Changing a Civ's Color?

[Marshall Thomas]

How do you change a civ's color? I'm playing as Assyria and I find their color a little too light and too similar to civs I happen to border.

Thanks in advance.

 

[AW Arcaeca]

The basics:

Civs colors are determined by five columns: <Type>, <Red>, <Green>, <Blue> and <Alpha>. Messing with Type isn't necessary as long as you aren't adding a new color. For Red, Green and Blue, you take the RGB values of your desired color and divide by 255 to get a decimal that you input.
Don't mess with Alpha unless you're looking to break something.

So! When you've figured out the new colors you want to use:

<GameData>
	<Colors>
		<Update>
			<!-- This is the darker of Assyria's two colors, the orangish one -->
			<Where Type="COLOR_PLAYER_ASSYRIA_ICON"/>
			<Set Red="0.000" Green="0.000" Blue="0.000"/>
		</Update>
		<Update>
			<!-- Assyria's creme-ish color -->
			<Where Type="COLOR_PLAYER_ASSYRIA_BACKGROUND"/>
			<Set Red="1.000" Green="1.000" Blue="1.000"/>
		</Update>
	</Colors>
</GameData>

This is a template; the way I've defined it here corresponds to a black symbol on a white background.

This also assumes you're making a mod to do this (set it to Affects Saved Games = 0, BTW), this won't work if you just want to edit a file.

 

[White Out]

I think its important to also change the icon in game too.

 

[averysillyman]

Something like this.

<GameData>
	<Colors>
		<Update>
			<Where>
				<Type>COLOR_PLAYER_ASSYRIA_ICON</Type>
			</Where>
			<Set>
				<Red>0.000</Red>
				<Green>0.000</Green>
				<Blue>0.000</Blue>
				<Alpha>1.00</Alpha>
			</Set>
		</Update>
		<Update>
			<Where>
				<Type>COLOR_PLAYER_ASSYRIA_BACKGROUND</Type>
			</Where>
			<Set>
				<Red>0.000</Red>
				<Green>0.000</Green>
				<Blue>0.000</Blue>
				<Alpha>1.00</Alpha>
			</Set>
		</Update>
	</Colors>
</GameData>

Set your own colors by modifying the values after Red, Green, Blue, and Alpha (to another number between 0 and 1). Currently both the background and border are set to solid black with the code above, which is probably not what you want, so change the colors yourself.

 

[averysillyman]

I think its important to also change the icon in game too.

As long as you stick with the color scheme, I see no problem with leaving the icon as is. Just darken the yellow a little and use the same icon.

 

[LeeS]

Somewhere on the steam workshop there's a mod called Ethiopia Color Fix (or something very similar) that only adjusted the colors of the civ and its units to make them a little more distinctive from barbarians. You could take a look at that mod for a sample of an operating mod that does what you're after, so far as the format of the commands you need.

 

[Marshall Thomas]

Is there a simple way to just make Assyria's color the same as Morocco's? I'm not talking about actually making a mod; just editing files.

Is the <Colors> file found under expansion_2, XML?

Thanks in advance.

 

[averysillyman]

Is there a simple way to just make Assyria's color the same as Morocco's? I'm not talking about actually making a mod; just editing files.

Is the <Colors> file found under expansion_2, XML?

Thanks in advance.

Don't change your ingame files. Overwriting the regular files can make your game not play well with other mods, make online break, and it's a big hassle to fix if you break your game accidentally. Just make a mod that replaces those files each time you load it.

Literally all you need to do is open a notepad file, copy-paste one of the codes we gave you and change the colors to what you like, and then open that mod file in ModBuddy and build it.

 

[AW Arcaeca]

OR:

<GameData>
	<PlayerColors>	
		<Update>
			<Where Type="PLAYERCOLOR_ASSYRIA"/>
			<Set PrimaryColor="COLOR_PLAYER_MOROCCO_ICON" SecondaryColor="COLOR_PLAYER_MOROCCO_BACKGROUND"/>
		</Update>
	</PlayerColors>
</GameData>

Or even:

<GameData>
	<Civilizations>
		<Update>
			<Where Type="CIVILIZATION_ASSYRIA"/>
			<Set DefaultPlayerColor="PLAYERCOLOR_MOROCCO"/>
		</Update>
	</Civilizations>
</GameData>

 

[Marshall Thomas]

Thanks everyone. It worked.