Civ Colours Alternative

[Optional]

This file will just change the colours of the civs slightly. Rhye already made a file like this years ago, called 'new team colours'. I've always been using that one, but continued to make adjustments to that myself.
Not all colours have changed; I only made changes according to my own taste. I believe the new colours I came up with are fairly bright to pale-bright.
A few examples:
Bright green for Arabia;

Hazy yellow for Mongolia;

Pale terracotta for France;

Both attached files go in the Conquests/Scenario's folder.

 

[zo-zo]

I might use a couple of those colours, thanks.

 

[againsttheflow]

Thanks for uploading, the pale terracotta is especially nice.

 

[againsttheflow]

Hey Optional I was looking at your terrain mod in an old post and wondered which one it was? (as far as I can tell it's the same as previewed here)

 

[Grandraem]

Thanks for posting them.

I agree, the pale terracotta is very nice.

 

[Stormrage]

These are great! Thank you!

 

[Optional]

Hey Optional I was looking at your terrain mod in an old post and wondered which one it was? (as far as I can tell it's the same as previewed here)

I think the basis is SnOOpy nr2; the one that uses the bright-coloured, wavy water. I'm not sure whether that is still downloadable anywhere. It is added as an extra in Play the World Gold, and CCJ39 had a site where it could be uploaded, but that's gone now.
The terrain is also adjusted a bit; I replaced the trees with SnOOpy nr4, perhaps mountains as well, I don't remember, and volcanoes and marshes still had to be added. The marshes are Pounder's bayou marshes.
Do you like this? Perhaps, if SnOOpy nr2 is really hard to find -as I think it is- I should upload this terrain as well.

 

[Goldfool]

Thanks, I grabbed the green and terracotta you show in the previews, because I needed new colours for the Celts and Icans, much much much better.

 

[Blue Monkey]

Looks like some nice colors there. The terracotta might be fun for China.

 

[Yoda Power]

The terracotte is great because it's pink without being girlie.

 

[Virote_Considon]

Aye. Very nice!

The green is my favourite.

 

[darski]

I love these colours. That green really should be the celts

How do I add them into my Rhye's colours?
I have Rhye's in my main game folder.

 

[Optional]

If you have Rhye's in your main game, then his colours would sit in Art\Units\Palettes. The file that I have uploaded goes CivColoursAlt\Art\Units\Palettes. You just need to replace the Palettes file you already have with mine to have these colours in your main game.

The Celts are a lighter shade of green in my palette file. Their colour sits in between that of Arabia and Inca (both in the screenshots), but they're not mint, like in the original colours.

Also replacing individual colours is possible, if that's what you want to do. If you open up the palettes file you'll find ntp files that are given to the individual civs. Celts are ntp29, my Arabian green is in ntp21. What you could do is rename my ntp21 to ntp29 and put that in instead. The only problem you could have then is that there maybe is already a green in Rhye's that looks fairly similar. I remember when I gave Arabia this bright green I made Aztecs green duller, to keep the difference clear.

The terracotta is in ntp10, by the way.

 

[Blue Monkey]

If you open up the palettes file you'll find ntp files

Do the usual graphics programs (PSP, etc.) handle ntp files okay?

 

[Virote_Considon]

Do the usual graphics programs (PSP, etc.) handle ntp files okay?

They should do, since they're .pcx's.

 

[darski]

If you have Rhye's in your main game, then his colours would sit in Art\Units\Palettes. The file that I have uploaded goes CivColoursAlt\Art\Units\Palettes. You just need to replace the Palettes file you already have with mine to have these colours in your main game.

The Celts are a lighter shade of green in my palette file. Their colour sits in between that of Arabia and Inca (both in the screenshots), but they're not mint, like in the original colours.

Also replacing individual colours is possible, if that's what you want to do. If you open up the palettes file you'll find ntp files that are given to the individual civs. Celts are ntp29, my Arabian green is in ntp21. What you could do is rename my ntp21 to ntp29 and put that in instead. The only problem you could have then is that there maybe is already a green in Rhye's that looks fairly similar. I remember when I gave Arabia this bright green I made Aztecs green duller, to keep the difference clear.

The terracotta is in ntp10, by the way.

This is a bit of a challenge. Rhye's had ntp 10 as the greeks which I had already switched to one of his colours.

I will go looking for where the French pink is and rework based on that stuff in my game.

I think I will make the switch for the Celts though - well I will play it first but thanks for the heads up on the numbers.

 

[darski]

I made some changes to get the colours I wanted. The ntp10 was Greece. What I have done is to switch your ntp10 with ntp07 and Rhye's ntp 30 with the ntp10 (and vice versa) to get the colours I like for Persia.

The only colour that I am now missing is the original French pink that was at ntp07 but I don't know where to put it or if I need it.

 

[Optional]

The only colour that I am now missing is the original French pink that was at ntp07 but I don't know where to put it or if I need it.

Hehe..in my file I gave that pink to India, as I like the idea of pink elephants.
But you're right to say that it can be a bit confusing to swap colours around; when I changed things I didn't just replace or alter .pcx's, but also made swaps in the editor, which means that the relationships between the civ's and the palettes have changed as well. And it's not easy to see at a glance which civ uses which file.
Perhaps it's something that Steph can make more easy to see in his new editor..nudgenudge...winkwink...

 

[Blue Monkey]

I vaguely remember someone had made a list of which colors went with which civs, but I could very well be wrong.

 

[Optional]

I vaguely remember someone had made a list of which colors went with which civs, but I could very well be wrong.

In the editor you can see at a glance which civ uses which colour (and make changes there), but then you still don't know which ntp file that is. The ntp files are numbered, and go from ntp00 to ntp31, but there are no numbers visible in the editor. So you more or less have to open up each file and see which colour is in it and then compare with what you're seeing in the editor to know which civ is using which colour.
If the colour bars in the editor had the same numbering this would be easier.