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Friend - enemey colors

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I recently started to play some teamgames and I think friend-enemy colors can be really useful. However I don't like to play as blue. So my question is if its possible to change the code so u can play with the color u are used to.
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Magnam wrote:I recently started to play some teamgames and I think friend-enemy colors can be really useful. However I don't like to play as blue. So my question is if its possible to change the code so u can play with the color u are used to.

Yeah.
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_NiceKING_ wrote:
Magnam wrote:I recently started to play some teamgames and I think friend-enemy colors can be really useful. However I don't like to play as blue. So my question is if its possible to change the code so u can play with the color u are used to.

Yeah.

I though its obvious that I also want to know how u do it.
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You wanna play with pink? :P
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Hahaha yes :P everything else looks weird when u played so many games with pink :D
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I dunno how, but teamcolor is not so good, even if u are daltonic xD
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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin\data

Add this file:

playercolors.xml
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This file changes your "friend" color to orange and your "foe" color to red. Simply replace the numbers behind "friend" to the numbers behind pink. I don't know which number pink is or I'd do it myself for you, sorry for that.

To find out which number pink is simply check the order in game. Blue = 1, Red = 2, Yellow = 3, etc.
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i remember a friend of me playing in black vs broun... was confusing to see no HP bars :(
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Mr_Bramboy wrote:C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\SteamApps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin\data

Add this file:

playercolors.xml


This file changes your "friend" color to orange and your "foe" color to red. Simply replace the numbers behind "friend" to the numbers behind pink. I don't know which number pink is or I'd do it myself for you, sorry for that.

To find out which number pink is simply check the order in game. Blue = 1, Red = 2, Yellow = 3, etc.


Thanks its working perfectly fine :D
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yemshi wrote:i remember a friend of me playing in black vs broun... was confusing to see no HP bars :(


There are more colors than just the 8 we have?

Is there white?
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You can set up whatever color you want yep.
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so these colors+the eight standard ones. There are three whites though.
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Enemy colors is fine when there are many players and everybody is using the same civilization
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yemshi wrote:so these colors+the eight standard ones. There are three whites though.
What a pity is not possible using black when playing. Black units are so coooool
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you don't see the HP bars though.
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I messed around with that file a bit (wanted to change red into blue) a week or so ago. Now my friend/foe colors make my opponent white, which is the most confusing thing ever since selected units are also white xd
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this is pretty cool
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gonna try it
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Doesn't Friend or foe accomplish this? or is it only the yellow/blue/red?
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yemshi wrote:so these colors+the eight standard ones. There are three whites though.

In the coded file it seems colors are just described by numerical values. I wonder if you can adjust those to just get whatever color you want.
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I made one where I standardized the unit color with what appeared on the map. Made the purples and blues a little more distinguishable. I'll see if I still have a copy.

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