Is there any way to bring back the vanilla game's unit colors that are clearly visible on the units, or even clearly visisble highlights around the units ala how the builders and heroes have them? Friends and I have been experiencing increasing frustrations when playing together in the same area that we cannot readily distinguish between one another's units, especially when playing as or against the same factions. I realize you guys are going for a more realistic approach aesthetically, which I can definitely appreciate, but this is one of the times when it seems that gameplay value suffers too much for it. I also realize a player could just use the Q key to instantly make all of his own units readily visible, but this seems to be an unnecessary middleman or frustration, especially when in the heat of combat when even a second spent to press the Q key instead of a more vital key can make all the difference. Perhaps even make an option where players can turn unit colors on or off in the Options menu, as a sort of compromise between your team's aesthetic approach and my idea? Anything to alleviate this unnecessary frustration for an otherwise amazing mod!
Bring Back Unit Colors!
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Posted 02 April 2021 - 08:46 AM
We will not bring back housecolors. The reason for this is that it would require reexporting every single unit and hero model we have, and because it would load in an additional texture for each of them, which would severely impact performance.
I get the frustration though.
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Posted 05 May 2023 - 10:10 AM
First of all I would like to say that this is a very complete and amazing MOD, and that I would not like to ask anyone to do what you already said that is not going to be done. However, as a personal project, I would like to try to add this feature (maybe as a way of learning how this game works). What should be my starting point? I have checked the shapes/textures, w3d objects, this topic: https://forums.revor...no-more-colors/ and this post: https://opensage.github.io/blog/blender-w3d-plugin-2018
I would like to know how is it possible to create the HouseColor objects.
Thanks in advance!
Edited by berindal, 05 May 2023 - 04:36 PM.
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