Changing Colors in Boxscores For Penalty Shots

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Changing Colors in Boxscores For Penalty Shots

Post by Minstrel »

I personally designed all of my skins before the NA Update which means that I wasn't able to test these colorizations.

What I'm talking about is when there is a shootout in the boxscore at the bottom there is a listing of the shooters and next to them is a button that says either 'Goal' or 'Miss'. If you don't like those colors and would rather have a green button for 'Goal' and a red button for 'Miss' like in this pic instead:

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All you need to do is go to your data/skins folder, and open the .col file of whatever skin you are using (for the default skin it is 'ehm_default.col') in a text editor.

Those are listed by number so near the bottom find 84 and 85 and replace the text there with this instead:

# MATCH_SCREENS_EVENT_MISSED_PENALTY_COLOR
84 119 15 15

# MATCH_SCREENS_EVENT_SCORED_PENALTY_COLOR
85 14 87 16

Another quick fix while you have the file open; on your player stats pages if you like me find that the yellow and orange shades of stat numbers are too close together and you would rather have this for stats coloring:

Red for 1-6
Orange for 7-11
Yellow Yellow for 12-16
and Green for 17-20

This is the way I have my skins set already so you don't need to make the change for them (and you can see this system used in my screenshots for example the screenshot for CustomColor Dallas. For any other skins especially the default I think you will find this scale easier to use. All you need to do is go down a few more lines to items 88-91 and paste this in instead:

# PROFILE_ATTRIB_LOW
88 211 72 85

# PROFILE_ATTRIB_NORMAL
89 239 151 4

# PROFILE_ATTRIB_GOOD
90 237 214 20

# PROFILE_ATTRIB_EXCELLENT
91 98 168 60

Then just save the file and next time you start your game you will see the changes. By the way if you hate the colored stats and want all of them 1-20 to just be white then you can delete lines 88-91 entirely ;)

If anyone has any questions about this just let me know!

To learn more about how to change the games colorizations click this link for my Complete Guide To The .col File.
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Post by hluraven »

I've done this tweak, yet again a little improvement that looks so much better, thanks Minty =D>
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Post by Minstrel »

Just a note to let people know I've fully cracked the .col file code after some recent testing preparing a new skin; all questions can be answered in the .col file guide in the Knowledge Base's Graphics section :joy:
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