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Try this... Go to TT/game/client/ui/bitmaps from there try edit RedDot.jpg and GreenDot.jpg files. No I haven't tested this, but worth a try. Tell me if that worked.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
^ Works. Editing mine.
Okay, cool to know. Tell me after you have edited them. Does they change ingame dots and also serverlist dots(the colors next to server names)
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Yup, both.
@Roo
I Feel ya...
I'm color blindas well.
People keep asking me:
"What's it like to see black and white?"
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEERRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
Being color blind doesn't meen you don't see color, it means you see certain colors differently!
Its pathetic, but thats a good idea!
I wanna give it a try!
Sometimes I team kill cuz I cant really tell if someone is green blue or red...
Roo, how do you make the Frantic maps all with the Lush terrain? It's hard to see sometimes with the dark red
@Triv
Uhm! Well that changes the color of the player dots in the Join Game screen and the color of the player dots in game
but unfortunately doesn't change the radar dots. Any other ideas?
@ Tha_X
1. Go to ~/game/data/terrains/FTerrain and copy file FTerrain01.jpg, FTerrain02.jpg and FTerrain03.jpg
2. Then paste into ~game/data/terrains/Redterrain
3. Delete the originals if you dont care about switching back or Rename them to RedTerrain01.old
etc if want to backup
4. Then rename the FTerrain files to RedTerrain01.jpg, Redterrain02.jpg and RedTerrain03.jpg
Viola!
Last edited: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 3:04:55 AM
Hehee was slow. :)
Tha_x go to... TT/game/data/terrains/FTerrain from here copy FTerrain01.jpg, FTerrain02.jpg, FTerrain03.jpg and FTerrain04.jpg. Then go to RedTerrain folder which is also in terrains folder. Paste here the four FTerrains you copied earlier. Rename them as RedTerrain01, RedTerrain02, RedTerrain03 and RedTerrain04. NOTE: It's a good idea to save the original Frantic textures if you want to change them back later.
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Last edited: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 3:00:28 AM
Heh!
triv I just missed you!
It didn't work ^^
got any other ideas?
@Tha_X
I like to keep the original RedTerrain04 because it is black rock and looks cool against the green grass
Humm the radar dots colors could be written in scripts...
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Roo,
I don't think you can change the colors of the dots or goal/reload rings in the radar. I believe those colors are determined in code; not with images. But perhaps there is another way to help ya...
How about making a new radar with a solid color background. I really don't know much about color blindness, but I'm assuming that the added contrast of a solid dot against a solid background might work.
MM
^ Dont think so:
It is possible to change it
It seems the.gui has this:
./radar_base.png dotBitmap./radarDot.png bigDotBitmap./radarBigDot.png innerCircle 0.8 dotOffsetX -2 dotOffsetY dotWidth 8 dotHeight radius 260 exponent 0.67 GuiShapeNameHud height 2 -1 653 485 fillColor 1.00000 0.000000 0.00000 1.0000 frameColor 1.00000 0.000000 0.00000 1.000000 minVerticalOffset 1.0 maxVerticalOffset 8.0 distanceFade 0.2
This is all for the radar, It begins with info for the places where to find some dots, and then has the information of the sizes of the dots, has some info about a color (fill color and frame color) and some other things... Work with this and it might work..
EDIT: It seems that the images are white bases for the dots, the code seems to have the info of wich color to put above it :) We have the info about 1 or 2 colors in the.gui, where are the other colors?
Last edited: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 4:07:53 PM
How bad is your color blindness? I don't know about these things, but you could try this. Depending pretty much how bad is your color blindness. You could go to game/client/ui and edit the radarDot.png. That is the dot which shows on the radar as red, blue and green. That image only gives the shape to the dots not the color, because it's white. The color to the dots comes from some ui script(most likely) as art was saying above already. You could change the color of the radarDot to different then the default three colors would get a mixed colors of theirs, but I don't know would it change anything, if your color blindness is bad. But you can try it. :)
Edit: I tried little bit the dot image color editing and I couldn't change the standard teams colors much in the radar, but try it yourself. Might help little or not. Best option is that if you somehow find/get the codes for the radar dots and edit the color value what is put on them. You could try bug out Bravetree that they didn't think about colorblind people while making the game and ask them give you the code for it. 
You don't have to let go of one rope before grabbing the other. But you'll have to let go of one if you want to swing forward.
Last edited: Wednesday, July 20, 2005 at 5:28:49 PM
Thanks fellas I will look into both solutions
@Triv in a red/green color blind test I see none out of 15 combinations
so if the radar background is lush the red dots disappear against the green/brown landscape
Or if in a frantic map the default tank skin disappears against the red terrain skin
sort of like fighting ghosts - lol
@Art this sounds quite promising thanks again for helping :-)
Last edited: Saturday, July 23, 2005 at 4:43:14 AM
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The key is the radarDot.png
On Triv's hunch I subletly changed the background color to a combination I can see
1. Open radarDot.png in Photoshop (backup first)
2. Zoom to maximun resolution
3. Use magic wand in dead center of picture
4. Fill with Pastel Cyan at 50% opacity
5. Save out
OK! What this does from my POV...
The red radar turns to a Purple I can see against the lush and spooky maps
The Blue dots remain blue and the Yellow dots turn to a Green that also
stands out quite nicely
Thanks again for all the help!
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Hi all
As many here know I am red-green color blind and have had to mod certain things for my own sake.
Among them are the red speedy reticle - it's now yellow
and the Frantic map skins - in my game their all lush
Citing these two examples you can readily guess how impossible it is for me to see the
red radar dots when playing indie
I have searched the game and haven't found the color designation for the radar dots
Has anyone done this before or knows how to?
I would appreciate any knowledge that is known!
Roo