How to change your hud coloring.

This is a guide for people who are having trouble changing the hud color in elite dangerous.
PLEASE NOTE!!!!
You can not change any singular icon's color ALSO IMPORTANT the site's sliders say 100,99,98 but however the matrix reads it as 1,.99,.98 values, THE MATRIX READS THE COLORS AS VALUES BETWEEN 1-0

Getting started (steam users) ((There will also be one for elite dangerous standalone installation))

every page/selection will have a summarization at the bottom.
As always in every guide that involves editing game files, MAKE SURE YOU COPY THE FILE YOU REQUIRE SOMEWHERE ELSE BEFORE EDITING SAID FILE Ie MAKE A BACKUP! First locate where your steam's cloud saves are on your computer. The file is dependent on where you've placed your steam install, for me its as follows
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common Some people may have it set to a specific folder or downloaded it onto a USB so if you can't find it there, look in those areas. Also might want to go to this link, I didn't make this little gizmo but here I use it the site is optional you don't really need it. however the screenshots shown will be the widget. http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/

Summarization of page

• Make copy of the XML file.
  
• locate steam cloud saves. (C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common)
  
• open up page http://arkku.com/elite/hud_editor/ (optional but will help)

Getting started (standalone users)

Typically with standard computers and stuff, You'd look for it in a folder around this area here
C:\Program files Or C:\Program files x86 Apart from that I dunno how to help you as I do not have standalone.

Locating the file (graphicsconfiguration.XML)

This is simple.
Once you've opened your steam cloud save, you'll wanna scroll down to your elite dangerous file.
Once in the file it should list all the contents of the file (as should any file on any computer).
Click the Products file, then from products go to Elite dangerous-64 So the final file path should be.
C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Elite Dangerous\Products\elite-dangerous-64 Or something like it.

After locating the file.

!!!!!!!!!COPY BEFORE OPENING!!!!!!!!!

Once the XML file (using notepad/brackets) is opened up, scroll until you find GUIcolor, then directly below that should be localisationname standard. The matrix blue red and green values are what you want to edit.
Now stock the hud elements look like this. <MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>

But if you play with the sliders you could get a number of combinations. The next section I'll have examples. but for now my hud is a clear night vision green.

!!!!!!DO NOT EXPECT THE ICONS TO STAY THE SAME!!!!!!!

by this I mean the Friend/Foe/Neutral icons on the radar (minimap for you plebs that call it a minimap) it seems that the icons rely soley on the middle value, but i could be wrong. all I know is that friend or foe is changed to a different color, so just watch for that. (bottom left of the color changer) After you've gotten a coloring you want, at the bottom left of the screen theres a little white box In that box, follow the instructions on the website or dont, they are posted here regardless.
In order to make them persistant after updates, find or create the xml file inside your home directory under the (possibly hidden) directory AppData/Local (Windows) or Library/Application Support (OS X), and there under the directory Frontier Developments/Elite Dangerous/Options/Graphics (unless you are using steam, then literally follow the instructions told in the guide to find it.) The file can be used to override any settings found in GraphicsConfiguration.xml, but for setting the HUD theme its contents should be:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8" ?>
<GraphicsConfig>
<GUIColour>
<Default>
<LocalisationName>Standard</LocalisationName>
<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 1, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
</Default>
</GUIColour>
</GraphicsConfig>

I personally haven't tried this, if anyone does and it works then yay post it in a comment and I'll add it to the guide and you'll recive credit.

• Open the XML file.
  
• Find GUIcolor.
  
• Play around with the sliders on the website.
  
• slap the matrix into your file.

Examples of some of the combos.

This one is pure, purple! (hehe nice)
<MatrixRed> 1, 0, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 0, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 1, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
I call this one (along with many other people) The ghost hud.
<MatrixRed> 1, 1, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 1, 0, 1 </MatrixBlue>
This one is a neato blue purple and red design.
<MatrixRed> 0, 0, 1 </MatrixRed>
<MatrixGreen> 0, 0, 0 </MatrixGreen>
<MatrixBlue> 1, 0, 0 </MatrixBlue>

if anyone wants to add to this example list, I'll gladly add em, just send me the matrix data and i'll add it to the list :)

The rep!

Rep me boyos, I'm sure this helpped because I literally simplified it, If you need me to add something I will, anything just request and I'll see what I can do. Also I hope you SAVED THE XML FILE BEFORE DOING ANY OF THIS

[Dawne the bun]

I was about to comment on my own fricken guide telling the dev (myself) to do a thing and many other things! XD

[martinex77]

That's very cool!