Changing Radio Font

[Paudge]

Can someone please tell me how to change the radio font colour and size - just like the sign that comes up for Little Haiti! Thanks a million!

[_Rob_]

try the fonts txd change eiyher of the alphas for a font and the normal texture for colour e.g change the colour from black to whatever colour you want

[Squiddy]

All offsets from american exe 1.0:

 

Font height: 0x6CD9B8 (float)

Font width: 0x6CD9C0 (float)

 

For the color, you have to patch some bytes in the executable, function calls to set the colors (pushed before the call) are here:

 

Shadow: 0x5FA1AF

Highlight: 0x5FA223

Normal: 0x5FA248

 

Might be that the last two have to be swapped.

[Paudge]

Sorry Squiddy thats terribly confusing! Could you explain it a bit more please?

[Squiddy]

Okay, I wasn't sure if you know something about that.

 

As bammargera suggested, you could try to change the font textures. But that won't work. The game executable (.exe) loads these images and displays the text. Size and color really matter on the task, so radio color is different than for example "Mission failed" text.

 

I think you know about trainer. They change the game's memory during runtime, in memory you find stuff like player health etc. And that's the same with the font size. 0x6CD9B8 is an address in memory, that points to the location where the game stores the radio font's height. In order to change it, you need a program capable of manipulating memory, for example TSearch. So you would start your game, load up TSearch, go the address and change the value. Height is 0.8 if i remember correct, so changing it to 0.4 will half the font's height. But those changes will be lost once you restart your game, they aren't permanent.

 

The problem with colors is, that they are hardcoded. It means, the instructions are inside the game's code. To change them, you need to get a program into the process of gta, so it can change the code.

 

But I think that will be too much for you, do you have any coding experience?

 

I have to learn for exams, otherwise I would write a quick program that does that for you. Maybe someone else is willing to do it or to explain it further.

[Paudge]

Thanks Squiddy that would be amazing! You would be worthy to be put down on my respect list for this!

 

I am not good at coding! I am good at modelling only!