Changeing the colour of owned objects on mini-map

Any one know off hand if we can chage the colour ouf our own objects on the mini-map, via XUI or something? I find it had to see the green dots on the light blue sometimes.

Thanks

Yep, I have this problem, too. The Cliffs bathes the mini-map in a sea of light blue that drowns any green dots around.

I'd love to have a solution to this as well.

Since no one replied with an answer, I did a bit of digging this morning. In the folder where you installed SL, there is a folder called 'app_settings'. In that folder is a file called 'colors.ini'. Open that sucker up and in the comments are the instructions for making your own colours. I added these lines:

NetMapYouOwnAboveWater 255 128 0 255
NetMapYouOwnBelowWater 192 96 0 255

making my items show as orange, a bit easier to see the green dots or T's on the map now at a glance.

WOW! Much better!

It's something that's been bugging me for a long while, but it didn't occur to me that it would be so easy to fix.

thanks!

No prob. It's been bugging me forever too, just finally got off my ass to try and figure it out

Thanks a million Dnel,I never understood why LL chose that blue color for owned objects,not enough contrast there.

On a side note:how will we get valuable information like this after the forums close?I've seen this question asked several times,even in Linden parts of the forum and it has never been answered untill now.

My understanding is that forums such as this one, are not going to be closed. I think its general, land and economy, sandbox and political science are being closed, but I 'd have to look again to see if thats right.

EDIT: it's those 4 plus bulletin board.

D'Nel should be a scripter!

For the Mac people out there, this works as well, but its a bit different to find the colors.ini file since macs use a single 'pakcage' .app file and not an install with a bunch of subdirectories.

in Finder, right click (or Ctrl+click) on the SecondLife.app file then choose 'Show Package Contents' .. then double click on the 'Resource' folder, then double click on the 'app_settings' folder and you'll find the 'colors.ini' file in there. ini files arent linked right by default (at least they werent on mine) so youll want to right click the file and choose 'Open With' On the following menu change 'Recommended Apps' to 'All Apps' and choose to open it in TextEdit. You can then add those lines to the bottom and save and close.

The draw back is the Mac client updater gives you a whole new SecondLife.app every time there is a new release, and I'm guessing it'll give you a default colors.ini every update.

Dnel, you are my hero for today.

Oh, and since they're moving toward .xml configuration files, it'd probably be better to put this in colors.xml in between the <settings> tags:

<NetMapYouOwnAboveWater value="255, 128, 0, 255"/>
<NetMapYouOwnBelowWater value="192, 96, 0, 255"/>

Awesome thanks Lex, good tip. To LL: It would be a good idea to include the comments from the colors.ini in the colors.xml.

*BUMP*

After the updates, my settings got overwritten and I had to look for this thread again. Since it got lost in the flurry of threads regarding the problems with the updates and others may have be looking for it as well I though I would bump it.

To recap the best way to do this is:

Put this in your colors.xml file (found in the app_settings folder in the Second Life install folder, typically 'C:\Program Files\SecondLife\app_settings' on a Windows machine) in between the <settings> tags:

<NetMapYouOwnAboveWater value="255, 128, 0, 255"/>
<NetMapYouOwnBelowWater value="192, 96, 0, 255"/>

Yay for bumps!!!