Can I change con colors?

[baldric]

It's really hard for me to read the red text, and that makes the world very dangerous if I'm KoS somewhere. Is it possible to change the color of red cons?

Also, is it possible to make fonts bigger?

[mcoy]

You can edit text colors in the eqclient.ini file, but you'll have to look up / figure out which "User_##" colors to change.

It's much easier to just change the color / texture of the chat box that those are going to by right clicking it and editing it.

/chatfontsize 0-5 changes font size of chat in game, or I think you can set it as high as 6 - again by editing your eqclient.ini.

-Mcoy

[Kich867]

You can edit text colors in the eqclient.ini file, but you'll have to look up / figure out which "User_##" colors to change.

It's much easier to just change the color / texture of the chat box that those are going to by right clicking it and editing it.

/chatfontsize 0-5 changes font size of chat in game, or I think you can set it as high as 6 - again by editing your eqclient.ini.

-Mcoy

Holy shit thanks, I did not realize I could bump fontsize up, maybe I'm finally getting old but on 1080p the window is just barely too small for me to read easily.

[Bbeta]

Holy shit thanks, I did not realize I could bump fontsize up, maybe I'm finally getting old but on 1080p the window is just barely too small for me to read easily.

Just went from 1080 to 1440 Nd I feel bind AF. /chatfontsize 1-5 to change in game. Have to type it in respective chat window for each windows font to change. I think 3 is default

I'm using /chatfontsize 4 currently

[Scoojitsu]

You can edit text colors in the eqclient.ini file, but you'll have to look up / figure out which "User_##" colors to change.

Can you actually change the color of the consider messages that way?
I'd love for that to work! I often can hardly read the dark blue consider.

[loramin]

Just as a side note, most text colors in the game can be changed within the game, on the "Colors" tab of the Options (ALT + O) window.

However, for some odd reason Verant didn't want you changing /con colors, and so you have to use Mcoy's neat trick of editing eqclient.ini.

[mcoy]

Can you actually change the color of the consider messages that way?
I'd love for that to work! I often can hardly read the dark blue consider.

Looks like I was wrong - it's the "TargetIndicator.ini" file that's in your game folder / uifiles / <name of ui you're using > . That has the RGB values for each of the consider types in it. Although, I'm not sure if you're allowed to edit these, or if the client checks these files on startup (especially on green where they force their version of the classic UI).

I find it much easier to just set the background of my chat boxes to black, turn texture on, change alpha to 100% and faded to 50%. I just mouseover the box if there's text I can't read easily and when it darkens back to 100% I can read it fine.

-Mcoy

[mcoy]

Nope - wrong again. That's for changing the colors of the "target ring" that live uses... Let me keep digging.

-Mcoy

[mcoy]

Hrm - found this:

http://www.jaburt.com/eq/eqclient.htm

But I don't see consider colors listed...

Think your best bet is to just edit the window color / texture itself to whatever makes the cons easiest for you to see.

Sorry fellas!

-Mcoy

[Scoojitsu]

Thank you for your effort, mister mcoy!
One would think that changing the consider color would be an easy option. It doesn't give an advantage or change the game in any way.

Toying with the chat box background is a way to make it work I guess. But it takes away from the visible area on the screen. (fade/mouse over being a good compromise)

[Kich867]

Is there a way to set this by default? I have to reset it right now every time I log in, "chatfontsize" that is.

[mcoy]

It's in the eqclient.ini file.

-Mcoy

[baldric]

Thanks for all the chat window info, it's helping alot. When I ask people how to get fullscreen to stick (it keeps revering back to windowed for me) they say to set resolution and screen size in eqclient.ini . I don't see anything there, but eqlsUIConfig.ini seems to have lots of confusing data like that. I can't find a guide for that online...Anyone?

[loramin]

Thanks for all the chat window info, it's helping alot. When I ask people how to get fullscreen to stick (it keeps revering back to windowed for me) they say to set resolution and screen size in eqclient.ini . I don't see anything there, but eqlsUIConfig.ini seems to have lots of confusing data like that. I can't find a guide for that online...Anyone?

These are the relevant eqclient.ini lines. I'm not sure they're all relevant, but some subset of them are.

WindowedWidth=1915
WindowedHeight=1030
Width=1675
Height=1000
WinEQWidth=1790
WinEQHeight=1040
WidthWindowed=1790
HeightWindowed=10401

[aubie]

I find it much easier to just set the background of my chat boxes to black, turn texture on, change alpha to 100% and faded to 50%. I just mouseover the box if there's text I can't read easily and when it darkens back to 100% I can read it fine.

-Mcoy

That's what i do on blue. Can't get it to go full black on green. Is it possible on green?

[mcoy]

That's what i do on blue. Can't get it to go full black on green. Is it possible on green?

The method I described above is how I set them on Green to be full black. Make sure you turn the texture on.

-Mcoy

[aubie]

That worked. I didn't have texture on, so that fixed it to the dark black look. Thanks!