Let's post some pics of changes we've made and what we used, might help give each other ideas...

Here's mine:

That's awesome, love the comic font.

I was feeling creative today...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Sjd96j_aA6E

lemonhead, where are the colors for the map/street names?? must know!

btw i love your signature lmao

lemonhead, where are the colors for the map/street names?? must know!

 

btw i love your signature lmao

I have no idea man...sorry. And I was wondering if anyone would get the quote in my sig

It's from Major League. The Cuban baseball player who goes on to become President Palmer.

Some more playing around... I changed the title text on the navigation main menu. In data.zip\ui_pioneer\common\ui\start.ui search for "Destination Menu", its in there four times, and change it to whatever you want. To change the title font, look in data.zip\ui_pioneer\800_480\general_800_480.ui for the title layer elements, it's tahomabd originally.

On the map screen, I figured out how to remove the map zoom/scale thing finally! In data.zip\ui_pioneer\common\ui there are a few ui files to edit. navigate.ui and start.ui and possibly others... you'll have to search. You are looking for "map.ZOOMCONTROL_SHOW 1" and you want to change it to "map.ZOOMCONTROL_SHOW 0". Search well, it's in there numerous times in several files and you want to catch them all, to make it go away forever. Otherwise you'll go from one screen to another and pow it'll be back.

Last tidbit - there are a lot of data fields available to us, the challenge is figuring out the variable names. Here are a few I know (they can be found by scouring all the &*(*&( .ui files in the common and the 800_480 directories):

Speed numbers: navigation.current_speed.numbers_text

Speed units: navigation.current_speed.units_text

Altitude numbers and units: navigation.current_altitude.full_text

I would love to find the variable to get the current heading, in degrees.

Cheers!

Stephanie,

What font are you using there and where can I get it???

Thanks

Stephanie,

 

What font are you using there and where can I get it???

 

Thanks

The font I'm using for the clock and speed display, and also the title on the top menu page is called Final Frontier Old.

The font I'm using for the street names (current street and next turn street) is Final Frontier New.

And the font I used in the top left corner of the map for my 'Stephanie wuz Here' is called Space Age.

I got them all from a font site linked to on the other thread.. I think it was onlythebest.net/fonts

-Cheers

Thanks for the tip on removing the zoom level Stephanie, it worked and hasn't come back so far although I only changed it in a couple files.

I'd like to remove the time boxes but I like having them when I plot a route...

I also found another good font site...this one is cool because you can preview whatever street you want if you plug it in and see what it will look like.

http://www.dafont.com/

lemonhead, where are the colors for the map/street names?? must know!

 

btw i love your signature lmao

I posted this in another thread...

Changing map colors is pretty simple. Go into the igo folder->content->schemes and grab one of the .zip files unzip it or explore it. (I did it by unzipping then rezipping it in OSX 10.5 just fine) Edit the files called color.ini and color3D.ini. All of the colors are in RGB values.

 

If you want an explanation of what some of the lines change go here http://www.navguide.net/igomiofan/color ... or-scheme/

 

 

Also when you edit the files make sure you change the name and specify if the map is day or night. The website above shows how to do this.

Already made one to match my VW.

Here's the one I think I'll use for awhile.

I've been working a bit more to make a bit of a sci-fi theme overall. Still limited primarily to the map screen, I'm too lazy to do the rest of the screens (and considering how rarely the settings etc need to be changed, it seems hardly worth the effort.)

Anyhow, here's the gist of it:

* Red arrow changed to a BSG Raptor as per this thread

* Blue boxes removed as per this thread and this one

* Fonts and colours changed, also as per this thread

* Custom information added, i.e. speed and altitude readouts, as per the thread mentioned above.

* Custom buttons designed & added

The top-right corner has the clock. The clock is also a button which will toggle all text readouts between light and dark. This isn't necessary though as I have scripted the text to change automatically with the map (night/day modes).

Below the clock is a button/icon which tells the GPS status - Blue for good 3d fix, amber for fair 2d fix, red for no fix, and 'GPS Error' text for no signals at all. Touching this button goes to the GPS Status page in the Navi Settings.

Below that is a custom button for the regular "Map Confirmation Screen"

Below that is a button for "Delete Route" which of course only appears when a route is enabled.

The top left has my bit of 'graffiti'. Below that appears the normal direction arrows, distance, and next street name, assuming navigation is active.

The lower left has my altimiter and speed. Touching this area brings up the Lat & Long reading in the lower centre of the screen. Touching the Lat/Long makes them disappear again.

The very lower left, I have replaced that icon of an arrow ontop of a bit of roadway, with the logo from BSG.

The only thing on my "wanted" list that I have not yet achieved, is a readout of heading in degrees. I have yet to find any variable or script that can give me that readout.

Very nice Stephanie!!! Any chance you can post your current data.zip so we cal all pick it apart? In particular I am curious how you handle the Lat/Long touch.

Sure. You can download my latest/current data.zip file here.

Briefly, anything you want to make clickable, add into the element

onrelease='run scriptNameHere'

and any element that you want to control through scripting, you have to assign an unique ID (so something other than xxx).

So for the latlong thing, I've got the speedo element containing

onrelease='run sc_steph_showPos'

then in the latlong is

onrelease='run sc_steph_hidePos'

The scripts themselves I have put in scripts_800_480.ui down at the very bottom. I have five of them there, showPos and hidePos, then three that handle changing the text colours for day/night.

In my navigatemap_800_480.ui you will see everything I use is in the very first layer element. Everything below that is hidden, suppressed, or otherwise nullified so it can't appear on my map screen.

The only thing not in the data.zip are the fonts I'm using, which are FinalOld.ttf, FinalNew.ttf, and SpaceAge.ttf. I had to use tahoma for the lat/long though as my other three don't have the degrees symbol.

Cheers!

For those that have asked me for my current data.zip file... here it is.

I have replaced the standard tahoma and tahomabd font with Comic Sans MS and I have added the star trek fonts finalnew and finalold. I have included all the fonts I used in my zip file.

Unzip the zip file to your SD card and copy all of the included files to your My Flash Disk\APL2\iGo folder on your nav and you should be set to go.

What have I changed?

• Clock has been made larger and brighter.
  Blue boxes are only present when navigating.
  When not navigating current speed and altitude appear in the upper left hand corner.
  When not navigating the box with three lines of nav data have been removed.
  The zoom bar has been removed.
  Tapping on the street icon in the lower left hand corner brings up the current Latitude/Longitude Coordinates. Tapping on the Lat/Long txt removes it.
  Tapping on the current street name on the lower left brings you to the destination menu.
  When navigating a red button has been added to stop navigating.
  When navigating the box with three lines of nav data appear but the nav data is NOT linked to the data fields set within the settings menu.
  The first nav data line shows the distance to destination.
  The second nav data line shows the time to destination. Tapping on that text will change it to ETA to destination. Tapping on that text again will revert it back to time to destination.
  The third nav data line shows your current speed.
  When navigating the current altitude is displayed over the box with three lines of nav data.
  

Thanks to Stephanie and skicrave and everyone else on this forum that has made this work possible!!!

Below are some pictures I took earlier today... sorry about the quality... I only had my cell phone on me.

Thanks for the file but I cant get it to take. I get a error message on the splash screen "File not found" Then it stops loading

Thank you all for composing this very good data.zip file. I've put it on my european version of the F900BT and it works brilliant!

I even got the impression that it's a bit quicker when navigating trough the menus and tabbing the touchscreen...

Thanks for the file but I cant get it to take. I get a error message on the splash screen "File not found" Then it stops loading

did you copy those ttf files in the correct directories?

My Bad. I did not even think of unzipping your file. I just renamed the zip and stuck it in. What a dork.

I will try again thanks

I just installed your data.zip file, Vorian - very nice job! This is exactly the look and functions I wanted! Like I said in another post, thanks to all the great development work done by you; Stephanie; skicrave and others on this forum, I can't imagine what Pioneer could release in a second update to the F-series units that would cooerce me to install it unless they can reduce the boot time by about 85%.

Congrats to all who figured out these enhancements - great work!

To Vorian:::::Does this also Works Good in the 2D Mode?

To Vorian:::::Does this also Works Good in the 2D Mode?

Vorian's file works great in both 2D and 3D mode.

Ok, I think I'm finished with my 'Sci Fi' theme/skin.

I never did solve the 'heading' thing to get it to display degrees, so I settled for a N/E/S/W readout instead.

A detailed list of the changes are as follows:

- Map Screen -

* 2d mode car icon is a BSG Raptor.

* 3d mode car icon is a BSG Raptor.

* 'callsign' and name in top left corner.

* large clock in top right corner.

* Buttons along right-hand side are:

= Sattelite Signal Strength - sattelite image with coloured bar. Blue - high accuracy 3d fix; Amber - low accuracy 2d fix; Red - no fix; text 'GPS Error' - GPS antenna problem. Click to go to GPS Status screen.

= Map Confirmation Button - top-view of BSG Raptor, click for map confirmation screen.

= 2D / 3D Mode - left & right side views of BSG Raptor, click to switch between 2d and 3d mode.

= Delete Route - front view of BSG Raptor, only appears during actve route, click to delete route / cancel navigation.

* Info in top-left corner of screen (only visible during active navigation):

- Distance to next manoever.

- name of next street.

- icon for next manoever.

- icon for second manoever.

- distanct to second manoever.

* Info box in lower-left corner of screen:

= Range - total distance to destination (only appears during active route/navigation).

= TOT - total time to reach destination (only appears during active route/navigation).

= Altitude - current altitude.

= Heading - current car heading (NESW).

= Velocity - current car speed.

* Absolute lower left corner of map:

= BSG Icon (click to go directly to Destination Favorites screen).

= Current Street Name.

* The Zoom bar is removed.

* The original 'info display' from the lower left corner is removed.

* The compass icon is removed.

* The infamous "blue boxes" have been removed.

* A 'dropout' shadow behind the 'callsign' and clock improve visibility.

* A 'dropout' shadow appears behind the next street name / next manoever icon / distance etc, only when navigating.

* A 'dropout' shadow behind the current street name replaces the blue bar down there.

Other Changes as follows:

* Settings/Demo mode is disabled.

* Settings/Visual/Displayed Info is removed as it is no longer used.

* Settings/GPS Status now includes Lat/Long coordinates.

* Navi Destination/Top menu has new title text ("Pilot...").

* Title text on all Navi menus in new font.

* Different Raptor icons are provided for day/night mode in both 2d and 3d views.

And now, some pictures! (Sorry about the quality - the dark 'night mode' map looks good in person but it's hard to get good pictures of.)

2d mode, no route selected:

2d mode, with route plotted:

3d mode, no route selected:

3d mode, with route plotted:

Closeup of info box in lower left corner (with route plotted):

GPS Status screen:

All the required files, and a readme.txt file with instructions and more information, are available here. Instructions include how to install, as well as information on how to customize some of the text (i.e. how to remove my name & put yours in.)

Cheers!

For those that have asked me for my current data.zip file... here it is.

 

I have replaced the standard tahoma and tahomabd font with Comic Sans MS and I have added the star trek fonts finalnew and finalold. I have included all the fonts I used in my zip file.

 

Unzip the zip file to your SD card and copy all of the included files to your My Flash Disk\APL2\iGo folder on your nav and you should be set to go.

 

What have I changed?

 

• Clock has been made larger and brighter.
  Blue boxes are only present when navigating.
  When not navigating current speed and altitude appear in the upper left hand corner.
  When not navigating the box with three lines of nav data have been removed.
  The zoom bar has been removed.
  Tapping on the street icon in the lower left hand corner brings up the current Latitude/Longitude Coordinates. Tapping on the Lat/Long txt removes it.
  Tapping on the current street name on the lower left brings you to the destination menu.
  When navigating a red button has been added to stop navigating.
  When navigating the box with three lines of nav data appear but the nav data is NOT linked to the data fields set within the settings menu.
  The first nav data line shows the distance to destination.
  The second nav data line shows the time to destination. Tapping on that text will change it to ETA to destination. Tapping on that text again will revert it back to time to destination.
  The third nav data line shows your current speed.
  When navigating the current altitude is displayed over the box with three lines of nav data.
  

 

Thanks to Stephanie and skicrave and everyone else on this forum that has made this work possible!!!

 

Below are some pictures I took earlier today... sorry about the quality... I only had my cell phone on me.

LOVE IT thanks