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@ Freybjörn - The Orange Version is a version that combines the Gray Changes with this mod with the Orange Changes in one of my previous Palette Mods. The "True Orange" Palette makes the Orange Player Colour less Red so that it stands out much better from the Red Player Colour.

http://gtm.steamproxy.vip/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1194976496&searchtext=orange

gg

Hi. I'm sorry, but english – is not my native language and I have a question: what's mean slang "orange ver." (maybe it's as "night" versoins of something)? Grey colour with some palette tint of orange or?.. Some another?^^"""

Well, it sure sucks how a 'modernized' version of a game has LESS mod capabilities than an old version of it.

@ Niggarto el Negro - Like Pooh said, Voobly is a 3rd Party Client based around most older RTS games, but it's mostly associated with (The original retail version of) AoE2, which is their most popular hosted game. The one that Voobly has with it's modding system compared to the Workshop is that they have "Whitelisted" mods for Dataset mods, which is required to have more control over the player colours. Because of this, the "Dark Grey Patch" is able to exist on Voobly because the Author is able to directly change where Gray gets it colours from in the Palette. In order for me to acomplish the same thing, I would have to upload the mod to AoE2HD as a Dataset Mod, which HD doesn't really handle that well. The only other way is to modifly the Palette, which is what I've done, but that affects everything.

@ Winnie the Pooh - Thanks. I which there was more I could do with it though.

Thank you so much for making this! I've always wanted for the Gray colour to be darker, but have never found a mod to make that happen until now.

Voobly is a program for games to play online with ppl, like gameranger but alot less games and way better. AOE2 is on the list in Voobly (it actually being the most played game on it)

Excuse me for intruding upon a wrong thread to talk about, but what is Voobly?

That is because Voobly allows "Whitelisted" Dataset Mods that are in sync with the regular dataset (or the AoC 1.0c with Userpatch 1.5). The Black Colour mod on Voobly is a Dataset Mod, so it can change the Colour Gradiant "Location" for the Gray Player Colour, which is only possible through DAT Modding. HD obviously doesn't have a "Whitelist" System, so anything that involves modding the DAT is pretty much inpractical.

Plus I think the original creator uses a trick or exploit or something, since the "Black Colour" only consists of two colours, not 8, which seems to be physically impossible, given on how Bitmaps work and how AoE2 handles it. Regardless, it still would require modding the DAT.

Weird, on voobly they have a perfect black color remplacing grey

This is the best I, or anybody really, can do without making the game look like complete crap.

Outside of trying to convince the developers to change the Graphic System outside of Bitmaps, the only other possibility is to basically reconstruct the Palette by hand so that there can be a Black player gradiant without affecting the other Player Colours. But to truly implement this, requires use of a DAT mod AND I would have to recompile EVERY SLP file in the game to make it compatable with the new palette, which is tens of thousands of files.

We need black!