Editing colors? Here's how!

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Editing colors? Here's how!

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Quick video on how to edit colors in Aoe3, so that you can get custom colors. The attachment or file you need to modify is right underneath the video. You need to extract it using some modding program for AoE3, but I've gone ahead and done that for whoever wants it.

[video]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VYoMPcKiwqg[/video]

playercolors.xml
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I put my playercolors.xml file in

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C:\Program Files (x86)\Steam\steamapps\common\Age Of Empires 3\bin\data


Some things to be wary of, sometimes friend/foe colors are bugged out and won't load correctly. Setting up a hotkey to quickly turn it on/off helps a lot, courtesy of this thread's help! Also careful when changing to some colors like white (selected units on mini-map are white, also winter maps), brown (camouflaged units on some maps) or black (HP bars).

[spoiler=spoiler]I used AOE3ED to open DATA.BAR

I found playercolors.xml.xmb, which I converted to an .xml file using Fileconverter.exe

Then I edited the .xml file to the colors which I liked.

When I start the game offline in skirmish, my colors appear. However, when I go online, they do not appear, unless I tick off friend/foe colors and then tick it back on. Then the colors appear on the online match. What am I doing wrong?[/spoiler]
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Umm, nothing. This is the correct way to do it.
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You can use hotkey to enable/disable friend/foe colors to facilitate the process.
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Once u turn it on with a hotkey it works the rest of the time. At least it did for me.
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hmm well

I ended up editing colors 1 and 2 to the friend / foe colors I wanted. Somehow in QS games I'm always player 1? Shouldn't the other guy also be player 1 on his end? Idk, but I'm getting the colors I want now. go figure?!

n0el wrote:Once u turn it on with a hotkey it works the rest of the time. At least it did for me.


This seemed to have worked for me? Not sure yet, need to try a few more times.

Edit: It hasn't worked. When I choose custom colors and go into the game with friends/foe colors selected, the custom colors come up, not the settings I chose. Well it's still fine because I can just edit the first and second colors and get the colors I want in QS, I guess?
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QS teams are purely random, as far as I'm concerned. Also, our yesterday game in QS on Yukon was just randomly recorded, lol.
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QS games aren't randomly recorded, I set them to be recorded! :D

I honestly fall apart to raids in our game too.
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Edit: Hey guys, how do I get a timer like Aiz's? I'm having too much fun editing my Stringtable, lol
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kami_ryu wrote:QS games aren't randomly recorded, I set them to be recorded! :D

I honestly fall apart to raids in our game too.

You choose to allow games that are recorded, but from my experience it's rather random :O
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Games in QS are only recorded if the player ticking the record game box is team 1 (blue color). If he spawns as team 2 (red color) the game won't be recorded.
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Really? That sounds silly. :(
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Make the Ikko-Ikki Divine Strike become "rekt" like Aiz's
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I already changed it to something else.

Check it out: https://youtu.be/ZUG_Xifnzpw?t=2h12m25s

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pecelot wrote:
kami_ryu wrote:QS games aren't randomly recorded, I set them to be recorded! :D

I honestly fall apart to raids in our game too.

You choose to allow games that are recorded, but from my experience it's rather random :O

If you check record and you are player 1 it will record, otherwise if you are p2 it won't.
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Mr_Bramboy wrote:Games in QS are only recorded if the player ticking the record game box is team 1 (blue color). If he spawns as team 2 (red color) the game won't be recorded.


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Bump. Saw some people asking about custom colors, so this thread is now a way to explain how that works.
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@pecelot. Please sticky it or include it the pinned thread made by Riki
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any tutorial on how to edit hotkeys?
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kami_ryu wrote:Edit: Hey guys, how do I get a timer like Aiz's? I'm having too much fun editing my Stringtable, lol

You mean with milliseconds? It's an option in user.cfg; showMilliseconds
If you're not familiar with it, that's a file you create in Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Startup
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EAGLEMUT wrote:
kami_ryu wrote:Edit: Hey guys, how do I get a timer like Aiz's? I'm having too much fun editing my Stringtable, lol

You mean with milliseconds? It's an option in user.cfg; showMilliseconds
If you're not familiar with it, that's a file you create in Documents\My Games\Age of Empires 3\Startup


it works!!! thanks !
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Ashvin wrote:@pecelot. Please sticky it or include it the pinned thread made by Riki

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