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Sat, 14 March 2009 14:17

PaulCr

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PaulCr wrote on Fri, 13 March 2009 23:11

Does anyone know whether it's possible to change the player colours that stars uses.

Most players would like to see it, but no one has succeeded. Evil or Very Mad

If anyone manages to mod the client to do it, I'll be among the 1st to test it. Cool

That kinda sounds like a challenge so I've just took a screen dump of the game I'm in, looked up a few colour values, figured 237FFF would be a fairly low occurrence in the executable, loaded the stars exe into an hex editor, searched for those bytes, found whats looks like colour values and so changed it to FFFFFF, saved it, loaded the game again and hey presto, the colour has changed to white. That's about the limit to what I would have done, anything more difficult would have probably required one of the disassembler guys such as kotk.

Should take less than 30 minutes to write something to allow them to be changed so I should get it done over the weekend, not sure if it will affect anything else though such as the scanners, hopefully not but even if it does it would still be useful to be able to set them to whatever you like.

If someone wants to experiment with it in the meantime the offset for player 14 which is the one I searched for is located at BCAA2h in the 2.6JRC4 exe and each colour takes up four bytes in the order RGB0 as they are included in the file, ie 8 bit bytes rather than a 32 bit word.

Edit: just done a quick look to see if the pen scan colour 606000 was included in the 16 colours there and it wasn't so they do look to be unique to the player colours.

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		Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Fri, 13 March 2009 18:11
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: gible on Fri, 13 March 2009 18:32
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Fri, 13 March 2009 18:44
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: gible on Fri, 13 March 2009 18:58
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Fri, 13 March 2009 19:47
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sat, 14 March 2009 14:17
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Altruist on Sat, 14 March 2009 13:42
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sat, 14 March 2009 16:41
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: gible on Sat, 14 March 2009 17:02
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Sat, 14 March 2009 17:15
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sat, 14 March 2009 17:28
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sat, 14 March 2009 17:31
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Sat, 14 March 2009 21:20
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: gible on Sat, 14 March 2009 23:36
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Sun, 15 March 2009 06:23
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sun, 15 March 2009 17:14
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Mon, 16 March 2009 14:07
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Altruist on Mon, 16 March 2009 17:06
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Mon, 16 March 2009 18:16
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Tue, 17 March 2009 05:47
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Kelzar on Fri, 20 March 2009 15:54
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Fri, 20 March 2009 19:38
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: slimdrag00n on Sat, 14 March 2009 19:58
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Sat, 14 March 2009 20:09
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: slimdrag00n on Fri, 20 March 2009 20:34
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Eagle of Fire on Sat, 21 March 2009 02:50
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Kelzar on Mon, 23 March 2009 08:54
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: m.a@stars on Tue, 24 March 2009 05:51
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Kelzar on Tue, 24 March 2009 07:32
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: slimdrag00n on Mon, 23 March 2009 11:19
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: gible on Tue, 24 March 2009 00:56
		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: PaulCr on Wed, 25 March 2009 16:42
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		Re: Changing Player Colours? By: Altruist on Sat, 18 March 2017 19:01
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