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How to Install the Fixed Player Colors: UPDATED!

By Lyyti

Notice how strange the team colors are in DE? Want to go back to the original color schemes?

This mod changes the team colors to better match the colors used in the original 1999 and 2013 releases.
No more neon blue, greenish yellow, pale cyan, or yellowish orange! Some original color ramps are even improved!

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Lyyti
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Category: Modding or Configuration

Languages: English

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8 Dec, 2019 @ 4:07am

5 May, 2020 @ 9:16am

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Guide Index

Overview

Introduction

Installation

Palette Comparison

Changelog

Comments

Introduction

With the release of DE, you may have noticed that there's one new visual change that can't be flipped off. The player colors are wrong! With some modding, this can all be fixed, and we can even take advantage of the new color depth to improve the old colors.

Click here for a full-size comparison between DE's shipped colors and the fix![i.imgur.com]

Installation

As of Update 36906, you can now use the mod manager to install this mod!

Mod Manager Method

Open the Mod Manager from the main menu by clicking "Mods".
Click "Browse Mods" and type "Classic Colors Fix" into the search bar.
Subscribe to the mod, and enable in the mod list. A restart may be required to apply it!

Old, Manual Method

Download Classic Color Fix[www.dropbox.com] and extract it.
Drag the resources and widgetui folders into the "\Steam\steamapps\common\AoE2DE" folder and accept the overwrite of files. You're done!
To uninstall, verify game files through the Steam library.

This mod will also fix the color of the shield on the main menu, the timeline colors, and the scoreboard colors!

Palette Comparison

Click here for an album of all of the palettes compared.

[imgur.com]

Changelog

5/3/2019

Updated the guide with native mod manager instructions.

12/8/2019

Fixed an error with the map colors.

10 Comments

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Faust 12 Feb @ 8:23pm

Hi, I got this through the mod manager and it only seems to work on the UI and idling jobless villagers, but not buildings, units or active villagers. Extracting the files from the mod and manually inserting them in the common folder didn't work either. Is an update possible? I really like the look of the mod so I'd love for it to work.