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Rasputitsa for your eyes.
Soviet colours redone.

This Mod changes the Soviet UI colours.
Buttons have not been touched (yet).

Latest Update 29.09.2024: (see Post 2)
- Added recolouring for more UI elements (Victory Popup, Game save/load view and so on).
- Added some minor UI Colour changes to increase contrasts in some areas.

before vs. after

Download: Google Drive
Intsall: .../Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2/Dat/

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Changed lines: 15-20, 34-35

Latest Update 29.09.2024:
- Added recolouring for more UI elements (Victory Popup, Game save/load view and so on).
- Added some minor UI Colour changes to increase contrasts in some areas.

Additional changed Lines in Config file: 31,32,66,67

I like the look of this. I will try it.

Thanks for the mod.

If anyone is wondering the file needs to be dropped into the Dat folder in your WITE 2 install folder.

I would advise you to make a back up copy of the default GuiColors.json file in case you want to revert to the original.

This is a nice mod and I prefer it to the default Soviet red.

Thanks again.

Thanks for your feedback.

IslandInland wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 6:35 pm If anyone is wondering the file needs to be dropped into the Dat folder in your WITE 2 install folder.

I changed the "Edited file" line to "Install", hope that makes it clearer where to put the file.

...and I fixed an orthography error in "Rasputitsa", although transforming cyrillic into latin letters usually results in 10 different spellings anyways.

Ya, I actually think I am going to try this one for my upcoming Soviet game starting next week. Staring at red for long hours kills my eyes and this looks to be easier on the eyes. Thank you much for this.

HardLuckYetAgain wrote: Fri Nov 11, 2022 9:16 pm Ya, I actually think I am going to try this one for my upcoming Soviet game starting next week. Staring at red for long hours kills my eyes and this looks to be easier on the eyes. Thank you much for this.

I hope it helps you, for me the red also didn't feel good looking at.
I'd appreciate some feedback wether it works for multiplayer games since I am not sure about that yet.

Wiedrock wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:42 pm Rasputitsa for your eyes.
Soviet colours redone.

This Mod changes the Soviet UI colours.
Buttons have not been touched (yet).

before vs. after

Download: Google Drive
Intsall: .../Gary Grigsby's War in the East 2/Dat/GuiColors.json

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Changed lines: 15-20, 34-35
Rasputitsa_comparison.jpg

wow this is great thank you for saving my eyes from strain

Thank you very much. A simple and great improvement over the default soviet UI color.

Thank you a lot for this mod. So much easier on my eyes. The color is perfect now.

Just installed this mod after complete re install to Ver 1.02.52 of the game and i agree with others that it certainly cuts down on the glare from the original font colours, thanks wiedrock for this little file that helps a lot!

IMO it's the only way to play the Soviets!

Thank you. Although playing the NAZIs at the moment, I also feel the USSR should come with epilepsy warning!

Just tried it. The Neurology Department of my local hospital thanks you!

Much Better!
Thanks...

Wiedrock wrote: Thu Nov 10, 2022 6:45 pm Latest Update 29.09.2024:
- Added recolouring for more UI elements (Victory Popup, Game save/load view and so on).
- Added some minor UI Colour changes to increase contrasts in some areas.

A new Update has been released. Preview can be found in Post 2 in this Thread.

Gotta run. Will checkout. Vielen Dank!

Herr Wiedrock,

Very nice, indeed!

Color coding missions. Nice!

Please don't think I am ungrateful, but I still think the capture dates could be improved; perhaps, with a lighter blue on black. As far as I know, I don't have any color perception problems ... just getting old.

I looked at your JSON, but it is not obvious which of the four lines correspond to capture dates, and what else might I be changing to see if I might tweak it a little. (probably the definition is overloaded, and would push something else in the wrong direction)

Thank you!

MarkShot wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:59 am Please don't think I am ungrateful, but I still think the capture dates could be improved; perhaps, with a lighter blue on black. As far as I know, I don't have any color perception problems ... just getting old.

For sure it is not perfect, I couldn't find the line/code which would change this blue to something different. If you have any idea, let me know.
The Background Colours used for this Dates are also being used in 1-2 other locations (e.g. Setting up ADs), so it is also no aternative to make them bright, since then you'd have bright background-bars and then further issues reading the bright colourized letters in all the other parts where this colours are the background.

MarkShot wrote: Mon Sep 30, 2024 7:59 am I looked at your JSON, but it is not obvious which of the four lines correspond to capture dates, and what else might I be changing to see if I might tweak it a little. (probably the definition is overloaded, and would push something else in the wrong direction)

the Background should be Line 32
"GC_AXIS_ROW_DARK": { "col": "0xff132406", "desc": "AXIS ROW DARK" },"

Thanks for explaining. Your changes really make a big difference.