I was trying out some ui editing to customize something for myself and here's some questions that have bothered me and I'm yet to find answers.

1.) The pause menu while playing multiplayer: Is it influenced by ui.map or does it load the bitmaps from somewhere else like bitmaps.map?

2.) Why is the white text GRAY in Halo UI?

3.) Is it possible to change the string highlight color by editing certain tag? I mean when you bring the crosshair over some headers, they always change to gra... I mean.. eh.. white. Would be cool to have the highlight color set to something else.

I know it's stupid to start new topic like this but if someone else has problems with UI, I guess they could post here?

Thank you sparky!

1.) Alrighty.

2.) I also initially thought that the slight grayness has to do with alpha but the text color is indeed set to ARGB of 1 1 1 1. However, further investigation proved that the final appearance was actually 1 0.8 0.8 0.8. Your suggestion to include the text in bitmaps is actually neat idea but it will take quite a bit of extra work.

3.) I was referring more to the strings. Like in the settings menu there are texts like "Change Name", "Controls Setup" etc with turquoise color (which you can change) but when you put crosshair over them they always highlight to white (which you can't change?).
Edited by NewDoubleO1 on Aug 5, 2014 at 10:23 AM

Sparky uses a mac?

lel.

There is a misconception here and its my fault.

I do know that the button backgrounds and the main headers are bitmaps. I've had success in making the bitmaps look like I want them to look. I am only interested in your third picture which features highlighted text: "CONTROLS SETUP". Zoom in and take a look at the color. White? No.

As far as I know, the "controls setup" is not a bitmap tag. It's a string that uses large_ui.font and is pasted on top of bitmap background called list_item_bkd. It's text content can be edited from ui/shell/main_menu/settings_select/player_setup/player_profile_edit/profile_edit_options.unicode_string_list. The color can be altered from ui/shell/main_menu/settings_select/player_setup/player_profile_edit/controller_setup_profile_item.ui_widget_definition. By default, it's turquoise. I've tried making it white but like I said, the outcome is dirty.

Negative. Your 8th picture is about different text. That is the header that is located on top of screen when you select controls setup, and is indeed bitmap. Compare the fonts to see the difference - for example look at the shape of "E".

Any luck?

Np, I learned something 2 day so thanks for that.

I had to use a mac for a couple years and lived off of halo trial, my dad refused to get me an actual windows machine until a couple years ago.

because my dad used it every once in a while too. *sigh*

By the way, how do people get past the ui size limit (it's something like 35mb I believe)? What are the options? Tool_pro? Are there any downsides with that? I've heard that some people try to avoid that program.

Tool_pro is effective if used correctly. On UI maps, using tool_pro should be fine and not have issues. It's usually crazy maps with huge tags that cause crashes using tool_pro.