Faction Colours Documentation

[Jokern]

I have researched and tested which parts of the DB that is responsible for the colours of a faction and how it works. What I've found is this:


1. Location

The necessary columns that affect the colours of all factions are in the factions_table. Here we have a lot of information for all factions, but the important rows here are 18 rows:

RGB

R1
G1
B1
(RGB1)

R2
G2
B2
(RGB2)

R3
G3
B3
(RGB3)

R4
G4
B4
(RGB4)

R5
G5
B5
(RGB5)

R6
G6
B6
(RGB6)

As you can see, the colouring in the game follows the RGB format.

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2. Use

After testing these by filling in different colours for the each version, there seem to be pairs among the RGB's.

Pairs

RGB1 and RGB2 are responsible for the colours of the faction on the campaign mini map, the armies and navies and the deployment zone border on battle maps.

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RGB3 and RGB4 doesn't seem to do anything. I'd apreciate it of someone had more info on these two.

RGB5 and RGB6 are the colours of the units, both for unit cards and icons and in battle.

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I have also discovered that:

Also Important

RGB1, RGB3 and RGB5 are for the starting colours of a faction in the campaign and for custom battles.

RGB2, RGB4 and RGB6 are for when your faction gets a revolution. The revolutionary army that spawns in your home province gets these colours. If you decide to go revolutionary and wins, everything will switch to these colours (except on the campaign mini map.)

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Even though this is the basis, you have to know some more:

If you decide to mod the colours, you must know that you'll have to mod the startpos too.

Startpos

In [CAMPAIGN_ENV/CAMPAIGN_MODEL/WORLD/FACTION_ARRAY/FACTION_ARRAY/FACTION/FACTION_FLAG_AND_COLOURS]
there are 9 rows with numbers. These are:

R1
G1
B1
R3
G3
B3
R5
G5
B5

Needs to be edited so your factions doesn't have a lot of colours when the campaign starts.

The other [FACTION_FLAG_AND_COLOURS] is for the revoltutionary part of your faction.

R2
G2
B2
R4
G4
B4
R6
G6
B6

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NOTE: I tested this by altering the colours of Sweden.

[General Brewster]

Very nicely done

[Avanquest]

Awesome! Thank you for this!