PC: Intermediate- Changing Font Color

[343 Guilty Spark]

If you ever wanted to know how to change font color, Here's How. This was NOT written by me. It was writted by BorgScooby.

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Go into your halo folder, mine is C:\Program Files\Microsoft Games\Halo and look for the folder called content, open it up and you should see lost of un-recognised files called 576editbox,480log... etc.

These are the resolution sizes that your ingame text is stored on so if you want to change the text of 800x600 resolution, you would need to go to 600log and if you want to change the resolution of 1024x768, you would need to go to 768log and so on. Double click on the file and it will say it doesn't know the file extension, just choose open with selected program and choose notepad. Open it and it should bring up a box something like this...



Now you can start doing some tweaking to the text. Lets start with the color, at the moment it's set at ffffffff which is white. You have to use HTML (hex code) code to change the color but heres a link to a color code:

(Edit: I have used the chart on the link and made one out of it below I made it just in case the site ever goes down, and so it's easier to access for dial-up users.)

e.g. replace ffffffff (white) to FF0000 to make your text red.


To change to text size just change the values, and to change the font, do the same thing. Only certain fonts work but i use 'comic sans ms' and that font is cool and seems to look good at 1024x768 res.

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If you wanted to you can move the text around the screen to where you want it and how many lines you want the text to be. The default is 8 lines and you can't make it any longer but you can make it shorter. I would just experiment with things, that's what i did to find things out and what each item does.



You can change the edit box (the thing where you type your message when you push 'T' to talk to other players) but i wouldn't bother.
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