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Subject: Changing Background Color in Poser 5- A way found.


volfin ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 12:59 AM · edited Wed, 25 December 2024 at 10:34 PM

I remember someone mentioned that they could no longer change the background color the Poser 4 way. They are right, but here's a (bit complicated) way. You first must go use the color picker to find a suitable shade you like. Write down the Red Green and Blue Values somewhere. You now must convert these numbers to 1 long number. Multiply the Red number by 65536. Multiply the Green number by 256. Don't change the Blue Number. Add these 3 numbers together. Save the Result. Go to Poser5/Runtime/UI directory. Copy posershell.xml to posershell.txt. Open the Posershell.txt file and behold the glory of XML. Near the beginning of the file is a line that says


EricofSD ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 1:03 AM

I just use the paint can.


phoenixamon ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 1:35 AM

The paint can doesn't work for me. Eric, did you try it in P5? Did it work? Were you facing east? Burning incense? Chewing gum? I must know. Phoenix


XSashaX ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 2:14 AM

ummm...go into the material room, click on the triangle next to object and select background. Little thing in there called BG color. You can mess with the color in there. :)


Teknal ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 2:28 AM

file_23412.gif

In the pose room (main screen) just click on the paint can (where my arrow is pointing) and go into the window and when you click again up comes the color chooser. phoenixamon, are you saying that doesn't work for you?

-Teknal


phoenixamon ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 2:29 AM

Oh, I didn't mean the document background. I thought we were talking about the UI color, which you used to be able to change from tan to another color using the paint bucket. My mistake. Phoenix


Teknal ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 2:58 AM

Hope you find an answer. I never changed UI color in P4 so I misunderstood too. :) -Teknal


Jackson ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 8:52 AM

Phoenix, the original threads volfin was talking about was about the ui color. You were correct. I wonder if Xshasha was referring to that, too? I'm gonna try it.


volfin ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 9:17 AM

Yes, I am talking about the ugly grey gradient UI background that Poser has. The material room background mentioned is for the background picture in the Camera view. You use to be able to use the eyedropper on it to change it's color but no longer.


phoenixamon ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 2:50 PM

Well, I did try editing the color in the XML page, and that went fine. I wish I could find which lines define the color of text in the parameters palette. If you're going to write your interface in flippin' XML, there is absolutely no reason not to give people a dialog to change the colors and such. That's just lazy. Phoenix


maclean ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 3:21 PM

Go to Poser5/Runtime/UI directory. Copy posershell.xml to posershell.txt. Open the Posershell.txt file and behold the glory of XML. Near the beginning of the file is a line that says ......and? mac


Teknal ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 3:50 PM

file_23413.gif

Cool! Mac, look at the second widget line after all the PSDFILe lines. name="eGradientBackground", look for the parameter on that line called color="13879224". I changed it to 0 and got black. I'm not sure what color space it's using though and how to derive a number for the color you want. If you figure it out post it here.

Btw, I backed up the file first and used notepad to edit it!

-Teknal


maclean ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 4:40 PM

Thanks teknal, I was beginning to wonder if Volfin had switched the font color to black or something! For now, I'm still waiting on p5 arriving, but I'm going through the forums using ctrl-c/ctrl-v like crazy for my new 'how to install poser 5 without ending up in a lunatic asylum' file! here's hopimg... mac


bloodsong ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 4:50 PM

thank goodness. isn't there any line in the poser ini file or something? or is this xml stuff replacing inis? wonder if it will save with the ui settings. i hope. (hey, i have six different colour versions of my poser ui, so sue me! :) )


Teknal ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 5:30 PM

Not sure yet but maybe a python script can access this value? Also, one side-effect I noticed is that the figure and figure part text can't be read (too dark) unless you hover over it when the background color is set to 0 like in the above image. I changed it back but I like the black background. Will have to find the other parameter for the text. -Teknal


volfin ( ) posted Thu, 12 September 2002 at 11:07 PM

Sorry, message must have been cut off. to continue: Near the beginning of the file is a line that says


bloodsong ( ) posted Fri, 13 September 2002 at 3:58 PM

can you also find out how to change the text colour? sometimes those things are hard to read.


volfin ( ) posted Fri, 13 September 2002 at 11:11 PM

Unfortunately I don't think there is an easy way to change the text color. A lot of it is pre-rasterized in some photoshop files in the same directory. It's a pretty complicated scheme they are using. A little too complicated IMHO. But if I figger it out, i'll let ya know.


EricofSD ( ) posted Sat, 28 September 2002 at 9:19 PM

Looks to me like the hex color code was converted to binary. I'll experiment a bit and if that's so, will post the equivelent numbers for various colors.


c1rcle ( ) posted Sun, 20 October 2002 at 3:46 AM

changing the text color is pretty easy, in the posershell.xml file there are a number of lines with TextColor="-1", change the -1 to something higher, mine are set at -200 which changed the text to green & yellow


BeatYourSoul ( ) posted Sun, 23 February 2003 at 9:15 PM

This is a little late, but just in case nobody figured it out: The "big number" colors in the posershell.xml are just the combined hex values converted to decimal. 13879224 = D3 C7 B8 = 211, 199, 184 (RGB) That simple! BYS


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