Custom race colors

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Please fix this.

oh, you want MORE detail? oh.... ok

Customize a race and get to the appearance tab. Select one of the items you can customize and pick a new color. Go to another item and select it. The custom color you chose for the first item gets retained. Now I can understand how this would be designed this way, so as to make it easy to match your trim or hull color to your race color. But here is the problem.

I want to adjust some of the colors without copying from another field, and there is no way to determine what the 3 sliders were set at when you select another item. Would it not make more sence when you open an item for a new color that the sliders get set and the current color for that item instead of the slider settings for the color chosen on the previous choice? I only wanted to make a slight shade change to my hulls to match better with a new trim color. Because of the way it is set up, I can't do that and the hull color I do have currently was difficult to achieve. (harder for me, as I am also color blind but that is not the point of the post).
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Reply #1 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Well, just click on the one that matches closest to what the default is, and slightly change that. I don't see it is a problem, but the Dev's or others might want to look into it, so bump.
Reply #2 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
Thats a pretty good idea, I've noticed that once or twice too.

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Reply #3 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
On the topic of color and not interface. The custom colors I had resembled (to me) a light steel color trim and a copper colored hull. I went to adjust some of the green tint out of the hull and fell into a color I really like. The trim still looked good, but needed to be a little darker but was miles away from the new hull color. It took quite a while to re-figure out the right mix, and even then it was just not quite right.

At the top where it shows the old color and new color side by side is great. If they could activate an eyedropper for the original color field, to set the sliders on that, that would work quite well also. Or for that matter, at least just list the rby numbers for the original color. Currently there isn't anywhere that I have found to get that info. Maybe it's in an xml somewhere like the race file. Might have to go peeking around and see.
Reply #4 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The colour palette is also rather limited, it would be nice to have a better colour picker.
Reply #5 from GalCiv2 Forums Top
The custom color settings are in the \My Documents\My Games\GalCiv2\CurrentCustomRace0.raceconfig file. You can open this file with notepad.v It is in XML format.

RaceColor]12,12,255[/RaceColor]
[ShadowColor]0,5,41[/ShadowColor]
[UndefendedStarColor]0,200,255[/UndefendedStarColor]
[DefendedStarColor]0,200,255[/DefendedStarColor]
[SectorColor]12,12,255[/SectorColor]
[BaseColor]241,251,220[/BaseColor]
[TrimColor]0,64,128[/TrimColor]
[EngineColor]0,255,255[/EngineColor]
[InterfaceColor]0,200,255[/InterfaceColor]

The regular race settings for all the racesare in the \GalCiv2\Data\English\RaceConfig.xml file in the same format as above. This is for the single game; metaverse files are in the respective Metaverse directories. Make a backup before editing just in case.

Also, not trying to be snarky, but has anyone thought to write down their RGB setings on a piece of paper before leaving the color selection screen? Not an optimal solution, since you can find this info in the above files once saved, but it works during the experimentation process.