Goldwell 2499 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 Now that Windows has (finally) implemented a dark mode is it possible to integrate that into Dark Radiant? A lot of my mapping is usually done late at night and the bright white background of dark radiant is quite blinding, now that Windows has a dark mode it's even more noticeable. If it's not possible to integrate the windows version of this is it possible to theme or change the white areas of DR to be much darker? Here is a comparison shot between DR and the new dark mode explorer And here is my very quick paint mockup of what DR could look like 3 Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Snowed Inn | Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse Link to post Share on other sites
peter_spy 1615 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 (edited) It would be great to have something like 3dsmax have been using for a long time now: Edited January 10, 2019 by Judith Quote Misc. assets for TDM Link to post Share on other sites
OrbWeaver 662 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 As far as I can see, the wxWidgets toolkit doesn't allow for much (if any) explicit control over theming, but just tries to emulate the native platform theme. So the question is, which version of wxWidgets is going to support the Windows dark theme. It seems the the latest release is introducing initial support the dark theme on macOS, but I don't see any mention of Windows. Maybe this is already supported in an older release (but still newer than the one DR is currently using), but it's also possible that they haven't addressed Windows at all yet. Quote DarkRadiant homepage ⋄ DarkRadiant user guide ⋄ OrbWeaver's Dark Ambients ⋄ Blender export scripts Link to post Share on other sites
Obsttorte 1556 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 I am using f.lux for quiet a while now, which may be of help until something changes in that regards (if it changes, of course). Although I have to admit that besides the practical reasons the dark look definetely has something to it. 1 Quote FM's: Builder Roads, Old Habits, Old Habits Rebuild Mapping and Scripting: Apples and Peaches Sculptris Models and Tutorials: Obsttortes Models My wiki articles: Obstipedia Texture Blending in DR: DR ASE Blend Exporter Link to post Share on other sites
Amadeus 374 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 I am using f.lux for quiet a while now, which may be of help until something changes in that regards (if it changes, of course). Although I have to admit that besides the practical reasons the dark look definetely has something to it. I definitely second this. I've been using f.lux for years now and it definitely helps reduce eyesores when on the computer at night. Quote FMs: A Good Neighbor Link to post Share on other sites
STiFU 766 Posted January 10, 2019 Report Share Posted January 10, 2019 Windows 10 has f.lux sort of built in now. You can just enable its Nightmode and adjust color temperature etc. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
NeonsStyle 595 Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 Late but has anything changed in this regard? As of this year, I've become quite photosensitive, and white screens viewed for a while tend to cause migraines. I'd love it if this was possible now. I already use the black image method, but would be great to get all the white windows into grey or dark mode. Quote I have an eclectic YouTube channel making videos on a variety of games. Come and have look here:https://www.youtube.com/c/NeonsStyleHD Dark Mod Missions: Briarwood Manor - available here or in gamehttp://forums.thedarkmod.com/topic/18980-fan-mission-briarwood-manor-by-neonsstyle-first-mission-6082017-update-16/ Link to post Share on other sites
greebo 86 Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 Nothing new to report. I did a quick google recently, but this didn't produce anything useful - from what I've read it's the Windows controls themselves that don't support a dark theme, it's only implemented in some of the modern apps like the calculator. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
New Horizon 539 Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 Dark Radiant had the ability to change to dark colours in older builds, has that changed? Quote Link to post Share on other sites
peter_spy 1615 Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 You can change the ortho view colors only. Quote Misc. assets for TDM Link to post Share on other sites
LDAsh 59 Posted November 20, 2020 Report Share Posted November 20, 2020 www.violae.net/temp/DR208_Win7midnight.jpg It does jive pretty well with custom themes for Windows 7. From what I understand, the same is (almost) possible with Windows 10 with extra efforts. Quote Link to post Share on other sites
OGDA 71 Posted February 23 Report Share Posted February 23 Has anyone managed to get Dark Radiant working with dark colors in Windows 10? Specifically for the windows which have more bright space, like layers, light properties, surface/patch inspector, etc.? Previously TDM was reducing the desktop brightness when running, which was great for mapping, but now that this is gone, the windows really overshine the dark TDM running on the second monitor. A dark mode would be really nice. Quote FM: A Night Of Loot: One Man's Treasure Mapping: OGDA's Mapping Thread New Paintings for TDM: New Paintings Thread Link to post Share on other sites
Goldwell 2499 Posted February 24 Author Report Share Posted February 24 10 hours ago, OGDA said: A dark mode would be really nice. You are preaching to the converted here! But sadly I don't think it's possible. Quote Shadows of Northdale Campaign ACT I: A Curious Mind | ACT II: Down The Rabbit Hole Stand Alone Missions Snowed Inn | Accountant 1: Thieves and Heirs | Accountant 2: New In town | Spring Cleaning | Lord Edgar's Bathhouse Link to post Share on other sites
Bienie 439 Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 I sometimes use a program called "dimmer", that helps take the edge off, but a fully realized dark mode would be the best I agree! Quote My Fan Missions: Series: Standalone: Chronicles of Skulduggery 1: Pearls and Swine The Night of Reluctant Benefaction Chronicles of Skulduggery 2: A Precarious Position Langhorne Lodge Chronicles of Skulduggery 3: Sacricide Link to post Share on other sites
OGDA 71 Posted February 24 Report Share Posted February 24 (edited) I've made a temporary solution for Windows 10. After applying everything dark radiant looks like this: Here are the steps: 1. In dark radiant in the menu "View" > "Colours" select "Black & Green" 2. Create a default_colors.reg file by just creating a text file and renaming it and insert the following into the file: (you can also export the reg file of your system by going to the address HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors in regedit and export for safety reasons) File: https://das-kartell.org/files/darkradiantdarkmode/default_colors.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="240 240 240" "ButtonHilight"="255 255 255" "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="160 160 160" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="109 109 109" "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="255 255 255" "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="0 0 0" "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "AccentColorInactive"=- 3. Create a dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg file with following content: File: https://das-kartell.org/files/darkradiantdarkmode/dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="40 40 40" "ButtonHilight"="20 20 20" "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="240 240 240" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="240 240 240" "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="76 76 76" "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="210 210 210" "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "AccentColorInactive"=dword:00303030 4. Here are the definitions of the entries, in case you want to alter the colors. Only the field which have description behind them seem to be relevant for the colors used in dark radiant. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="240 240 240" < background color of floating windows and main window controls - 40 40 40 "ButtonHilight"="255 255 255" < shadow color of text in floating windows like light properties/inspectors - 20 20 20 "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="160 160 160" < main color of text in floating windows like light properties/inspectors - 240 240 240 "ButtonText"="0 0 0" < color of a few button descriptions like "select set" or "property/value" - 240 240 240 "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="109 109 109" < color of a few values in input field in floating windows - 240 240 240 "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" < 1 pixel high line under menu in main window - 240 240 240 "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="255 255 255" < background color in a few selection frames in floating windows like "light texture" in light properties window - 76 76 76 "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="0 0 0" < text color of many text in input fields in floating windows - 210 210 210 "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" 5. Optional step only makes main frame title bar dark when selected: In windows right click on the desktop and select the option below! display settings (maybe adjust in english?) and in the following window scroll down, make a dark custom color and tick both of the lowest checkboxes for task bar and titles: 6. Edit: Titlebar color has been edited with [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] AccentColorInactive The value is not present by default, so to revert to the original, this one entry in the folder just can be deleted again. The encoding of the DWORD 32 bit value (here 00303030) is: 00BBGGRR BB = Blue (Hexadecimal) GG = Green (Hexadecimal) RR = Red (Hexadecimal) 7. To swap to dark colors, click on dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg and integrate it into the registry. Log off in Windows and log in again (no restart required). Dark radiant is now in "dark mode". To swap back to normal windows colors for all other programs, click default_colors.reg, integrate it into the registry and log out and log in again. Hope this helps a bit Edited February 26 by OGDA 3 Quote FM: A Night Of Loot: One Man's Treasure Mapping: OGDA's Mapping Thread New Paintings for TDM: New Paintings Thread Link to post Share on other sites
Goldwell 2499 Posted February 26 Author Report Share Posted February 26 On 2/25/2021 at 9:01 AM, OGDA said: I've made a temporary solution for Windows 10. After applying everything dark radiant looks like this: Here are the steps: 1. In dark radiant in the menu "View" > "Colours" select "Black & Green" 2. Create a default_colors.reg file by just creating a text file and renaming it and insert the following into the file: (you can also export the reg file of your system by going to the address HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors in regedit and export for safety reasons) File: https://das-kartell.org/files/darkradiantdarkmode/default_colors.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="240 240 240" "ButtonHilight"="255 255 255" "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="160 160 160" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="109 109 109" "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="255 255 255" "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="0 0 0" "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" 3. Create a dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg file with following content: File: https://das-kartell.org/files/darkradiantdarkmode/dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="40 40 40" "ButtonHilight"="20 20 20" "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="240 240 240" "ButtonText"="0 0 0" "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="240 240 240" "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="76 76 76" "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="210 210 210" "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" 4. Here are the definitions of the entries, in case you want to alter the colors. Only the field which have description behind them seem to be relevant for the colors used in dark radiant. Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Control Panel\Colors] "ActiveBorder"="180 180 180" "ActiveTitle"="153 180 209" "AppWorkspace"="171 171 171" "Background"="0 0 0" "ButtonAlternateFace"="0 0 0" "ButtonDkShadow"="105 105 105" "ButtonFace"="240 240 240" < background color of floating windows and main window controls - 40 40 40 "ButtonHilight"="255 255 255" < shadow color of text in floating windows like light properties/inspectors - 20 20 20 "ButtonLight"="227 227 227" "ButtonShadow"="160 160 160" < main color of text in floating windows like light properties/inspectors - 240 240 240 "ButtonText"="0 0 0" < color of a few button descriptions like "select set" or "property/value" - 240 240 240 "GradientActiveTitle"="185 209 234" "GradientInactiveTitle"="215 228 242" "GrayText"="109 109 109" < color of a few values in input field in floating windows - 240 240 240 "HilightText"="255 255 255" "HotTrackingColor"="0 102 204" "InactiveBorder"="244 247 252" "InactiveTitle"="191 205 219" "InactiveTitleText"="0 0 0" "InfoText"="0 0 0" "InfoWindow"="255 255 225" "Menu"="240 240 240" < 1 pixel high line under menu in main window - 240 240 240 "MenuBar"="240 240 240" "MenuText"="0 0 0" "Scrollbar"="200 200 200" "TitleText"="0 0 0" "Window"="255 255 255" < background color in a few selection frames in floating windows like "light texture" in light properties window - 76 76 76 "WindowFrame"="100 100 100" "WindowText"="0 0 0" < text color of many text in input fields in floating windows - 210 210 210 "Hilight"="0 120 215" "MenuHilight"="0 120 215" 5. Optional step only makes main frame title bar dark when selected: In windows right click on the desktop and select the option below! display settings (maybe adjust in english?) and in the following window scroll down, make a dark custom color and tick both of the lowest checkboxes for task bar and titles: 6. To swap to dark colors, click on dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg and integrate it into the registry. Log off in Windows and log in again (no restart required). Dark radiant is now in "dark mode". To swap back to normal windows colors for all other programs, click default_colors.reg, integrate it into the registry and log out and log in again. Hope this helps a bit That is huge, thank you! There is one issue i'm having though inside the entity viewer, there are big white boxes in there despite the rest of the window being darker grey. Any idea on how to make that whiteness darker like the rest? 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OGDA 71 Posted February 26 Report Share Posted February 26 (edited) Unfortunately this cannot be changed with these windows registry values. I guess it's somehow hardcoded in the framework dark radiant uses. ------------- But I've found another registry value to make inactive title bars dark, which means that the inactive floating title bars will also be dark: Windows Registry Editor Version 5.00 [HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Windows\DWM] "AccentColorInactive"=dword:00303030 The value is not present by default, so to revert to the original, this one entry in the folder just can be deleted again. The encoding of the DWORD 32 bit value (here 00303030) is: 00BBGGRR BB = Blue (Hexadecimal) GG = Green (Hexadecimal) RR = Red (Hexadecimal) I've added this option (for dark_radiant_dark_mode.reg) and its removal (for default_colors.reg) into the reg-Files in the earlier post. Edited February 26 by OGDA 1 Quote FM: A Night Of Loot: One Man's Treasure Mapping: OGDA's Mapping Thread New Paintings for TDM: New Paintings Thread Link to post Share on other sites
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