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

I just use the paint can.

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

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. :)

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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

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! :) )

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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