Has anyone found if it is possible to change the color of a mood/emotion, as in the one that appears behind the corner portrait, and in the moodlets. All the color values in the mood xml seem to be to do with coloring ghosts, according to the tdesc.

I figured it out! Kinda.

It's the 'portrait_frames' entry in the mood's XML that determines the background color of moodlets and the portraits. According to the tdesc,


So, I can swap things around to use colors originally set to other emotions. But unless I can find and edit the UI file the tdesc references, I can't edit the colors to new values. Does anyone know anything about what UI file it might mean, and if it's something we can override?

Tutorial please? I want to make a mod that swaps the colors of Happy and Embarrassed, because yellow is commonly associated with happiness and Embarrassed works with green aswell. I'm new to modding so I'd really appreciate some help.

Not to necro a thread, but I, too, would like this tutorial, as some of the colors I feel are too close to each other to tell at an easy glance what they are. (For instance, Playful/Flirty, Bored/Fine, and Energized/Happy)

The mood colors (RGBA) including the color of ghosts are found in the following XML tuning resources,

S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003928_Mood_Angry.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003929_Mood_Bored.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392A_Mood_Confident.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392B_Mood_Embarrassed.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392C_Mood_Energized.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392D_Mood_Fine.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392E_Mood_Flirty.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000000392F_Mood_Focused.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003930_Mood_Happy.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003931_Mood_Inspired.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003932_Mood_Playful.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003933_Mood_Sad.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003934_Mood_Dazed.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003935_Mood_Stressed.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000003936_Mood_Uncomfortable.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_0000000000006A0D_Mood_Asleep.xml
S4_BA7B60B8_00000000_000000000003D747_Mood_Scared.xml

That's a good start, not sure how to go about making the overrides, as someone who hasn't done a tuning mod for TS4.

First you extract the tuning using the XML Extractor by scumbumbo for example, navigate to the BG/mood folder and you will see the files I listed, you can edit the files with a text editor like Notepad++, the files can be imported directly into a new package using s4pe.

Oh, brilliant! I'm going to have to poke around with that! Thanks!

EDIT: I can't seem to change the color values at all. Changing the base_color, edge_color, and mood_colors values doesn't seem to make any difference.