Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM
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My complaint with dark blue/purple is not so much that they're close together (although I can see how that would be a problem) but rather that there's unsufficient contrast to quickly identify what a given unit type is. The unit type icon needs to use white lines instead of black for dark colors.
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Woah I didn't know about the right-clicking on the team colors button. I probably won't use it, but it's really cool that it's there for those that may need it!
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@endranii You are misinterpreting. I can tell my units apart from my ally's, what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks... at least it takes a lot longer than it should.
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@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:
what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks.
Hang on, it's the enemy that's dark red, yes? Your artillery and tanks should both be blue.
I'm also failing to understand this, I think. -
No, in the snip, my color is dark red. Also, it would still be a problem if my ally or my enemy was dark red for the same reason that it's hard to distinguish land units from other land units.
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@funkoff AH! I used ctrl+e to put team colours on...
That way, I'm blue, allies are light or dark green, and enemies are light or dark red. -
@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:
@endranii You are misinterpreting. I can tell my units apart from my ally's, what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks... at least it takes a lot longer than it should.
Oh, that makes way more sense. And while I don't have that problem while playing at over 10% of my screens brightness I do struggle a tad bit when it's all the way down. So it seems to be mostly contrast issue for some screens or brightness levels.
So yeah, now I fully get what you mean. Imo, instead of just removing the colour it might be better to maybe introduce a second set of "outlines" and "inlines" for the darker colours. So that instead of the black on dark colours we get something more visible for them.
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I'm not entirely sure how the icons are rendered, is it possible that the lines could be made white for some darker colors? Or is that hardcoded/part of the engine?
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The game uses the same set of icons regardless of color. There is no functionality to provide a second set for dark colors, so sadly this is not possible
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There various mods with custom icons if you are having difficult distinguishing units
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@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:
@endranii You are misinterpreting.
That's a funny way of saying "I didn't explain my problem clearly in my post, sorry."
Generally agree though, as well as with some of the other comments about similar colours.
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You can use mode/redact some game files to change color. Have no idea how to do that, but that's definitely possible
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That's a funny way of saying
Let's not choose violence. His suggestion that a lighter color be used made it unambiguous in the way he intended. An assumption was made in the replies that everybody else wrongly got on board with.
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@slicknixon Indeed. Whether or not I am the dark red color player in the original screenshot is irrelevant, the dark red color is still terrible and should not be used.