11 replies to this topic

[Child Hater]

How can i make the additional colors show up in moclient ? or is there a limit ?

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Edited by ddddddd, 07 March 2017 - 12:59 PM.

[mevitar]

If there wasn't a limit, everyone would be able to customize their colors themselves. But it was implemented this way, and i doubt that will change. Don't try to change it in your client, because that won't make others be able to see the color you selected.

If you want additional text colors for the client, just request it, and maybe they will be added at one point (i can't guarantee that, though). But for ingame colors, forget about it. No additional ones will be added, and you shouldn't even try adding them yourself, because doing that will make you unable to play with others.

Edited by mevitar, 07 March 2017 - 04:00 PM.

[Child Hater]

managed to get the colors in client but then the XNA framework started crashing for some reason.

what's weird, is that even when i tried reverting back to default the client refused to launch.

luckily i had a backup and sorted things out

Edited by ddddddd, 07 March 2017 - 04:06 PM.

[siegelad]

Personally i don't like the NeonBlue 145,255,255 (Blue) for skirmish because it doesn't look the same like the Allies' AlliedLoad 154,255,255 (is that the accurate one?) Blue color which is more darker.

even though, they almost have the same values  .

[Speeder]

AlliedLoad makes text on black background hard to read.

[lovalmidas]

That feel when you don't (and can't) have the source code to the game engine, making Westwood programmers lord over you even decades after they are gone. 

 

[Solais]

I wonder if they wouldn't be willing to give out the source code if approached.

[SPCell]

I would love to get black and tan colors from campaign into skirmish and MP.

Edited by SPCell, 22 March 2017 - 03:38 PM.

[Speeder]

Black as a selectable skirmish color will never ever happen.

[siegelad]

Is there a way to make the timer backgrounds white to make darker colors visible? (just wondering)

[SPCell]

Black as a selectable skirmish color will never ever happen.

What about tan and dark red?

[IconOfEvi]

I wonder if they wouldn't be willing to give out the source code if approached.

 

Westwood's long gone, I doubt very much Brett Sperry or one of the old veterans has the source code anymore, they couldn't release it anyways as legally it's not theirs and would land their ass in jail, and EA's approach to releasing source code is very well known. Actually, even, EA themselves might not have the source code. It does happen at times. I am an old Outpost 2 player, and even a while ago, when we asked Sierra about releasing the source code for such an old game, they looked and found out they'd lost it years ago, sometime during the hubbub when Dynamix was folded in.

 

It happens. I'm sure EA still has theirs, since they inherited all WW's stuff and archives, but long and short, no were not getting it.