Hacking Changing Wii's Text Color? (New Mymenuify Theme inside)

[sketch2k278]

Here's a theme that I created using another theme as a base (just replaced all the images with the ones I created) now the only problem that I have is everything loads fine no bricked wii incidents or anything like that my issue is the fact that since I did use another theme to recreate mine the text is yellow but I would like to change that to dark blue now I did look through the Customizing a Wii Theme tut and read how benzin can be used to edit colors.... My issue is I don't know how to go about doing this.... here are some screens
Warning screen

Other screens

Now here's a video of it in action

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PpJalPXZZsU

Now the name of this them is called Wiidows 7 Ultimate all I need is to change that black background and the text color. If anyone can help me with I would be glad to release this theme....
Thanks in advance and let me know what you think

 

[SifJar]

The clock is done with images, found in ChanSel.ash : http://www.fathertom.net/hardwii/systemdump/chansel/Chansel-Ash-Breakdown.htm (ChanSel.ash is found within 00000001.app in the directory \layout\common\)

The date is probably in a brlyt. I haven't found it as of yet, but I'll have a quick look and see if I can find anything that looks like it could be it.

 

[sketch2k278]

Thanks SifJar im currently doing the time now as we speak.....
as far as data is concerned what do you mean? (the yellow color?)

 

[diddy81]

The clock is done with images, found in ChanSel.ash : http://www.fathertom...h-Breakdown.htm (ChanSel.ash is found within 00000001.app in the directory \layout\common\)

The date is probably in a brlyt. I haven't found it as of yet, but I'll have a quick look and see if I can find anything that looks like it could be it.

only the shape of the is clock is controlled by the tpls in chansel.ash
to change the color you need to edit the my_Clock_a.brlyt from chansel.ash


the date is colored by the my_IplTop_c.brlyt in the board.ash
look at the T_Day_a T_Day_b and T_Day_c panes

 

[sketch2k278]

only the shape of the is clock is controlled by the tpls in chansel.ash
to change the color you need to edit the my_Clock_a.brlyt from chansel.ash

How do I edit the color from a brlyt file? I know that its done by wordpad but im not sure which tag is the color tag that I would need to change
and what does my_TVSheet_e.tpl control exactly? does it control what is circled in the pic?

 

[diddy81]

use benzin to edit the brlyts
i think its just the backcolor tags you need to change but changing the forecolor doesnt hurt as we always changed both

my_TVSheet_e.tpl controls the black part in your pic thats above the line but below the channels

 

[SifJar]

use benzin to edit the brlyts
i think its just the backcolor tags you need to change but changing the forecolor doesnt hurt as we always changed both

my_TVSheet_e.tpl controls the black part in your pic thats above the line but below the channels

I think he means the colour of the actual line.

EDIT: And if the alpha of the forecolor is zero (as it seems to be in the brlyts in the regular SM), only the backcolor will be displayed, so it wouldn't matter. And if you change the alpha of the forecolor to 255 as well, only it will be displayed. But it would make a difference if the forecolor was somewhere between 0 and 255, and was a different colour to the backcolor.

The clock is done with images, found in ChanSel.ash : http://www.fathertom...h-Breakdown.htm (ChanSel.ash is found within 00000001.app in the directory \layout\common\)

The date is probably in a brlyt. I haven't found it as of yet, but I'll have a quick look and see if I can find anything that looks like it could be it.

only the shape of the is clock is controlled by the tpls in chansel.ash
to change the color you need to edit the my_Clock_a.brlyt from chansel.ash


the date is colored by the my_IplTop_c.brlyt in the board.ash
look at the T_Day_a T_Day_b and T_Day_c panes

Ah, thanks.

 

[sketch2k278]

use benzin to edit the brlyts
i think its just the backcolor tags you need to change but changing the forecolor doesnt hurt as we always changed both

my_TVSheet_e.tpl controls the black part in your pic thats above the line but below the channels

use benzin to edit the brlyts
i think its just the backcolor tags you need to change but changing the forecolor doesnt hurt as we always changed both

my_TVSheet_e.tpl controls the black part in your pic thats above the line but below the channels

hmmmm.... ok so the black part would be the Transparency? and the white part would be the image?

 

[SifJar]

What are these black and white parts you are talking about? EDIT: Ah you meant on the TPL. diddy81 explained perfectly above.

In the my_IplTop_c.brlyt file, for example, there is the following entry:

GX_ALWAYS
GX_ALWAYS
GX_AOP_AND
00
00

These two lines govern the colour of the text:

As forecolor has an alpha (a) of 0, you can ignore it as it is not displayed. Edit the red (r), green (g) and blue (b) values of the backcolor to change the colour of the text. You also need to edit this line for T_day_a and T_day_c.

 

[diddy81]

looking at the tpl the white part is the part of the screen the clock is in
but its colored black by the brlyt

 

[sketch2k278]

Before I forget I do want to thank SifJar and Diddy81 for the assist on this theme it really means alot that the both of you are helping me out on this

 

[diddy81]

no probs m8 its better to learn than to ask people to do it all for you

 

[sketch2k278]

These two lines govern the colour of the text:

As forecolor has an alpha (a) of 0, you can ignore it as it is not displayed. Edit the red ®, green (g) and blue (b) values of the backcolor to change the colour of the text. You also need to edit this line for T_day_a and T_day_c.

ok now i notice that in the xmylt there are multiple forecolor and background tags..... I have to change all of them the the same value correct?
on another forum it is said that its best to edit these in wordpad and not notepad but wouldn't it be easier to change the values all at once in notepad?

 

[diddy81]

yes if you want them all the same color

 

[SifJar]

ok now i notice that in the xmylt there are multiple forecolor and background tags..... I have to change all of them the the same value correct?
on another forum it is said that its best to edit these in wordpad and not notepad but wouldn't it be easier to change the values all at once in notepad?

I don't think the editor should make any difference to how easy it is to change values, but Notepad will mess up the line endings, and the edited files won't work. Personally I use Notepad++ for this sort of thing: http://notepad-plus-plus.org/ (it has highlighting to make life easier when editing files - just set the language to XML when you have opened the XMLYT file)

 

[diddy81]

yep i recommend notepad ++ too

 

[sketch2k278]

yep i recommend notepad ++ too

already got it lol
Now is there a color chart like website? im use to doing the colors by 6 numbers (#000000) lol

EDIT Nevermind i found one lol

 

[sketch2k278]

I wish there was a tutorial on how to edit BRLYT Its like I don't know where to begin

 

[diddy81]

closest you will get to a tutorial is the parts for the wadder wiki i saved it was wrote for the old benzin but its still worth a look

you can find it here

 

[sketch2k278]

closest you will get to a tutorial is the parts for the wadder wiki i saved it was wrote for the old benzin but its still worth a look

you can find it here

Tried that site already but sadly the pages lead me to a page of a girl smiling holding a backpack i believe lol