[Quick Fix Please?]Building Progress Bars

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Dear Ironclad!!

Hey just a simple request that probably would only require changing a few words in the code.  Can you change the build progress bars in the window of the frigate/capital ship factories when they are building a ship?  They are currently yellow and the background of all ships in their small icons are yellow.  This makes it hard to see if your ship will be out soon.  Maybe make it black or red or something.  Obviously this is not urgent or whatever, but just a simple and tiny request to make the game even better and user-friendly.

Thanks,

-Phal

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Reply #1 from Sins Forums Top

The bars are indeed yellow and the ship icon are orange. It is indeed not the best contrast but it still shows up clearly. If you are having real difficulty telling them appart it migth be for 1 of the following reasons I cna imagine.

1: You have a visual color impairness, sucks for you sorry dude.

2: Your monitor is old and it's colors are fading out.

3: Your monitors color and brightness setting are not properly setted.

Reply #2 from Sins Forums Top

While i agree with EadTaes, I would say that the bars are indeed a bit hard to see in some cases, though not impossible. I have a brand new monitor, and so far as i know im not color blind o_O  

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Reply #3 from Sins Forums Top

You can change it. Under Windows folder there is a file call Colors. Just change the min and max construction colors. I dont think it would give you a different Checksum.

Reply #4 from Sins Forums Top

Quoting -Ue_Carbon, reply 3
You can change it. Under Windows folder there is a file call Colors. Just change the min and max construction colors. I dont think it would give you a different Checksum.
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just use a dev.exe, so it can allow u to use to see dyanmically which colors you are changing into

Reply #5 from Sins Forums Top

1: You have a visual color impairness, sucks for you sorry dude.

2: Your monitor is old and it's colors are fading out.

3: Your monitors color and brightness setting are not properly setted.
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4: None of the above!!

No really, but since I don't want to go into the folders and mess with files and probably screw something up, I'll obviously put up with it since it is such a miniscule pet-peeve (as I made clear).

And yes, I probably shouldn't have said both were yellow, cuz they aren't.  The bar is yellow and the pic behind is a dirty yellow/orange...but obviously they are not the best contrast of colors.

 

-Phal

Reply #6 from Sins Forums Top

Fair enough. But its really not something that you can mess up. Its just HTML color code.

Reply #7 from Sins Forums Top

Fair enough. But its really not something that you can mess up. Its just HTML color code.
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Yeah i went in there just now and changed it to this:

minConstruction FF0000
maxConstruction FF0000

FF0000 is red.  Not sure if I picked the right variable or not.  Will test it out later when I'm caught up on studying!!!  X(

Thanks

-Phal

Reply #8 from Sins Forums Top

Np, yeah just remember to leave the first 2 'ff' alone no matter what color you pick.