ZeCherrys Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 Hi everyone,I have a request for a mod that I think would be usefull for a lot of people (including me^^). Being colorblind, I stuggle with differentiating dark red and black. And thats exactely the color used for the enemy HP bars... So it's very difficult for me to see how much life an enemy has left... I also stuggled with a red text on a black background warning me of low supplies, but it only occured once.Would it be possible to make a mod that changes the health bar color for colorblind people like? Btw, what do you guys think of the heath bar design in this game? I think regardless of the color, it's design is less practical than the one from the previous xcom game, where HP would be one rows of five, making it very easy to see exactely how much HP was left. Maybe some of you are already planing on making a mod to improve the heath bar readability, and could take the color blind people into account :DAnyway, thank in advance if any of you takes some time for that! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilarium Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 +1 While I lucked out and the dark red and black from the color bar aren't in my bad range, I fully agree with you. That's the tricky bit with color blindness, there are so many different versions and ranges that people can have that it's hard for a developer to get everything. Hopefully someone someone will be able to tweak them quickly! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joshuahoeth Posted February 7, 2016 Share Posted February 7, 2016 I almost think a small Number above the Health bar should also display it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zeropathic Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 Even for those of us who aren't colour blind, the health bars become a pain to read once enemies have around ten or more health. Something like what League of Legends does (example: http://i.imgur.com/ygqKdrp.png) would be great, with some sort of indicator for every five points of health or so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jgbaxter Posted February 8, 2016 Share Posted February 8, 2016 This might help; http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=617015579&searchtext= Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tilarium Posted February 9, 2016 Share Posted February 9, 2016 Been using it sense it popped up on the workshop. Love this mod, something so simple but makes playing to much easier. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZeCherrys Posted February 9, 2016 Author Share Posted February 9, 2016 This might help; http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=617015579&searchtext= Awesome, thanks for the heads up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakous79 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 I've started working on this. Only colors, nothing new. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Perraine Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 A colour palette option for the HuD and UI seems like it should have been an option from the start really, it's something that many, many games have incorporated into them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Drakous79 Posted March 12, 2016 Share Posted March 12, 2016 (edited) Agreed. Unfortunately it would require to recreate some swf movies as well. When a player aims at alien, there is a preview showing possible damage at enemy's health meter. Accessing such swf animation from scripts is out of my current knowledge. I am changing swf at hex level and will provide human readible configurable mod file. Well, human readible, except for health meter animation's color definitions, whose are bit packed and one have to play with binary values to set them right :smile: Edited March 12, 2016 by Drakous79 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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