Can you alter the 9 default colors in the army symbol screen?

[DaleDVM]

I've searched the forums and found a couple of old threads but no answers to this question.

I know this is possible, because my default colors changed with one of the mods I am running.

I would like to set my 9 default colors to choose from so I am not constantly having to play with the sliders. Can this be done in game, or does this require modding?

Thanks for any help.

 

[Harin]

Oh, please, someone have the answer to this. I am so tired of the default colors.

 

[blahmaster6k]

The only in-game way to get custom colors for your armies is to use the color sliders. It only takes a couple seconds to mess with though, so I don't really see the problem.

 

[bitmode]

I've searched the forums and found a couple of old threads but no answers to this question.

I know this is possible, because my default colors changed with one of the mods I am running.

I would like to set my 9 default colors to choose from so I am not constantly having to play with the sliders. Can this be done in game, or does this require modding?

Thanks for any help.

They are called COMMANDGROUP_PRESET_COLORS_HSV in common/defines/00_graphics.lua:898

 

[DaleDVM]

Thank you bitmode!

 

[Kryndude]

COMMANDGROUP_PRESET_COLORS_HSV = {
90.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
60.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
30.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
00.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
330.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
300.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
270.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
240.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
210.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86,
180.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.86
},

How do I change the colors from here? Was expecting RGB values but I have no idea what those mean.

 

[Simon_9732495]

How do I change the colors from here? Was expecting RGB values but I have no idea what those mean.

HSV = hue, saturation, value

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/HSL_and_HSV

HSL and HSV are both cylindrical geometries (fig. 2), with hue, their angular dimension, starting at the red primary at 0°, passing through the green primary at 120° and the blue primary at 240°, and then wrapping back to red at 360°. In each geometry, the central vertical axis comprises the neutral, achromatic, or gray colors ranging, from top to bottom, white at lightness 1 (value 1) to black at lightness 0 (value 0).

red (ff0000) should be 0 ,1 ,1
half green (008000 ) should be 120/360, 1, 0.5
white: x,0,1, e.g. 0,0,1
black: x,x,0, e.g. 0,0,0

I think if you select colors in Microsoft Paint, you can also see this numbers.

 

[Kryndude]

You can test different HSV values here.

edit: Been tinkering with this for hours now and still can't come up with a satisfactory color combination. Any recommendations perhaps?

 

[Kryndude]

Okay, I'm finally settling with this

COMMANDGROUP_PRESET_COLORS_HSV = {
00.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.89,
30.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.90,
60.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.89,
110.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.87,
120.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.44,
180.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.95,
230.0/360.0, 0.95, 0.98,
273.0/360.0, 1.00, 0.99,
00.0/360.0, 0.00, 0.45,
00.0/360.0, 0.00, 1.00
},

But problem is, the game still uses default colors for creating new armies, even though the color boxes show my new colors. I have to manually click on the boxes to change armies to my preset colors.

 

[Harin]

Thanks @bitmode for the answer and @kryndal for finding a tool to help us choose colors.

 

[Simon_9732495]

What tilts me is that the default color palette from which I can choose, does not contain the colors the game chooses for new created Armys.

You removed all Soldiers from an Army? Never gonna get that color again... (unless you create 10 new armies until the color shows up again)

 

[Harin]

What tilts me is that the default color palette from which I can choose, does not contain the colors the game chooses for new created Armys.

You removed all Soldiers from an Army? Never gonna get that color again... (unless you create 10 new armies until the color shows up again)

That gets me, too. Sometimes the game chooses a color that is just right. It looks like it belongs with the other colors on the map, is distinct without taking over, but I cannot recreate it.

 

[bitmode]

But problem is, the game still uses the default colors when creating new armies, even though the color boxes show my new colors. I have to manually click on the boxes to change armies to my preset colors.

Those are indeed other colors. They are defined in gfx/maparrows/maparrows.txt.

I once reported a bug about the same colors being reused after reloading, which is how I discovered these different definitions.

 

[Harin]

Those are indeed other colors. They are defined in gfx/maparrows/maparrows.txt.

I once reported a bug about the same colors being reused after reloading, which is how I discovered these different definitions.

@bitmode to the rescue again! Thanks!

 

[Kryndude]

Took a look and it seems I'll have to play the game as is and manually change the pink variants that pop up once in a while.

 

[DaleDVM]

As long as I can set some good colors to apply in my 9 slots, I am OK with it. Trying to recreate colors with the sliders over and over was absolutely killing me. On my 4k monitor the entire color panel is pretty small.

Thanks to everyone for helping the community out with this one!