Hi Shazbot, you can change the viewport background color as Marco shows above. There is not currently any bundled up way to switch background colors for UI elements like buttons. It is possible to change the UI, but doing so currently involves editing the HTML that defines the UI inside of the \ui folder, it's not that easy to do right now unless you're familiar with editing HTML already.

In the future I want to add some options for defining UI themes and switching between a few prepackaged ones, but right now working on new modeling tools has taken priority over that.

- Michael

Thanks for the reply! Yes I'm pretty familiar with html so I think I might try that. (:

Hi Shazbot, which version of MoI are you using? There has been a pretty big change in how the UI is "skinned" between v2 and v3.

In v2 it's mostly based on images with things like buttons having a PNG file for them which is split into 9 different sub zones which then get stretched. So for v2 and v1 you need to edit image files to change the appearance.

For v3 it instead uses CSS with border-radius and webkit gradient fills and nearly all the UI elements are drawn dynamically from that CSS. So for v3 you generally don't need to edit any images and instead can edit moi.css which you'll find in the \ui subfolder. There are still a couple of remaining image based things though, like the border for flyout menus.

Eventually I will be getting rid of those few remaining images and also I eventually want to add in a type of preprocessor that will be able to put sort of "id tags" in the moi.css file for colors and have the colors themselves be defined in a separate file from that, and that should then make it easy to edit just one single colors file to make new skins. But work in this area has been postponed until later in favor of working on things like modeling tools instead for now.

But anyway if you're familiar with HTML you can go in to moi.css inside the \ui subfolder and edit things like background-color attributes to change most things in v3.

- Michael

v2

Hi Shazbot so for v2 you'll mostly need to edit image files for controls like pushbuttons and just some background colors are in moi.css

Here are a couple of previous discussion threads on that which may be of use:
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1521.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=1173.1
http://moi3d.com/forum/index.php?webtag=MOI&msg=844.2

- Michael

Thankyou very much Michael! (: