How to modify diplomacy map mode colours?

[angusmachaggis]

I am very mildly red-green colourblind but I am having very serious difficulties seeing tributaries, feudatory, and client states on the diplomacy map mode. The overlay colour is just far too subtle and indistinguishable from the base territory colour. It's a huge headache and really makes the game unplayable in certain situations.

I have had a look in the map_modes.txt file but can't find any part of the diplomacy map mode that obviously controls the overlay colours or their rgb values.

Where should I be looking to find these? And maybe someone could be kind enough to tell me the name of the property I should be looking to change?

 

[Nyjene]

I am very mildly red-green colourblind but I am having very serious difficulties seeing tributaries, feudatory, and client states on the diplomacy map mode. The overlay colour is just far too subtle and indistinguishable from the base territory colour. It's a huge headache and really makes the game unplayable in certain situations.

I have had a look in the map_modes.txt file but can't find any part of the diplomacy map mode that obviously controls the overlay colours or their rgb values.

Where should I be looking to find these? And maybe someone could be kind enough to tell me the name of the property I should be looking to change?

You will find the colours in common/defines/graphics. The file is 00_graphics.txt (should be the only file in the folder).
Find the bracket named "NMapColors".

However, I don't see how to change the colours of subject type, only dependencies. You could still try to tweek around.

Additionally, you could try to change the values of the gradients to make the color less blend and more vivid.

All in all... welcome to the boat of colourblindness.

 

[Cheexsta]

Should be in \common\defines\graphic\00_graphics.txt, under NMapColors.

Work out the HSV value of the colour you want to use (you can use a tool like https://www.selecolor.com/en/hsv-color-picker/), divide the first number by 360 and the other two numbers by 100, and enter those values (separated by a tab) into that text file.

For example, if you want vassals etc to be a deep blue instead of cyan, you could replace the DIPLOMACY_DEPENDENCY_COLOR values like this:

    DIPLOMACY_DEPENDENCY_COLOR =         { 0.652    0.961    0.76    }

Edit: beaten to it while testing!