Sonar Color Display Change

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Could anyone advise how I can change the Sonar Display Color from Orange to Blue in using a HEX Editor?

This would be greatly appreciated.

[Krabb]

As posted by dasOoops from RedRogers you need two offsets:

Interfaces/NON_NUKE_SUB/SonarBB.dll, offset 0x16048: RR GG BB,
Interfaces/NON_NUKE_SUB/SonarNB.dll, offset 0x14184: RR GG BB.

I use HxD as HEX-editor.

Here's what you need to do:

• Open the file.
• Go to offset (press Ctrl+G, enter offset value without 0x prefix).
• Set the color in 3 bytes, starting from the offset given.
  For SonarBB.dll there will be lines like:
  

  Offset(h)  00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
  00016030   E5 F7 30 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   å÷0'............
  00016040   59 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 FF 7D 00 00 00 FF 00 00   Y...X...ÿ}...ÿ..
  00016050   12 28 00 00 19 28 00 00 05 28 00 00 13 28 00 00   .(...(...(...(..

  I've marked the bytes you need, ignore cryptic symbols on the right. So, FF is hex-number for red, 7D - green and 00 - blue. Just replace them with hex-numbers for your color. But do not add any new bytes, just replace the existing!
• Save the file.

[Fearless]

Originally Posted by Krabb

As posted by dasOoops from RedRogers you need two offsets:

Interfaces/NON_NUKE_SUB/SonarBB.dll, offset 0x16048: RR GG BB,
Interfaces/NON_NUKE_SUB/SonarNB.dll, offset 0x14184: RR GG BB.

I use HxD as HEX-editor.



Here's what you need to do:

• Open the file.
• Go to offset (press Ctrl+G, enter offset value without 0x prefix).
• Set the color in 3 bytes, starting from the offset given.
  For SonarBB.dll there will be lines like:
  

  Offset(h)  00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F
  00016030   E5 F7 30 27 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00   å÷0'............
  00016040   59 00 00 00 58 00 00 00 FF 7D 00 00 00 FF 00 00   Y...X...ÿ}...ÿ..
  00016050   12 28 00 00 19 28 00 00 05 28 00 00 13 28 00 00   .(...(...(...(..

  I've marked the bytes you need, ignore cryptic symbols on the right. So, FF is hex-number for red, 7D - green and 00 - blue. Just replace them with hex-numbers for your color. But do not add any new bytes, just replace the existing!
• Save the file.

Much appreciated... I actually checked the Virginia class and used 00 AF FF for the colour change.

How or where could I do this change in the SonarDemon.dll?

[Krabb]

If I'm not mistaken, for SonarDemon.dll offset is 0x00011064.

[Fearless]

Originally Posted by Krabb

If I'm not mistaken, for SonarDemon.dll offset is 0x00011064.

Thanks for that Krabb... I tried the setting changes but only the text Heading colour changed to Blue.. The waterfall remained unchanged (Orange).

[Krabb]

There are two other offsets in SonarDemon.dll: 0x00011064 and 0x0001106C. The first should be for the font color, and others for the background color and the signal color.

You can find them yourself, in NON_NUKE_SUB there are two color versions for each sonar station: standard and with '_b" in the name. Just binary compare them. I used standard fc utility, it gives the following:

>fc /b SonarDemon.dll SonarDemon_b.dll

000027A1: FF 00
000027A2: 7D AF
000027A3: 00 FF
00011064: FF 00
00011065: 7D AF
00011066: 00 FF
0001106C: 00 FF
0001106D: FF 00

See all offsets I mentioned? Just compare the files and try the offsets found.