[Map editing]tiles.bmp colours

[Stahl-Opa]

Hi guys

Hope someone can help me.

The tiles.bmp has a very specific colour palette - basically only greyish/blueish/greenish colours. Of course thats totally okay for displaying the rivers.
BUT I want to show other special terrain, eg. impassable province borders. Eg. I want to make them as dark-red lines between provinces. I've added a dark-red colour to the tiles.bmp's colour palette, so that the lines are shown correctly inside the file.

Neverthless, ingame, even with the tiles.bmp with modified colours, the lines are shown yellow (why exactly yellow?!).

Is there any way to change this? to add more colours for the tiles.bmp? Is it necesarry to edit other files then just the tiles.bmp?

Thanks for your answers!

 

[novapaddy]

Hi guys

Hope someone can help me.

The tiles.bmp has a very specific colour palette - basically only greyish/blueish/greenish colours. Of course thats totally okay for displaying the rivers.
BUT I want to show other special terrain, eg. impassable province borders. Eg. I want to make them as dark-red lines between provinces. I've added a dark-red colour to the tiles.bmp's colour palette, so that the lines are shown correctly inside the file.

Neverthless, ingame, even with the tiles.bmp with modified colours, the lines are shown yellow (why exactly yellow?!).

Is there any way to change this? to add more colours for the tiles.bmp? Is it necesarry to edit other files then just the tiles.bmp?

Thanks for your answers!

The colourscales.csv file in the map folder controls the map colours, and borders etc. There is a separate setting in this file for borders and sea etc. You might find what you are looking for here?

The country.csv file in the db folder controls the country colours.

 

[Stahl-Opa]

yep, looked already inside. But it Looks like there are only Information for border & Terrain & politics inside. Tiles (rivers) are not inside this file. Or I didn't found it

 

[Eginhard 38]

I don't know the solution to your problem, but it might be a clue for some the issues with the EiF map - which tiles file also uses unorthodox colors for impassable borders and offmap boxes borders.

 

[Stahl-Opa]

EiF map?

 

[Eginhard 38]

Sorry. Europe in Flames, the map developed for the WiF3 mod.

 

[novapaddy]

Hi guys

Hope someone can help me.

The tiles.bmp has a very specific colour palette - basically only greyish/blueish/greenish colours. Of course thats totally okay for displaying the rivers.
BUT I want to show other special terrain, eg. impassable province borders. Eg. I want to make them as dark-red lines between provinces. I've added a dark-red colour to the tiles.bmp's colour palette, so that the lines are shown correctly inside the file.

Neverthless, ingame, even with the tiles.bmp with modified colours, the lines are shown yellow (why exactly yellow?!).

Is there any way to change this? to add more colours for the tiles.bmp? Is it necesarry to edit other files then just the tiles.bmp?

Thanks for your answers!

The image palette shows only those colours that are in the image. I have opened up tiles.bmp and I see the foreground colour (top left), then the background colour (immediately to the right of the foreground colour pixel) and I see the yellow pixel in the bottom right corner.

Surely if you replace the yellow pixel with a blue one, you should get blue instead of yellow?

 

[Stahl-Opa]

Sorry. Europe in Flames, the map developed for the WiF3 mod.

hm, seems I have to contact the WiF Team then. If they made it, I think I can make it too

The image palette shows only those colours that are in the image. I have opened up tiles.bmp and I see the foreground colour (top left), then the background colour (immediately to the right of the foreground colour pixel) and I see the yellow pixel in the bottom right corner.

Surely if you replace the yellow pixel with a blue one, you should get blue instead of yellow?

This works in photoshop. If I Change the Palette, the Colour of the file is changed too. But ingame - even with a file with different Colour Palette & Colour infile - there is Always yellow (tried to Change yellow to red)

 

[novapaddy]

hm, seems I have to contact the WiF Team then. If they made it, I think I can make it too

This works in photoshop. If I Change the Palette, the Colour of the file is changed too. But ingame - even with a file with different Colour Palette & Colour infile - there is Always yellow (tried to Change yellow to red)

Just checking, but that tiles.bmp image is 8 BIT, not 24-bit.

 

[Eginhard 38]

hm, seems I have to contact the WiF Team then. If they made it, I think I can make it too

The problem is that we did not, as of now.

 

[Stahl-Opa]

haha lol sure ^.^
sorry, i'm kind of slow these days.

 

[Stahl-Opa]

I'm pretty sure it will need some changes in the source code to achieve this.
seems that HoI only can read the predefined colours.

Maybe @MartinBG has more info about?

 

[fabfeingold]

Yes that would appear to be the case at least in part. I modified the look of the rivers using more than two colors and that seems to work. I tried copying the colorscales to the tiles (my photoshop map files are in color). That came out as a massive blur.