Adding Colors to Multiplayer/Skirmish

[VladKA]

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Recently got back into modding RA2, and ran into a problem

See, I'd like to add colors to skirmish, so I followed the documentation, problem is, my uimd.ini looks like this by default (with ares installed)

Code:

; AdvancedCommandBar Entries
;
; ButtonList
; This is a list of buttons that the user might desire on his command bar.
; This list orders buttons from left to right and right-justifies them.
; If the user inserts an 'x' into the list (i.e. "blah,x,thing, ...")
; it will leave an empty slot in the command bar between the appropriate
; entries.
;
; The supported entries are as follows:
;
; AttackMove
; AutoDeploy -- Currently unsupported.
; Beacon
; Cheer
; Deploy
; Guard
; PlanningMode
; Stop
; Team01
; Team02
; Team03
; TypeSelect


;
; This section is used for solo and skirmish games
;
[AdvancedCommandBar]
ButtonList=Team01,Team02,TypeSelect,Deploy,Guard,PlanningMode

;
; This section contains the configuration for multiplayer games
;
[MultiplayerAdvancedCommandBar]
ButtonList=Team01,Team02,TypeSelect,Deploy,Guard,PlanningMode,Beacon

The documentation mentions tweaking the "colors" section of the uimd.ini, of which there is none.

So I tried adding my own section by adding

Code:

[Colors]
Count=14

excetera

Still no change to the ingame dropdown menu. Is there something I'm missing here?

[XxpeddyxX]

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You didn't specify the colors you added. The documentation tells you that you have to actually add the colors in, not just increase the # count.

By default there are 8 colors, I have 10 colors in my mod and thus added these extra lines in:

Code:

Slot9.DisplayColor=189,85,0
Slot9.ColorScheme=Red
Slot9.Tooltip=STT:PlayerColorBrown

Slot10.DisplayColor=128,128,128
Slot10.ColorScheme=Grey
Slot10.Tooltip=STT:PlayerColorCharcoal

If you want 14 you'll have to add them accordingly.

[MustaphaTR]

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There are default colors in game and it should work without specifing them. My mod has 15 color, defaults + black. Only black is specified.

I think your problem is forgotten newline. There should be a newline below or game don't reads it.

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