Byzantium color fix

[dorimi]

Hello,

i have been using this color in my mod, since i think its more historically accurate, and i want to propose Paradox to change this it in vanilla game. What do you guys, especially byzzy lovers, think?

Current : Paradox uses INACCURATE shade of purple. This is not Byzantine purple: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byzantium_(color)

Its the doing of some fashion dude in 1926, who just decided to name some frilly shade of purple "byzantium".

Proposed: This is the real Byzantine "purple" - Tyrian Purple : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyrian_purple

Its much darker and far more reddish. In fact, its often called "Tyrian Red" and belongs in the red spectrum.


INGAME:

Current - [video=youtube;j70h2SGzXyY]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j70h2SGzXyY&index=63&list=PL3Szag_056kaEtycdpiZ_Fs15f-12IKKI[/video]



Proposed - [video=youtube;o6zpL5DUtfs]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o6zpL5DUtfs&index=79&list=PL3Szag_056kYSIr3yqeMuGL88HJTtN_VK[/video]

Xaioxaiofan

 

[noahboy88]

That color looks so much more beast. Paradox, change it!

 

[iLoveApples]

They have more pressing concerns if you ask me.

 

[Saintrl]

This was extremely simple to mod in. Thank you good sir! My Byzantium playthrough is now that much more historically accurate.

Edit: It really feels like the devs just did a quick search for this lol. Unless secretly they thought Tyrian Purple was too ugly?!? (conspiracy!)

 

[aragonFTW]

Uhm....
I can't see any difference.
You want it to look more like Burgundy and less like Lithuania?

 

[Saintlukas]

do this paradox, give more reason to whip greek scum from the map

 

[Frederick III]

What is the code for that color, if we're interested in modding it?

 

[dorimi]

What is the code for that color, if we're interested in modding it?

102, 2, 60

 

[Xaioxaiofan]

They have more pressing concerns if you ask me.

Oh I know, paradox shouldn't waste their time changing....

color = { 149 45 102 }

in the ByzantineEmpire.txt

to..

color = { 102 2 60 }

 

[aitaituo]

Was a 20 minute video strictly necessary to highlight the difference?

 

[YouMust99]

Oh I know, paradox shouldn't waste their time changing....

color = { 149 45 102 }

in the ByzantineEmpire.txt

to..

color = { 102 2 60 }

As this takes so much time. :rofl:

 

[Casadoom]

Was a 20 minute video strictly necessary to highlight the difference?

You only needed 2 seconds of that video.

 

[Saintrl]

You only needed 2 seconds of that video.

Actually a screenshot would have sufficed.

 

[Xaioxaiofan]

Actually a screenshot would have sufficed.

Well, here's one. Red box is the suggested colour.

 

[iLoveApples]

Oh I know, paradox shouldn't waste their time changing....

color = { 149 45 102 }

in the ByzantineEmpire.txt

to..

color = { 102 2 60 }

Well I didn't know it was that easy.

 

[CzokletMuss]

+1
Everything to get rid of the current pinkish color.

 

[Mudcrab]

Yea, much nicer. *thumbsup*

The problem is more urgent in CKII, though, where the Byzzie day-glo purple would give your eyes cataphracts, in time.

Ha?

 

[CzokletMuss]

(..)day-glo purple would give your eyes cataphracts(..)

I see what you did there.

 

[aitaituo]

Yea, much nicer. *thumbsup*

The problem is more urgent in CKII, though, where the Byzzie day-glo purple would give your eyes cataphracts, in time.

Ha?

Reading that pun caused macular degeneration.

 

[aragonFTW]

I wish I could unsee that pun without dying from complications.