[Question] How to change dialogbox background image and fonts colors?

frostysh · February 2017

I am already finished my cosmetic GUI mod for BG2EE v2+, but I cannot change the last thing - the dialogbox image background and font colors of that box. In the previous version, I changed GUWBTP.MOS or something like that, - and its worked fine. But now I have checked UI.menu fields near 11730, and found no references on any MOS

.
So how I can change that stuff?

Thanx for the answers.

lefreut · February 2017

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frostysh · February 2017

Cool thanx.

How I can find this corresponding file for myself, without askin a question on forum next time?

Is this *.PVRZ files can be modyfied same as *.MOS, with help of Nearinfinity? Crating image, than exporting to the *.PVRZ ?

Okay, I will try.

lefreut · February 2017

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frostysh · February 2017

But the [i]rectangle 4[/i], and BOX5.PVRZ - the different numbers 4 and 5. Anyway I have managed (thanx to you) to change the DialogBox bagckground image (this is only a test version).

https://s28.postimg.org/hbxv4pr25/for_forum_BG2_EE_Dialog_Box_mod.jpg

But there is another problem, I have changed the all "text style" that I have found in stuff that connected to Dialog box:
Line 11751 UI.menu,


	text
	{
		name "worldMessageBox"
		area 28 135 816 102
		text lua "worldMessageBoxText"
		text style "CGuiMod"
		scrollbar	'GUISCRC'
		scrollbar func "chatboxScroll"
	}

Line 11965 in UI.menu,



	text
	{
		name "worldNPCDialog"
		area 84 22 749 38
		text lua "worldNPCDialogText"
		text style "CGuiMod"
		scrollbar	'GUISCRC'
	}

Number of line 11973 - Dialogbox stuff.


	text
	{
		name "worldDialogMessageBox"
		enabled "showWorldMessages"
		area 20 -124 813 124
		text lua "worldMessageBoxText"
		text style "CGuiMod"
		scrollbar	'GUISCRC'
		scrollbar func "chatboxScroll"
	}

Number of line 12023 - Dialog.


			text
			{
				area 0 0 -1 -1
				text lua "getDialogEntryText(rowNumber)"
				text style "CGuiMod"
			}

But without much of success as we can see. CGuiMod is a stuff, that I have created in BGEE.lua :


CGuiMod = 
	{
		color = 'Y',
		font = 'NORMAL',
		point = 12,
		valign = 'top',
		halign = 'left',
	useFontZoom = 1,
	}

Which is represents "normal old-school" black font. But I have a hell no idea how to change that light-blue stuff for responses of guys. Will be good even left its light-blue but at least ad a dark borders, because it is hard to be distinguished from the background for now

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agris · November 2018

lefreut said:
Hello,

For the background image, this is set in UI.menu with 'rectangle 4'. This correspond to the file box5.PVRZ.

For the font color, you can use 'text color R G B A' in the text section you want to change.

Do you know how I can modifiy *how* rectangle 4 pulls data from BOX5.pvrz? For example, in your mod, the border in BOX5.pvrz is 4 pixels wide, but when I replace it with a 6 px width border, only the 4 that overlap with the original coordinates will display. Rectangle 4 displays MOS v2 behavior, yet there's no "rectangle4.mos".

Separately, for the center 192 x 192 grey transparency background in box5 that is used by rectangle 4, only a 2x2 grid of those 192^2 pixels are sampled to draw the rectangle.

When I replaced your grey transparency rectangle with this texture (converted to pvrz using DXT5 by NI):

I get this dialogue window behavior:

Interestingly, the corners are correct 6 px width, while the vertical and horizontal linking sections (pulled from box5.pvrz I believe) are only the truncated 4 px width.

I'll try replacing the rectangle 4 call in WORLD_DIALOG with my own .MOS. Maybe that's the solution.

[Question] How to change dialogbox background image and fonts colors?

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