Invisible text that is supposed to highlight something important

[VulcanTourist]

I exceeded the base plugin index limit in Skyrim Special Edition today (knew I had done so), and I was surprised by how Vortex chose to notify me. Can you read this with ease? Both my wife and I struggled to decipher it. I have red-green colorblindness, but she does not. I also happen to be using the "colorblind" theme, which seems a bit ironic.

[HadToRegister]

I don't have colorblindness but I cannot make out what that says, the colors are far too similar.

It looks like a teenagers MySpace Page

[VulcanTourist]

Of course it's supposed to represent the plugins count as seen in the upper right corner of the Plugins tab, but when the base limit is exceeded then the color of the text changes to this unreadable hue. "A rose by any other hue is still just a rose"... but how can you tell if you've held it up against a backdrop of the same color?

 

I tried mucking with themes for a few minutes, but could not contrive a satisfactory resolution. My resolution must be reducing the base plugin count to not exceed the limit so that the text once again becomes readable....

[HadToRegister]

Have you tried messing around with the

Brand-primary
brand-clickable
link-color

brand-warning

brand-secondary

 

and

brand-danger

color settings in Settings-->Theme

[VulcanTourist]

Have you tried messing around with the

 

Brand-primary

brand-clickable

link-color

brand-warning

brand-secondary

 

and

brand-danger

 

color settings in Settings-->Theme

That's the mucking that I was attempting, but I didn't spend much time at it because Vortex was in one of its sluggish unresponsive moods, making me wait for an exceedingly narrow window for it to acknowledge clicks, and I gave up.

[rmm200]

Vortex is not supposed to have "sluggish unresponsive moods". I for one have never seen that. Most things Vortex does are pretty quick.

If your mod set has 50,000 files or so - that may take awhile to check for conflicts.

Check your Vortex log. There may be something fixable there.

[Pickysaurus]

That says "Active: 255 Light: 256".

 

I'm not sure how you have so many plugins but you have too many non-light ESP/ESM plugins. You should disable at least 2-3 of them to correct that error.

 

It's definitely not readable though. I think we should perhaps add a warning icon instead of changing the text colour.

[VulcanTourist]

That says "Active: 255 Light: 256".

 

I'm not sure how you have so many plugins but you have too many non-light ESP/ESM plugins. You should disable at least 2-3 of them to correct that error.

As I said, I knew that I had exceeded the limit even before I saw that the text had become invisible: I was actually looking for how Vortex would choose to notify me that I had exceeded the limit, and that is when I noticed it.

 

I know precisely what I need to do to correct it, but I was at the moment more interested in "getting mods into the list" and working out the issue later. At this point I've ESP-FE'd all the easy choices, I'm not yet comfortable with compacting FormIDs to Lighten more, and I'm dead-set against having to merge any mods and create a maintenance mess. There might be a small number that I can consign to the wastebasket; I'm in the midst of a between-games reevaluation.

 

It's definitely not readable though. I think we should perhaps add a warning icon instead of changing the text colour.

A big - flashing? - warning icon next to it, and/or an explicit notification, would definitely be preferable. The text color change has to survive thematic changes, which is more difficult to guarantee unless the text has its own background color independent of the theme's background. That is, I suppose, another option.

 

Vortex is not supposed to have "sluggish unresponsive moods". I for one have never seen that. Most things Vortex does are pretty quick.

If your mod set has 50,000 files or so - that may take awhile to check for conflicts.

Check your Vortex log. There may be something fixable there.

This behavior has been developing over some weeks; it might be getting progressively worse. It's not restricted to working with mods or Deployment, as demonstrated by this episode when it was unresponsive while I was trying to alter the theme. In fact, it seems to be UI-related and might be occurring at any time other than Deployment.

 

I have not yet taught myself to check Vortex's log, but that is a wise idea.

 

At the moment, I'm editing the "Colorblind" theme to make it more effective, by copying the color choices of Contrast into it (it resolves the OP issue for me). Contrast seems to have been adapted from Compact, and while I might prefer the denser lists I don't prefer the pop-out menu icons text of those two themes.