It's like when I went to the doctor and told him it hurts when I do this and he said "well don't do that".

HAHA, you are so hillarious assholes.

Alright, the mockery beign tossed about here isn't really called for.

Point is, it's not a bug. Just don't pick a color that you can't see on the interface. Because you know if we, say, prevented you from picking colors that would be too dark to see (which can vary based on the brightness/contrast set on your monitor, mind you), we'd just have someone complaining about the restriction.

Alright, the mockery beign tossed about here isn't really called for.

-Thank you.

Point is, it's not a bug. Just don't pick a color that you can't see on the interface. Because you know if we, say, prevented you from picking colors that would be too dark to see (which can vary based on the brightness/contrast set on your monitor, mind you), we'd just have someone complaining about the restriction.

Yes a restriction would probably be complained about...

How about a note when choosing interface color though?
Or an outline for buttons option. Its ok if its black on black if there is a thin outline for all the black buttons. Or choosing both interface colors (instead of it being X on Black where you choose X, let it be X on Y where you choose both X and Y)

No, that won't be happening because it require the interface to be completely redone, sorry.

Guys this is an easy fix -

Go to your My Docs/My Games/GalCiv2 folder and open whichever race config file you need (ex. Terran Alliance.raceconfig)

Look for the line that says < InterfaceColor >0,0,0< /InterfaceColor >

This is XML - 0,0,0 is an RGB color (Red, Green, Blue). 0 is nothing and 255 is all

so 0,0,0 = black; 255,0,0 = red; 0,255,0 = green; 255,255,255 = white; etc, etc..

Change this number to something higher up than 0 and it'll fix your color.

Hint..since you chose black, I'm guessing you wanted to be cool looking. If all 3 numbers are the same, it'll be a shade of grey.

Peace~

nice workaround... not as good as an in game option to change the menu color, but this will do if you messed up in such a manner

... I thought once a game was started, it doesn't read from the raceconfig file? All the race settings are stored in the savegame, if you are running from a savegame, as far as I know. Config files only matter during the game/galaxy generation phase, at which point you can modify the files.

Unless you actually did see a change, then I am wrong and apologize for being an idiot. But I think I've tried editing a raceconfig file before and it didn't change anything in a game I had been playing. Anyway, doesn't changing those settings tend to modify everything on-the-fly? As in, if you set the Interface color to black in the customize race screen, wouldn't you be able to tell you wouldn't see a damn thing before you even went into the game? I suppose I'd have to start the game up and check, but right now I've got Wing Commander 1: Secret Missions 1 running on the computer with GalCiv2, and I should probably get back to the mission and finish it so I can check stuff...

i beleive he suggestd changing the config file that is saved in the save game... I haven't tried it (and I am probably never going to need to try it...) but its a nice workaround idea.