How to change menu font color?

[Ty294]

Hello there,

I'm currently working on a mod for Jedi Academy and as part of the mod I'm making some edits to the main menu. I was wondering if it is possible to change the color of the text on the main page, and if so, where that is defined? I assumed it was set in a shader somewhere, but I couldn't find anything. And a couple of searches of this site also didn't help me any, so I guess I'm wondering if anyone here knows and can point me in the right direction?

Thanks.

[TempestRevan]

It's pretty simple. The text color is defined in the .menu files itself. You just need to change the forecolor viable.

		// Big button "NEW"
		itemDef 
		{
			name				newgamebutton_undertext
			group				toprow
			style				WINDOW_STYLE_EMPTY
			type				ITEM_TYPE_BUTTON
			rect				36 194 130 24
			text				@MENUS_NEW
			font				1
			textscale			.7
			textaligny			0
			textalign			ITEM_ALIGN_CENTER
			textstyle			1
			textalignx			65
			forecolor			1 0 .33 1
			visible				0
			decoration
		}

Above I changed the first number of forecolor in the main.menu to 1, which would cause the game to show the aurabesh on top of the new game option in red.

The first 3 numbers are the values for RGB from 0 to 1 (1 would equal 255, I think you understand) and the last one is the alpha value, I think. I never changed it so I'm not sure about this one.

 

Another possibility is to the same method like with colored name in multiplayer (eg. ^2RandomText) which I find a little bit easier. Just open the .str file and put a ^ with a number in the beginning of the text.

I hope it is understandable enough.

May the force be with you

[Ty294]

Thank you very much, that was what I needed to know! This has been very helpful!