A list of the current primary and secondary colors available: ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█/█/█/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█/█/█/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ ██ + █/█ [Thanks to...] What primary/secondary colors should there be, and how would you decide to mix them? Uber has had some concerns about color recognition, and I'd love to see how the community would address it. Extra bonus points if someone can make something that's workable for color-blindness.
The colors are too bright. All of them! I want them to be darker. Look back at the KS trailer, the yellow and red are darker for the players. People are complaining about the fact that their warmachines are painted bright yellow and sky blue, so we need to tone down the colors slightly. Yellow-Blue -> Yellow-Blue (ugh, the dark yellow looks bad on the forums) Red-Green -> Red-Green
W-what happened to white and pink? Where'd my white and pink go!? ;__; (Not to mention: black and red, white and red, etc...) Oh.. incase it wasn't evident in my post... I want white and pink color back.
You're missing a few combinations, like squishypon3 said. You can see (and choose) any of the available colour combinations with my secondary colour mod.
It was pointed out secondary color selection would make it's way back : https://forums.uberent.com/threads/we-added-a-new-private-forum-for-the-vanguards.59146/
OpenRA allows you to choose off a 256 rainbow color block a point of color you like. You can choose any variation of color even if visually similar to other players, although normally you wouldn't and obviously you could avoid it. This game, maybe make it less derp than that, but I think it should have dark blue, light blue, red, pink, yellow, orange, purple, dark green, light green, charcoal black, antique white. 10 colors, then make 10 secondary colors, thats right, every color with a secondary color. Possibly even "solid colors" depending on if they present a problem. At least it presents the most color variation. Without using a color brick with any small variation of color you ever want. Colorblind people either can play with bloom I hear, or they can request certain colors in-lobby. To clarify for those complaining, you could technically all in a team use different secondaries, or all the same secondary and different primaries if decided to be better. It would be a pre-suggested concept between teammates and requested before game start. If playing OpenRA, you obviously would have teams use varying shades of blue against red or cool against hot and for a third team it could even be entirely on the grayscale.
Here's an example of some colour combinations that I think make some sense. My main point here is avoiding saturated complementary (opposite) colours. Some combinations (like yellow and white or yellow and tan) are probably not very good, but I just included all combinations because I didn't bother going through and excluding them.
Here are all the colour combinations (if you can read JavaScript ) Code: var dFavouriteColour_colourtable = { 'ORANGE': { colour: 'rgb(255,144,47)', secondary_colour: ['LIGHT BLUE', 'DARK BLUE'] }, 'LIGHT BLUE': { colour: 'rgb(51,151,197)', secondary_colour: ['YELLOW', 'RED'] }, 'DARK BLUE': { colour: 'rgb(59,54,182)', secondary_colour: ['ORANGE', 'YELLOW'] }, 'GREEN': { colour: 'rgb(83,119,48)', secondary_colour: ['PINK', 'PURPLE'] }, 'YELLOW': { colour: 'rgb(219,217,37)', secondary_colour: ['LIGHT BLUE', 'PURPLE'] }, 'BLACK': { colour: 'rgb(25,25,25)', secondary_colour: ['ORANGE', 'PINK', 'LIGHT BLUE', 'GREEN', 'RED'] }, 'PINK': { colour: 'rgb(206,51,122)', secondary_colour: ['LIGHT BLUE', 'ORANGE'] }, 'WHITE': { colour: 'rgb(200,200,200)', secondary_colour: ['PINK', 'LIGHT BLUE', 'ORANGE', 'RED', 'GREEN'] }, 'BROWN': { colour: 'rgb(142,107,68)', secondary_colour: ['DARK BLUE', 'PINK'] }, 'PURPLE': { colour: 'rgb(113,52,165)', secondary_colour: ['YELLOW', 'GREEN'] }, 'RED': { colour: 'rgb(210,50,44)', secondary_colour: ['GREEN', 'LIGHT BLUE'] } }; (Taken from the Favourite Colour mod)
As said, I tested this as a single player. I was on a time crunch. It doesn't loop through all of the secondary color combinations when solo, especially since the AI won't pick a color. Handy! I'll update the OP.
Toy units is meant to be the aesthetic of this game, or so it feels? A good contrast, light hearted toys with bright colors absolutely annihilating each other for control over the galaxy. Opposites attract?
Can we please get carbon fiber! Mixing it with orange would make it look like the robots from the trailer
The robots in the trailer aren't orange far closer to yellow IMO. (also, edited my eariler post to include a list of colour combinations that use more neutral or sensible secondary colours).
Judging from this playtest, they'll be reskinning the models to make the secondary colors less... distracting. If secondary colors aren't as prominent as primary colors, what could you use them to identify? Maybe team assignment? Your secondary colors are a bit... brown. If you follow a strategy of having the primary colors not overlap with the secondary colors, you do risk not having some of the 'fun' colors appear in one or the other category. I'm not sure how to solve that.
The second part is solved by specifying which colour combinations can be made explicitly. As for the first part, you're probably right. It does seem that the amount of secondary colour on units is getting toned down, in which case I don't feel the highly contrasting colours are too much of a problem. I would still love to see brown, gold/dark yellow, tan, white & black as secondary colour options for most other colours though I'd also like to see gold/dark yellow & tan as primary colour options, because I would probably use tan more than anything.
https://forums.uberent.com/threads/...le-icons-updated-over-600-icons-v62037.49316/ https://forums.uberent.com/threads/rel-improved-strategic-icons-updated-v50742-all-icons.47519/
