Had that idea back last year when people were first discussing a mod for the grey color. Just took a couple hours to edit the colors so they look good.

So I played a couple games with it and decided to only change half of the player colors (1,6,7, and 8.). Otherwise it's too hard to tell the players apart.

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Installation:

Place the following "Dark Colors" extracted folder into this directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Voobly Mods\AOC\Local Mods

Download: [You must login to view link]

Looks Good.

Here's what the units look like too: [You must login to view link]

I don't see that great of changes for some players but others their units look awesome.

Blue and Grey look to similar IMO. Green isn't far away form either also.

I think if you make blue more blue you will be okay. GJ on the rest though.

It's just a really dark blue. I'm hesitant to change it since it took some time to find. What do other people think?

You have the colour chart to look at right?

EDIT:


It is 16x16, count from left to right then down. Top Right-hand corner is 16, bottom right-hand corner is 256.

Examples:
11 = 11th from the left on the top row, Black.
253 = 4th from the right on the bottom, Bright Pink.

I do but I don't think that thing is right. For instance, for P7 I have #10 but counting from left to right it says it's blue.

I just tried it with #200 for p1 and it looks better; not as dark.

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I just made an excuse. Ignore my comment about it being hard. Really wasn't at all...this time anyways. Just tried next number up.


Anyways. I think they're quite distinguishable now.

Any chance of getting this added as an official mod?

Yeah it seems the first row skips #1 and only has 15 colors but you should still count it as 16 for colors further down. I didn't do that and was counting it as 15 and had to just go +/- a few numbers around what I thought would be a good color, which is why it probably took longer than it should.

I'm new to this modding business. Is there anything else I need to change like the way a unit looks behind buildings? I think they're slightly different due to this mod but still visible.

Edit: Grammar. Too early in the am.

It's too hard to distinguish the colors on the minimap

Not in widescreen mode it wasn't. Not for me anyways...kinda need to play a game with it to see though and I can't do that till it's an official mod. I'm sure it'll take some time getting used too period. For instance, I even thought the dark grey mod by PIN3 was P3 for a couple games till I got used to it.

You don't need it to be official for other people to use it. Just give the other people in the room a link to it.

When I launch the game from my desktop I see the colors but when I do it through voobly I don't?

Edit: Nvm got it to work. [You must login to view link]

So I played a couple games with it and decided to only change half of the player colors (1,6,7, and 8.). Otherwise it's too hard to tell the players apart.

Pic of colors: [You must login to view link]

Installation:

Place the following "Dark Colors" extracted folder into this directory.

C:\Program Files (x86)\Microsoft Games\Age of Empires II\Voobly Mods\AOC\Local Mods

Download: [You must login to view link]