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Chat Box Location?

Discussion in 'General Help' started by ReggieFilsAime, Feb 13, 2012.

  1. ReggieFilsAime

    ReggieFilsAime Bison Rider

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    Is there anyway to change the location of the Chat Box ingame? Its really bugged me being there at the top of the screen, especially since it often blocks the map.

    [edit - Trelawney] Nice to see the Nintendo COO of America taking KAG seriously, stickied cause it's a rather common question.
     
  2. feet

    feet Bison Rider

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    That annoys me a lot
     
  3. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    Yes.

    1.) Go to your KAG folder
    2.) Go to your Base folder
    3.) Go to your Scripts folder
    4.) Double Click on your config.gm file
    5.) Go to the line that says: global cc_valign = 0;
    6.) Change that line to: global cc_valign = 2;
    7.) Save the file
    8.) You're done.
     
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  4. feet

    feet Bison Rider

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    Where does that place the chat box?
     
  5. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    It places it at the bottom.

    If you put 1 instead of 2 or 0, it'll place it right in the middle, but I assume you don't want that.
     
  6. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    You sadly have to do this EVERY damn time you start up the game, there are a few things in autoconfig that do this and severely need to be fixed as it turns out you may have to run 2-3 different commands every single time you start up the game.

    Changing it in the file will often lead to the file just being overwritten with it back to 0 every time you start up KAG.

    If file changing as Rayne said doesn't work for you ,open the game, press HOME, type in /cc_valign 2
    Then press enter, then HOME again, press Enter twice (to open/close chat) and it'll be fixed, but this is only temporary until you restart the game.
     
  7. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    I don't, maybe your config file just sucks or something. :p

    (mine is always at the bottom)
     
  8. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Maybe it does, I've reinstalled 4 times and it still happens. :p
     
  9. Noburu

    Noburu Dirty, DRUNK, Hillbilly Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Yeah maybe something to do with your windows settings or something. Mine has never defaulted back to top except after patching.
     
  10. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    I must dig deeper to find the source of this problem, and reinstall many more times.
     
  11. feet

    feet Bison Rider

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    Config.gm doesnt open
     
  12. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    If it doesn't open by default, use a text editor (like notepad) and open the file through there.
     
  13. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    FYI it's autoconfig.gm you want not config.gm
     
  14. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    FYI, I only changed it in the config.gm and it works for me (because I listened to MM)

    configgm.png
     
  15. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    And thatttttttt probably explains my entire problem, why the hell was it moved to there if it's been in friggin' autoconfig.gm for literally ever :|
     
  16. Kouji

    Kouji Cold, Uncaring, Sadistic, Evil and Cruel Meanie Administrator Global Moderator Forum Moderator Tester
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    It's been there since build 265.
     
  17. Noburu

    Noburu Dirty, DRUNK, Hillbilly Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Wow derp Luigi the config master making such a noob mistake :D Yeah Luigi that would be your problem lol.
     
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  18. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Well why the hell would it be in 2 places, also I have another similar problem with other settings, show tutorial, chat box dimensions, color, some fonts
     
  19. FliesLikeABrick

    FliesLikeABrick THD Team THD Team Administrator Global Moderator

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    You need to have the game closed while you edit the file. If you have the game open, it will overwrite the config file when the game closes
     
  20. BlueLuigi

    BlueLuigi :^) Forum Moderator Donator Tester

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    Nah it was closed, problem was the wrong file. Despite the fact that autoconfig.gm is where this variable has always previously resided, for some reason they decided to put it in config.gm which sends a message every time it starts to overwrite whatever is in autoconfig.gm apparently, so what I was changing in autoconfig.gm was for naught. Changing it in config.gm however quickly removed that problem.

    I suppose the main problem was stuff not being consistent in where it belongs, if a variable was always in autoconfig.gm and that is where ALL of those types of variables always were, there is almost no reason to have moved it to config.gm. I do know the reason to have done it, but not telling people explicitly that this strange way was used to get people in older clients to have it overwrite without changing their entire autoconfig.gm file would have been in order then in this case.