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My monitor has problems with deep reds like the default spellbar. The folks in #acdev told me that skins don't work anymore. Anyone know of any other way to change the color ?
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Yeah turn off the red balance on your monitor 
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You could make a HUD overlay I suppose...
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Actually my monitor CAN'T display red anymore, thats the problem. When it's a light red, the other colors chip in, but the dark full red just appears as black.
How would I made a HUD overlay ?
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Maybe you should get a new monitor? CRT's have dropped extremely low in price, can get a new 19" CRT for like $30
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Cool, since you seem to have extra money, please paypal it to me, address is in PM. Thank you.
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Ok, Let's just get the obvious in the clear here. No one is going to write a plugin to replace the health bar because 1 user has a broken monitor. There are no bmpswap replacement utilities, nor does there seem to be any current interest in doing so.
I'd suggest either getting a new monitor or finding a cheaper hobby. Sorry.
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<< Cool, since you seem to have extra money, please paypal it to me, address is in PM. Thank you. >>
Cancel your AC subscription for 2-3 months, save the money, get a monitor, re-subscribe.
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Or just work an extra 5-6 hours at your crap job and buy one.
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Tsk, tsk. Really should all that stuff you agreed to when you installed AC.
<< b) As said, if money comes that easy to all of you, feel free to send me some. >>
My ten year old can save enough to get a monitor via his allowance, doing extra chores, and collecting cans. I'm sure you can manage.
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Calm down man. I never said I had any extra money to give out. I made a suggestion, a straight forward and honest suggestion. $30 is not a lot, just put away your change every night in a jar or something.
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Actually if you don't require a 'new' monitor just a working one, try looking at the craigslist for your area, or any of the other 'free' advertising lists for someone getting rid of a old monitor. It's the best way to recycle an old working CRT, give it away :^) Worth a shot.
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Depending on where you live, I have a 17" monitor sitting in the basement I would give you.
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1) You have a broken monitor.
2) You came to the Utility boards asking for a plugin that will change the color of your health bar, because you can't see it, because your monitor is broken.
3) Go buy a new monitor ferchrissake's!
4) Oh - you are destitute, you can't afford a new monitor, which you could buy new for 50 bucks or used at a garage sale for 10 - but somehow can afford the time & money to play Asheron's Call.
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Twist, the reason you're getting such unpleasant replies is as follows:
1) There has been little demand for an updated bmpswap utility (the program that allowed for skins), so while I suspect (and hope) one will eventually come out, it's not going to happen any time soon.
2) Writing anything (new bmpswap, plugin for an overlay, etc) to give you a work around for your problem would take a fair amount of time and effort.
3) People write utilities for AC with the intent that they will be used on correctly functioning pcs. No one writes a utility for a broken pc.
4) Repairing your pc would not take an extraordinary feat of effort on your part. You could make the money needed for a new monitor by mowing your neighbor's lawn a few times. You clearly have the pricier elements of a pc needed to run AC (DX9 compliant video card, sufficient ram and HD space, etc); it just doesn't make sense to keep driving a BMW with a cracked windshield and then complain that its hard to see.
Conclusion: since YOU are unwilling to take the fairly simple steps required to repair your pc, it is highly unlikely that someone in the decal community is going to put in the hours of work required to write a workaround for you. It isn't like you need a plugin to help you with a handicap or some other such meritous condition; you need a plugin to deal with a problem you yourself are unwilling to correct.
No one is going to help you; you may as well just let this topic die.
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I don't know how you people managed to twist your reality to where I ask for someone to write me a tool, but maybe you should read my initial post again. I'll paste it for you here:
"The folks in #acdev told me that skins don't work anymore. Anyone know of any other way to change the color ?"
Care to point out where I'm even remotely asking for someone to write me a plugin ?
Now, to adress some specific points:
I have neither time, money nor interest to play AC. I wanted to log on, solo AE or something and then forget about AC again for another year. How someone would twist "I haven't played AC for years and I'm don't have a subscription" into "I have the time and money to play AC" is beyond me. I'm looking at you, Chazcon.
My 'attitude' is asking if there was still a way to use skins or change colors in AC. On a utilities board, I don't think it's entirely unreasonable to ask for AC utilities. My attitude didn't become anything but polite until AFTER people started to rip on me for being an idiot, being cheap, having a crap job, etc. My thread isn't 'lame', its a thread asking if there is a utility on the utilities board. Again, perfectly reasonable.
As for the bmpswap, I have considered fixing it, after someone was friendly enough to tell me what bmpswap *IS* instead of insulting me. It seems to be a really minor problem and shouldn't take longer than an hour. However, half a day of following this thread has made me seriously reconsider this. I already got my AC fill by playing without a visible health bar (the numbers still show and my char is high enough to manage, even though it's not much fun), and quite frankly, the community apparently turned into a bunch of jackasses while I wasn't looking, so my desire to do anything for you is less than zero.
Again, I didn't ask for someone to write me a plugin for my specific needs. I still don't get what on gods earth would make you think that.
As for your last point, you have no idea wether or not it would be 'easy' for me to get that money. Mowing lawns might sound easy for a spoiled kid living in mom's basement, but the world isn't all flowers and milkshakes everywhere.
Maddy, thanks a ton, but I live in europe, so I doubt thatd be feasible 
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No lawns in Europe? =/
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Actually when someone suggested what seemed like a simple and inexpensive solution of buying a $30 monitor, your answer was rude.
He was just trying to help.
What happens when you lose health? Are you able to see that? Black health doesn't seem that bad considering you couldn't change it to red anyway.
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Black health on black background means all I can see are the numbers.
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when the bar moves down, as your hp goes down, are you able to see it move?
when you click on it and it changes a tad, numbers added or removed inside hte bar, does that have any affect?
will turning up the brightness help any at all ?
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Have a look in Control Panel -> Display, Settings tab, Advanced. Not all graphics cards are the same, but on most you can adjust the contrast, brightness etc. of red/green/blue separately. I can't test what would be effective without a broken monitor, but if you try adjusting the settings for red, you might be able to make it visible enough to use.
If you can find a red on black image to have on display while you're adjusting it, you can see what'll work without switching in & out of AC.
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His problem is that the red gun in his CRT is worn out. He could open it up and adjust it a little (if he knew what he was doing). But when the red gun goes you can't see any red.
Afraid your best fix is to wait till you have the cash to replace it  .
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Elgar, I can solder a new plug, but thats about it. I doubt I could fix the problem you described, although I understand what the problem is. But thank you for the suggestion.
Chazcon, I have the same right to come to these boards you have. I wanted to play AC, I had a question about AC plugins, thats it. I came to the right place. But it's nice to see that instead of addressing my arguement you would dwelve into personal attacks, yes, much more mature.
As for your entirely pointless rant about me acting like a brilliant programmer, get a grip. BMPSwap is an incredible simple tool and by what I saw from the (four pages) of source and heard in #acdev, the changes needed are absolutely minimal. The solution for the fix is already been coded in whatshisnames DatUtils, so it's not like much ingenuity or knowledge would be required. Just because you don't know how to program (I'm just assuming, since you seem to think every small change requires brilliant talent and weeks of work) doesn't mean nobody does. How you come up with lines like "And somehow feel that there was some interest in "the community" for YOU to fix it?" is beyond me, as I never said or implied anything even remotely close or related to that.
Quite frankly, your 'replies' read as if you saw an extra row of lines in all of my posts that nobody else does. You imply that I said all kinds of things which I never said nor suggested, as is seen perfectly in your above reply. I don't know what all of that is about, nor do I much care, but its ironic that you of all people would tell me to search for mental healthcare. Oh well, curse of VN I suppose.
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From what I've heard playing inside a CRT monitor can be fairly dangerous as there's usually a big capacitier inside that could either give you a bad shock or even potentially kill you.
If your monitor is missing the red gun it's probably impacting more than your back for one month AC play, spending a small amount of time to see if anyone was replacing/dumping a working monitor doesn't sound unreasonable to me, although I don't know if that happens in europe as much.
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/yawn/ now I'm bored with pulling the wings off this fly.
As one final suggestion (and I do mean final), I recommend that Twist take the back off his monitor, plug it in, put on a blindfold, and attempt to fix it with a screwdriver.
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<3 Weezing.
Maglett, thanks for the tip, I know how to protect myself from power surges, I'm not entirely daft 
Chazcon, nice to see you don't even pretend to have any argument anymore.
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<< From what I've heard playing inside a CRT monitor can be fairly dangerous>>
As one that has worked with CRT's in the past, you are correct. I saw someone get knocked across the room due to not discharging the tube correctly before working on it.
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<< Maglett, thanks for the tip, I know how to protect myself from power surges, I'm not entirely daft >>
This isn't a power surge, this is electricity being stored in the CRT, which is acting like a capacitor. Unless you know how to properly ground a CRT to work on it, then you shouldn't be working on them.
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