Posted: Wed Dec 07, 2022 5:17 am Post subject:
Changing Player Colors in Ares Not Working
I got ares on a test mod just to change the colors but when I start ares up the colors that I changed don't appear in the drop down menu and I cannot change the grey color at all.
Both of these I changed to a bluish grey but it still stays dark grey.
LightGrey=146,69,146
Grey=146,69,146
Also what the hell does this mean in the documentation ?
Replace X by the numbers from 1 to Count (without leading zeros) [Colors]Count= (integer)
And there is no SlotX or Slot ID in the rules so what is this talking about ? Last edited by adamstrange on Wed Dec 07, 2022 6:26 am; edited 1 time in total QUICK_EDIT
Also which of the colors in ares work and which don't work because using both R,G,B & H,S,L does not change the menu or in game color to anything that I changed.
I change these 3 green colors, Green, LightGreen and DarkGreen to all have this same apple green color setting that you see in this picture and all using both RGB & HSL and after running the ares.BAT it does nothing
And the Magenta [Pink]definitely does NOT work because I changed that to a dark purple using both RGB & HSL settings and it stays the same pink color.
This is what the third or fourth time trying to explain this to you now..?
The [Colors] section in the rulesmd.ini uses the HSL colour system, normally the H value can be between 0-360 & the S & L values are from 0-100. To use them in RA2 though you need to convert the values to an 8bit range of 0-255. You can use this to convert the H value form 0-360 degrees to 0-100 percent. Now that all three HSL values are 0-100 you can use this converter to change all three values into 0-255 8bit code. To use it copy each of the the 0-100 HSL values into the percent box & then copy the RGB values it gives you into the rules ini.
The game has a total of 19 colours but is hardcoded to only uses 8 of them for the player colours, the others are used for menu text & loading screens etc. Ares adds the ability to double the number of player colours from 8 to 16, to use them you need to add a new [Colors] section to the uimd.ini (& not the rulesmd.ini). The code used in the [Colors] section is all new, you wont find any examples to edit so you'll have to write it all out yourself.
Ares added 6 new default colours, to enable them simply add this to the uimd.ini.
[Colors]
Count=14
If you want to add 2 more or change any of the colours then you'll need to add code for each colour slot in the menu.
SlotX.DisplayColor= This is the colour shown in the skirmish menu screen & uses RGB values.
SlotX.ColorScheme= This is the colour used ingame & links to the colours used in the rules.ini [Colors] section.
SlotX.Tooltip= This the the name that appears when hovering the mouse over the colours in the skirmish menu.
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Also what the hell does this mean in the documentation ?
Replace the "X" within the SlotX.DisplayColor=, SlotX.ColorScheme= & SlotX.Tooltip= code with a number between 1-16 for each of the colour slots in the menu's colour selector. To try & make it as clear as possible here is an example of how the code in the uimd.ini should be written.
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Changing Player Colors in Ares Not Working
