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5 years ago
Sep 1, 2020, 7:15:53 PM

I'm too old to be embarrassed by this stuff, so wanted to ask if I am understanding the colors correctly for the factions in the game, since I'm colorblind. I put them in paint.net to make them larger and I think I figured most of them out but want to ask if I got any wrong.  Thanks.  The ones I don't like to put into games together because they look too much alike are the 2 reds and the 2 pinks (assuming I named them correctly). Actually the cyan(?) and pink are kind of hard for me to tell apart, as well.


I should say that, for the most part, Amplitude did a good job on picking these colors for colorblind friendly. Often I have trouble with purple and blue, but all these purples and blues are quite distinct from one another. (Speaking of which, it looks like I forgot to call out that I think it's purple in the middle :) )


Edit: Hm...the colors seem a bit different in game, maybe due to gamma.  I would say the pink on the bottom is magenta in game. 


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5 years ago
Sep 1, 2020, 8:06:07 PM

There's a colorblind mode in the settings if you're having trouble!

Here's what they all are though, ordered left to right


First Row: Blue, Red, Orange, Light Green


Second Row: Dark Green, Cyan (Blue), Purple, Pink


Third Row: Yellow, Sea Green, Violet, Dark Red

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5 years ago
Sep 1, 2020, 8:14:41 PM

Dark crimson-ish on the bottom right, floral lavander to the left of it and violet-ish purple on top of lavander

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5 years ago
Sep 1, 2020, 10:06:10 PM

Thanks, I wasn't so far off.  It's been much worse in other games :)  


Colorblind filters are funny things.  Half the time they don't work (or even make it worse), and the other half of the time, they do help with contrast (telling the colors apart) but have the tradeoff of making the colors both uglier and harder to read. 


When I use the colorblind filter in ES2, they do become easy to tell apart, but some colors I can no longer tell what they are.  One of the greens and one of the reds become some kind of unreadable drab colors (I assume drab red and drab green :) )


Actually, yellow vanishes completely. I think maybe it beomes beige. It may be a single filter that attempts to compensate for red-green colorblind forms and the yellow-blue form at once. I'm actually happier to play without the filter now that you people answered my questions about the colors :)


Edit: I am not so sure it even uses a filter at all -- I think it's just a palette that is meant to be better contrast for people with any form of colorblindness.

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5 years ago
Sep 2, 2020, 12:01:01 AM

Or you could teach me to fish. I've considered jumping into modding myself since I'm a Python programmer, but I'm pretty busy with work and also I don't feel I have enough knowledge of the game to be making the call to make big changes. And also don't want to spoil quests I've not yet completed by reading the files they're based on.

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5 years ago
Sep 2, 2020, 12:09:02 AM

Don't worry, quests aren't written in a way that would spoil them. Text, effects, and rewards are separate. I'd happily show you how to mod if you're wanting to learn.

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5 years ago
Sep 2, 2020, 12:19:24 AM

I'm off work Friday and have a long weekend so maybe I'll start looking into it :) Tweaking the color palette seems like a good start; maybe just color codes somewhere.

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