How to change color of cultural borders?

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I'm playing as the Incan Empire and I don't really like the gold color of their cultural borders. I'd really like to change it to possibly blue, grey or white. Would anyone please tell me how to change this? Thanks in advance
 
Play as a different civ?

No seriously, the colours are all changable in the xml...
 
Eh, there are several files that might need/could be changed to accomplish this. If you want to change it to a color of a different civ, then that's easy, just go to

Your BtS folder > Assets > XML > Civilizations > CIV4Civilizationinfos (open in notepad)

Find this line for Incas:

<DefaultPlayerColor>PLAYERCOLOR_DARK_YELLOW</DefaultPlayerColor>

And you can just change the color to another already existing color for a civilization by browsing the XML to find the name of the color you want (you probably don't need to do this since all the colors are things like GRAY, DARK_GRAY, LIGHT_GRAY, just make sure that it exists).

If you want to create a new color. That's more complicated, and I have a bad habit of being lazy and just changing the RGB of already existing colors.

That can be done in:

Your BtS folder > Assets > XML > Interface > CIV4colorvals

Make sure your not saving over the existing files, just move them to their corresponding Custom_assets folder, otherwise things might be challenging if you ever want to revert back to default, or made a mistake. This will only change the colors in single player, if you want them to change in multiplayer too you will have to overwrite the original files (keep extra copies of the original just in case, if you decide to do this). Doing this will cause the *MOD* to show up when in multiplayer.
 
Can I have multi-colour rainbow culture borders?

:D

Should I fancy having a gay nation... :p
 
lol yeah thats true, never really thought that one through did I!

:D lol
 
I don't have any problem changing color for new games, but how do I change colors for games in progres (saved games). I'm using Lt. Bob's 40 Civs mod. When I start a new game (with or without Lt. Bob's 40 Civs mod), the color changes I made in notepad are in effect. But when I load a saved campaign, the colors are default (unchanged). Is there a way to change colors for a saved game? Thanks in advance
 
Does anyone know if there's a way to do this for a saved/current game? In my current game: Hannibal shares borders with William Orange, Ghenghis shares borders with Sitting Bull, and Alexander shares borders with Darius. When looking at the map (the main screen or the world map on the lower right), it's difficult to see where one country ends and the other begins. For example, the Carthaginians and the Dutch look like one big orange country. Can this be changes in a current game? Thanks in advance
 
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