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Dwarf Fortress => DF Modding => Topic started by: Ghostpaw on May 26, 2008, 12:50:00 am

Title: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Ghostpaw on May 26, 2008, 12:50:00 am: What is the difference between the COLOR tab and the FRIENDLY_COLOR tab?
Title: Re: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Ghostpaw on May 26, 2008, 01:46:00 pm: Noone has any idea huh?
Title: Re: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Morlark on May 26, 2008, 03:27:00 pm: I believe FRIENDLY_COLOR defines what colours are preferred by a race, or at least that's what the wiki suggests. I have no idea what actual effect this has. COLOR is used to set the colour of an object or creature.
Title: Re: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on May 26, 2008, 03:38:00 pm: "COLOR" is the color you see a creature in when it's out in the wild. For example, a fox would be red. FRIENDLY_COLOR is the peasant color of the race in question, for sites. For example, my kentaur peasants are brown.
Title: Re: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Ghostpaw on May 26, 2008, 04:05:00 pm: quote:
Originally posted by Sean Mirrsen:
<STRONG>"COLOR" is the color you see a creature in when it's out in the wild. For example, a fox would be red. FRIENDLY_COLOR is the peasant color of the race in question, for sites. For example, my kentaur peasants are brown.</STRONG>
Interesting. So FRIENDLY_COLOR only affects the color of the peasants of that creature? So it only really affects civ_controllable races then?
Title: Re: COLOR and FRIENDLY_COLOR
Post by: Sean Mirrsen on May 26, 2008, 04:12:00 pm: Not civ_controllable only, all civ-forming races. I am unsure whether "friendly" actually means there's a difference when you are that civ's enemy, and I lean toward "no difference".