One simple question..

EB is a great mod that I do play frequently and it works perfectly for me, thus I have but one simple question.

Regarding your minimap, how do you make it appear the way it is? As in - say the Romani control all of Italy, it's just one solid colour (red) and not ruined by borderlines showing up as well as it would in RTW, when the provinces would be shaded in red and the borderlines black.

I think the vanilla minimap just..ruins it. It simply doesn't look nice. Which is why I loved the minimap in the original Medieval: Total War, and hated it when they added the borderline thing in Medieval II: Total War.

If possible - is there a way to make this..minimap thing possible for vanilla RTW or vanilla MTWII?

I believe, that there is 2 sets of colours for a faction, province colours and border colours, make these the same, and it should appear as one solid colour.

Not entirely sure though

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Originally Posted by A_Dane

I believe, that there is 2 sets of colours for a faction, province colours and border colours, make these the same, and it should appear as one solid colour.

Not entirely sure though

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Exactly

Giving you the M2TW version, don't play RTW any more.
Go to descr_sm_factions.txt in your data folder. Back it up(Always do that)
the entries will be of the following:
england, faction england, spawned_on_event
culture northern_european
religion catholic
symbol models_strat/symbol_england.CAS
rebel_symbol models_strat/symbol_rebels.CAS
primary_colour red 215, green 0, blue 0
secondary_colour red 0, green 87, blue 177
loading_logo loading_screen/symbols/symbol128_england.tga
standard_index 12
logo_index FACTION_LOGO_ENGLAND
small_logo_index SMALL_FACTION_LOGO_ENGLAND
triumph_value 5
custom_battle_availability yes
can_sap no
prefers_naval_invasions yes
can_have_princess yes
has_family_tree yes

The bold areas need to be same, i.e

primary_colour red 215, green 0, blue 0
secondary_colour red 215, green 0, blue 0

Alright, I actually managed to change the Julii faction to a T. Perfectly done.
All I did was set the green and blue values to 0 while the red values equal to the primary value.

However, I tried something different with the House of Brutii as another test. I switched all the colour values so they'd match their primary counterparts.

It came out as I wanted, however..their colour was a much, much brighter green. Heh.

I only tried that because I didn't know what else to do. I knew they weren't red, so I didn't know what colour to pick besides green. I then thought..I have no idea what to do with factions that don't use green/red/blue colours at all, so I was sort of confused and was hoping just doing that general formula as I did with the Brutii would solve any future woes.

If you change secondary color to primary color and keep both same it stays solid. Its in the descr_sm_factions

If you want to use some colour other than the default you can easily look up the needed RGB values on the internet. Just google it, there should be several sites for that.