Primary colours

[Gregoshi]

From a new patron, Cow_God, some modding questions:

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First of all this, is my first post and and I am impressed with the wealth of info that is here, but a few questions are still rattling around in the old noggin....

My friend and I are working on a mod, and we've been able to get through most of the obstacles we've come across; however, we've recently run into a few stop gaps.

First - Although we've made a map to replace the standard europe map with what we want, but have, as of yet been able to get Ultimate Paint to stop messing up the colour pallet and thus completely messing up the the game after we edit or even open the lukmap. We would just change the swatches in the pallet but they don't seem to allow editing. So how can we edit the province Definition map without corrupting the pallet? or at least how can we change the pallet swatches?

Second - This problem is likely much easier to fix but still it eludes me. I am searching for where to change the primary colours for a given faction..... is this even possible?

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[Wellington]

Cow_God

Welcome to the group. I presume, as per your moniker, your also a "Black and White" devotee (and maybe even "Populous too&#33http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif so your especially welcome to our little Dungeon http://www.totalwar.org/forum/non-cgi/emoticons/wink.gif

Re your questions -

First: I understand you CAN change the palette in Ultimate Paint (Giskard sussed this out many months ago). Have a good read of one of the stickied thread's ("LukMap/LBM info"?). If you still have problem I'll be uploading a quick utility to "The Orgs" test download area that allows replacing/extracting LBM palettes. I'll post to this thread when I've uploaded it.

Second: faction colours .... sigh This has been an area of frantic investigation since MTW was 1st released. Trying to ascertain exactly where the faction colour table is in the main MTW .exe has proved a real pain in the backside. Many have tried, all have failed, and CA are reluctant/unwilling to assist us in this area (obviously so - think about the possibilities inherent in our being able to change the primary and secondary colours for the factions). Maybe when the add-on for MTW is released, and CA can then concentrate 100% on RTW, maybe they'll point us modders in the rioght direction regarding this ... but ... don't hold your breath

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