so I was going to go through the process of making a CCR toml file for this, but it turns out not to be possible. Apparently, the SetINISetting command in the console is currently busted for setting colors. no combination of hex or digits or whatever can get it to work. That having been said, it IS possible to create some reasonable settings that are highly visible and pleasant to look at, so I've included those here. But there is no current way to set a value using CCR that will include a blue value. red and green only. Thus, the CCR toml here is going to set the history text to a fairly bright green and the textcolor to a fairly bright yellow. Enjoy. I will include the toml in a reply to this comment shortly.
[[Event]] EventType = "DataLoaded" Commands = [ # Changes to console parameters, with defaults in comments # Buffer size for the console, default 16384 'SetINISetting "iConsoleHistoryCharBufferSize:Menu" 65536', # Opacity for the console background, default is 50 'SetINISetting "iBackgroundOpacity:Menu" 77', # Percentage of the height of the screen the console should occupy, default is 40 'SetINISetting "iConsoleSizeScreenPercent:Menu" 80', # Font size for the console text, default is 20 'SetINISetting "iConsoleTextSize:Menu" 14', # Text color for the console history, default is 153,153,153 (grey) 'SetINISetting "rConsoleHistoryTextColor:Menu" 0x0000AA', # Text color for the console command text, default is 255,255,251 (almost white) 'SetINISetting "rConsoleTextColor:Menu" 0x00CCCC' ]
You need CCR loaded to use this, and then create a BetterConsolePanel.toml file in SFSE\Plugins\ConsoleCommandRunner with the contents shown above. Feel free to use this or add it to the mod as you see fit EnchantedDuck.
is it possible to make console take all the screen vertically on the left , but only half of the screen or 40% horizontally ? like some sort of padding from right
i cant get it to work for some reason. I am using another console mod that adds a new console window, but that shouldnt matter as I still have the default console. Im using MO2 and ive added all the INI settings to my custom ini, both in the MO2 profiles folder and the default vanilla game ini location (%User Profile%\My Games) .. so im not sure why it isnt taking effect. I might try adding the ini settings from within game, but I think when you do that it writes them into starfieldprefs .. not certain on that though. Anyone else using MO2 and/or the BetterConsole mod?
So history refers to what's being shown in the console after commands are executed, but you can also find this file in "Documents/My Games/Starfield" and it will be called "StarfieldConsoleHistory.log"
This is amazing! I've been having issues seeing the text of the original console because of the opacity. I can't wait to try this out. I've always just delt with it in all the beth games.
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[[Event]]EventType = "DataLoaded"
Commands = [
# Changes to console parameters, with defaults in comments
# Buffer size for the console, default 16384
'SetINISetting "iConsoleHistoryCharBufferSize:Menu" 65536',
# Opacity for the console background, default is 50
'SetINISetting "iBackgroundOpacity:Menu" 77',
# Percentage of the height of the screen the console should occupy, default is 40
'SetINISetting "iConsoleSizeScreenPercent:Menu" 80',
# Font size for the console text, default is 20
'SetINISetting "iConsoleTextSize:Menu" 14',
# Text color for the console history, default is 153,153,153 (grey)
'SetINISetting "rConsoleHistoryTextColor:Menu" 0x0000AA',
# Text color for the console command text, default is 255,255,251 (almost white)
'SetINISetting "rConsoleTextColor:Menu" 0x00CCCC'
]
like some sort of padding from right
Never mind. It was right in front of me
(I lied, by sanity is long gone, but at least i am less vex'd)
iConsoleHistoryCharBufferSize=65536
I see that being recommended a lot lately.
thanks