Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM

[FunkOff]

@endranii You are misinterpreting. I can tell my units apart from my ally's, what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks... at least it takes a lot longer than it should.

[Sylph_]

@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:

what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks.

Hang on, it's the enemy that's dark red, yes? Your artillery and tanks should both be blue.
I'm also failing to understand this, I think.

[FunkOff]

No, in the snip, my color is dark red. Also, it would still be a problem if my ally or my enemy was dark red for the same reason that it's hard to distinguish land units from other land units.

[Sylph_]

@funkoff AH! I used ctrl+e to put team colours on...
That way, I'm blue, allies are light or dark green, and enemies are light or dark red.

[TheVVheelboy]

@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:

@endranii You are misinterpreting. I can tell my units apart from my ally's, what I can't do is tell my artillery from my tanks... at least it takes a lot longer than it should.

Oh, that makes way more sense. And while I don't have that problem while playing at over 10% of my screens brightness I do struggle a tad bit when it's all the way down. So it seems to be mostly contrast issue for some screens or brightness levels.

So yeah, now I fully get what you mean. Imo, instead of just removing the colour it might be better to maybe introduce a second set of "outlines" and "inlines" for the darker colours. So that instead of the black on dark colours we get something more visible for them.

[RedX]

I'm not entirely sure how the icons are rendered, is it possible that the lines could be made white for some darker colors? Or is that hardcoded/part of the engine?

[BlackYps]

The game uses the same set of icons regardless of color. There is no functionality to provide a second set for dark colors, so sadly this is not possible

[Reckless_Charger]

There various mods with custom icons if you are having difficult distinguishing units

[IndexLibrorum]

@funkoff said in Please remove dark red from the color options in TMM:

@endranii You are misinterpreting.

That's a funny way of saying "I didn't explain my problem clearly in my post, sorry."

Generally agree though, as well as with some of the other comments about similar colours.

[myEmperor]

You can use mode/redact some game files to change color. Have no idea how to do that, but that's definitely possible

[CocaineDiesel]

@indexlibrorum

That's a funny way of saying

Let's not choose violence. His suggestion that a lighter color be used made it unambiguous in the way he intended. An assumption was made in the replies that everybody else wrongly got on board with.

[FunkOff]

@slicknixon Indeed. Whether or not I am the dark red color player in the original screenshot is irrelevant, the dark red color is still terrible and should not be used.