Help with HEX Values

[Viktor_Prien]

I would like to set the black colour for certain features of the map tools ( Otherwise the current light grey used is so faint that I can barely see the number values, for example after I draw a line with the ruler on the navigation map ) but I'm a total Hex editor nerd so I need some help.

Could please some good and gentle soul write me the correct code that I should put in the HEx editor to have the lines of interest displayed in black colour?

Here is what I get from the hex editor for the address of interest. If there are other lines lines/addresses I should edit, please write them, thanks.


Description: Marks
Address: 0x103F95
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor: 33 C0 C7 41 3C BB 44 44 44 89 41 2C 89 41 28 C2
The value I should add:

Description: New Marks
Address: 0x104489
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor: 4C 24 38 EB 08 C7 44 24 38 FE 11 11 88 8B 0D 60
The value I should add:

Description: New Ruler Line
Address: 0x104A84
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor:C7 44 24 20 FE 11 11 88 8B 15 34 5A 8A 00 D9 C9
The value I should add:

Description: Protractor Placed Mark
Address: 0x1055FF
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor:3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FE
The value I should add:

Description: Compass Placed Mark
Address: 0x105945
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor:33 C0 C7 41 3C BB 44 44 44 89 41 2C 89 41 28 89
The value I should add:

Description: Protractor New Placed Mark
Address: 0x105DF5
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor:C2 C7 44 24 40 FE 11 11 88 8B 15 DC 59 8A 00 D9
The value I should add:

Many thanks in advance to the " game files guru " that will help me!

[Rosomaha]

I'm not a "guru", but the first question is: which particular file are you trying to edit?

[Viktor_Prien]

It's the SH5 .exe file.

I'm trying to follow the instructions indicated in this thread ( https://www.subsim.com/radioroom/sho...d.php?t=192896, see reply #2 ) but I do not know what are the values I have to set to change the colour to black.

[gap]

Wasn't there an option for recoloring those texts among TDW's patches?

[Viktor_Prien]

Originally Posted by gap

Wasn't there an option for recoloring those texts among TDW's patches?

There was in previous versions but now there seems to be not anymore or maybe it's in the scripts folders ( I didn't check ) or at least I didn't find it.
At least in the OFEV there is not any option for editing the tools markings colours on the nav. map ( There are a few options but none covers this aspect )

[gap]

Originally Posted by Viktor_Prien

There was in previous versions but now there seems to be not anymore or maybe it's in the scripts folders ( I didn't check ) or at least I didn't find it.

Yes, that's weird, I re-checked TDW's patcher documentation, and I found no trace of the plotting line color patch. It is odd, because I remember that that was one of the first patches released.

Not too bad anyway, you managed changing those colors anyway, and in the process you have learned something new

Originally Posted by Viktor_Prien

At least in the OFEV there is not any option for editing the tools markings colours on the nav. map ( There are a few options but none covers this aspect )

No, those colors are hardcoded, so the option to change them can't be there. OFEV only modifies UI scripts and .ini files.

[Rosomaha]

Now clear. In principle, all the necessary instructions have already been given there, I have little idea what can be added.
You need to change the 4 bytes (XX XX XX XX) responsible for the color in the specified address lines. (# FF222222, BB444444, FE111188, EE000000, …). If change on black : on FF000000, or FE000000, or 00000000, … or your other version of black.

For example:

Description: Marks
Address: 0x103F95
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor: 33 C0 C7 41 3C BB 44 44 44 89 41 2C 89 41 28 C2
The value I should add:

33 C0 C7 41 3C FF 00 00 00 89 41 2C 89 41 28 C2

Description: Protractor Placed Mark
Address: 0x1055FF
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor: 3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FE 11 11 88 (?)
111188
The value I should add:

3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FF 00 00 00

Description: Compass Placed Mark
Address: 0x105945
Code currently displayed in the Hex editor: 33 C0 C7 41 3C BB 44 44 44 89 41 2C 89 41 28 89
The value I should add:

33 C0 C7 41 3C FF 00 00 00 89 41 2C 89 41 28 89

...etc

[Viktor_Prien]

Originally Posted by Rosomaha

Now clear. In principle, all the necessary instructions have already been given there, I have little idea what can be added.
You need to change the 4 bytes (XX XX XX XX) responsible for the color in the specified address lines. (# FF222222, BB444444, FE111188, EE000000, …). If change on black : on FF000000, or FE000000, or 00000000, … or your other version of black.

For example:


33 C0 C7 41 3C FF 00 00 00 89 41 2C 89 41 28 C2


3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FF 00 00 00



33 C0 C7 41 3C FF 00 00 00 89 41 2C 89 41 28 89

...etc

First of all thanks for your help!!!!! You're great Herr Kaleun!

Second: I'm an idiot...I have now ( finally!!!) understood how it works ( Again thanks to you! )


There is only one left that I do not know how to edit it correctly because the FF is the last of the 16 couples of numbers ( or rather FE ) in the hex editor so there is not enough space left to write FF 00 00 00.

(0x1055FF) 3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FE

What part I have to edit of it? What I have to do in this case?

My guess is that the code becomes 3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB 00 --> Is this correct? * Somehow it seems to work ( Changed FE with 00 )


Again many many thanks for your help, it has been crucial!!!!

[Rosomaha]

Originally Posted by Viktor_Prien

I'm an idiot...

It's okay, I'm the same myself, and what makes it worse is that in foreign languages, too. “byte, bit, digit…-Damn it!” .

Initially, I personally did not search for anything, I took your written sets and compared it with the finished information from the topic at your link. The author has already identified the necessary addresses in the file, and the most used defult color codes for these functions of the game, and listed them. And then it's easier. In addition, “HEX-color codes” have a characteristic combination of letters and / or numbers, in small groups of code you can identify them even intuitively. You can Google "color codes", I even met online "color code converters", including those that allow you to find out the color code through a "pipette" from a sample – if you have a problem with generating the right code of the right color.

Well, I think, you understand which group of all the numbers you list is the defining one for our purposes.

Originally Posted by Viktor_Prien

(0x1055FF) 3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB FE

What part I have to edit of it? What I have to do in this case?

My guess is that the code becomes 3B D0 74 0A 3B 53 48 74 05 8B 5B 3C EB 05 BB 00 --> Is this correct?

Now I looked at the file at this specified address. And according to it, the required value is located just above the one you selected. I think you need to change the underlined:

[Viktor_Prien]

Done! Again many thanks товарищ командир!