Colors - Making the UK visible

[jchastain]

I like playing with the UK distinguishable from the US, but the default color is too light for my taste and blends in with the neutrals. To "fix" this, I stole China's color scheme and gave it to the UK instead - much better! And I made China a nice medium blue (which matches their flag and stands out well). All in all, I like these colors much better. However, the unit bases are not generated based on color settings - they are included in the image files. I really don't feel like editing all those individual units (and what a mess - now color mods are not truly compatible with enhanced graphics mods!). My HUGE preference would be for the base colors to be generated on the fly, but since I live in the real world I thought I'd ask if anyone is producing a full color mod that gives the UK a decent color scheme since I'm too lazy to mod the graphics files myself.

[PDiFolco]

Care to post your color settings please ? It looks interesting (even with unmatched bases..)
[:)]

[Marc von Martial]

Consult: tm.asp?m=832260

for in depth instructions.

[PDiFolco]

Marc, I know the procedure, I would just like to know the "Chinese Blue" color value and spare some time modifying the files [:'(]

[jchastain]

I didn't put a lot of deep thought and effort into it, but what I am using is...

Within C:\Matrix Games\Gary Grigsby's World At War\dat\art.txt (at the bottom of the file):

PLAYER_COLOR,0,ffffffff,ffffffff
PLAYER_COLOR,GER,ff979797,ffacacac
PLAYER_COLOR,JAP,ffCE4424,ffc0573f
PLAYER_COLOR,SOV,ffCE7E38,ffD89860
PLAYER_COLOR,UN,ff8F9F37,ffA5B25F,0
PLAYER_COLOR,UN,ffecc04b,ffefc866,1
PLAYER_COLOR,CHI,ff6767ec,ff9393ef
PLAYER_COLOR,NEU,fffbf4cd,fffbf4cd

If you'd prefer to just download my file (the color mod is the only thing I have changed) just right click and save (using Save Target As) the file referenced HERE.

[Marc von Martial]

ORIGINAL: PDiFolco

Marc, I know the procedure, I would just like to know the "Chinese Blue" color value and spare some time modifying the files [:'(]

I was not talking to you specifically [;)] I was bumping this as a reminder.

[jchastain]

Out of curiosity, any thoughts on the color swap with the addition of blue?

It seems to work fine for me, but has anyone found any better options for making the UK more visible?

[VI66_slith]

I found a great color for the U.S./UK, the color resembles the standard American counter set found in ASL:

B9CE47

or, you can copy & paste the entire line below into the usual place as described above;

PLAYER_COLOR,UN,ffB9CE47,ffA5B25F,0


Here is a quick and dirty RGB color code chart;

RGB CHART

[5cats]

Aaaa! Green! Really GReen! lol!
It's quite bright, and really shows the units well so it's good.
And thanks for the link to the colour codes too, VI66
Now to find that perfect shade of grey...