFF=selectedcolor
shadow-black=FF000000=shadowcolor
shadow-white=FFffffff=shadowcolor
shadow-grey=a0dadada=shadowcolor

You can then just save it ftp it over to your xbox Press start for the guide then "Personal Settings\Customise Theme\Font Colors\Read from file" and find the file you made and load it. the script will then change your colors and reload the skin

This is how the colors translate to the skin

name="shadow-grey" = MainButtons Text shadows
name="shadow-black" = White Text shadows
name="shadow-white" = GamerTag Shadows

name="TextcolorGrey" = Playlists now playing text
name="TextcolorDarkGrey" = Non Selected Blades
name="TextcolorWhite" = Blade titles and A,B,X,Y,white,black Button text
name="TextcolorBlack" = Buttons, List, Active blade Text
name="TextcolorDisabled1" = Disabled Buttons main windows
name="TextcolorDisabled2" = Disabled Text/buttons Dialog windows
name="listselectedcolor" = Selected Items Text Color

Now you can set these to any valid color valid colors are like so
FF000000
the first 2 letters the bit in red are how transperant a color is if you make them 00 the color will be fully invisible and you wont see it and FF is no transperancy at all
The last 6 letters are the actual color and you can get those from most graphics programs or download this nice little tool made just for the xbox
http://www.xbox-skins.net/forums/index.php?download=1480

As you can tell you can change the colors to pink green purple anything you want as long as the .cof file is the valid format above

This post has been edited by Jezz_X: Sep 20 2006, 12:24 AM

[roormonger]

Open up the extras folder in inside the MC360 folder and you will see a folder called "Sample Color Themes" open any of those files like a text document and how they should be setup will be pretty self explanitory. After you make your own you can then use the text color changer in the guide blade and choose "Read From File" and then pick the text color setup that you have made. Your custom text color setups have to be saved as whatever.cop. Here is a list of hexdecimal color codes. Remember that the first 2 characters are for transparencey, FF being solid.


I guess me and him responded at the same time.

This post has been edited by roormonger: Sep 20 2006, 12:26 AM

[mikester18]

I'm working on editing the xmls to allow for more specific color changes for instance the ability to just change the font of the gamer cards and the blades instead of all of the text anyone interested in such a mod??? if so i will post the files when i am done editing them.

[roormonger]

Hey that idea sounds familiar, where have I seen that before? Oh I remember now, I saw it on my mod when I did it. The only reason I didn't do it this go around was a mix of laziness and the whole point of me doing it before was just to hold people over till the new version came out. I must admit that more specific control over what text gets changed would be nice but is the way you do it gonna allow the script to change it?

[Blackbolt]

Well we had it created in early August, not long after we released our previous build. We cannot help it if others create mods of features we have already done, its happening all the time. We try to help modders as best we can.

[Jezz_X]

Well we had it created in early August, not long after we released our previous build. We cannot help it if others create mods of features we have already done, its happening all the time. We try to help modders as best we can.

yeah I would like someone to point me in the direction of any xbmc skin that has the same level of customization as mc360 seriously I'm begging to think every one is spoilt

[roormonger]

If those sny comments were directed at me I believe I said from the begining that I didn't come up with the idea, I just did it before because I didn't want to wait for it. I am fairly happy with the way the text color system works now that I know exactly how to change everything. I'm sure it will get better along the way. And your right there is no other skin that allows as much customization nobody is denying that. I don't think I am spoiled cause if I want something to be different I don't sit back and complain about it till someone else does it, I will take the time to do it myself.

This post has been edited by roormonger: Sep 20 2006, 04:24 PM

[mikester18]

Hey that idea sounds familiar, where have I seen that before? Oh I remember now, I saw it on my mod when I did it. The only reason I didn't do it this go around was a mix of laziness and the whole point of me doing it before was just to hold people over till the new version came out. I must admit that more specific control over what text gets changed would be nice but is the way you do it gonna allow the script to change it?

I'm not reinventing the wheel or stepping on anyones toes i just needed more control over certain aspects because i have a mix of light and dark parts on the theme i personally use which is the spidey theme by mbezik and yes it will work with the color changing script it is setup to read any includes so in a way team blackbolt expected someone to come along and add a more advanced option should be done soon expect the ability to just change the cards font color and just the blades font color.

[roormonger]

I didn't mean that to sound mean or anything. I'm not accusing you of stealing work or anything I was just being trying to be funny, apparently unsuccesfully. I could care less if some uses an idea that I came up with as long as they don't turn it into crap, and I mean really it's not like theres patents on anything here no one is making money doing this stuff. Now i'm not saying that I came up with THAT idea, I was just speaking generally I know how stuff can get blown out of proportion really quick around here. Anyway looking forward to trying it out.

This post has been edited by roormonger: Sep 20 2006, 05:33 PM