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Regarding the following change in 1.06.00:

- HQ highlights for assist and manual modes will now show green for attached, red for attached to another HQ, and blue for unattached for all applicable units that are within the attachable range (ArtDen, budd).

My bad partly colour blind eyes have a very hard time seeing the red highlights for attached to another HQ. Particularly in hexes that are dark to begin with because of the terrain type like wooded or mountainous.

I'm sure the red could be changed to maybe something like a bright orange which I think I would be able to see better. My problem is that I am clueless as to how to do this.
I also have a very hard time seeing the land looping hexes in the Eastern and Western US because I recently (and just barely) realized they too are highlighted with the same red...
Up until then, I never new that the loops consisted of two hexes and therefore ended sending units back and forth by mistake thinking there was only one hex per loop entry point.

If there are any modders reading this who could give me the basics as to how to change the red into a bright orange, I would appreciate it.

Thanks,

C

P.S.,

I will also post this in the mods section.

OK, I found these two PNG files which are the ones that probably can be edited to change the colour:

tile_highlight_sprites and tile_highlight_sprites_zoom

I can open the files in paint but what do I do now? [&:] [:(]

I have a basic understanding of how to use paint, but I'm not sure which tile to edit:


I believe there is also the issue of transparency? that needs to be maintained?

C

I haven't edited that set but I did edit the ones for WiE. I picked the one I thought was it and changed it, if I was wrong I undid the change and tried another. If you leave the file opened in Paint you can undo changes by hitting Alt+Z. I would guess that the Red Hatched hex near the upper right would be the one you want to change, but I am not certain.

You can easily work on one graphic by hitting 'S' and then drawing a line around the target and Copy it, then Open that as a New File [Ctrl+N]. Then after editing it, Copy it and Paste it back over the original graphic.

Many thanks sPzAbt653. [:)]

Cheers,

C