How do I change colours of capes, tunics and crests?

**Darklorder** · September 16, 2013, 10:34 AM

Hey guys,

just wanted to know how to change the colours of capes, tunics and crests?
I don't get it with the "mask" thing, sometimes it changes colour sometimes not...
So how do you guys change the colours of your units?

Thx

Best wishes

Darklorder

**Ishan** · September 16, 2013, 11:19 AM

Please use mod workshop for asking such questions. Thread moved from mod threads section to mod workshop section.

**Darklorder** · September 16, 2013, 01:51 PM

okay sorry

**Darklorder** · September 17, 2013, 02:37 AM

Nobody got a tutorial or something?

**Darklorder** · September 17, 2013, 03:29 PM

All good things are 3 so...
Plesse someone would explain and/or give a link how to change colours of The capes?

**Zaskar70** · September 17, 2013, 05:44 PM

Each faction has a primary, secondary and tertiary colour associated with it.

You can find these colours in the "data_rome2.pack" under "db" / "factions_uniforms_colours_tables" / "factions_uniforms_colours".

The colours are divided by their RGB code in columns , for example if you wanted a factions primary colour to be white you would enter 255 under Primary R, Primary G, and Primary B and you would get white since the RGB code for white is 255 255 255.

Each Variantdefinition for an item of clothing, cape, shield etc can have a colour mask associated with that specific variant of the item.

You can find the variantdefinition files for equipment in the "models_rome2.pack" under "variantmeshes" / "_variantmodels" / "man".

The masks tell the game what colour if any to paint that specific variant of the equipment based on the "factions_uniforms_colours" table.

Mask0="1" is for secondary colour, mask0="2" is for tertiary, mask0="3" primary.

An example below of the variantdefinition file of some shields that I have told the game to colour using the factions secondary colour. Notice I have placed a colour mask after each entry, this unit uses 3 of the same shields with different looks, like dings shield bosses etc, I highlighted where I placed the mask in red.

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**Darklorder** · September 18, 2013, 03:20 PM

Woah in the end someone

thx a lot now i got some more understanding in this whole thing.
I try it out tomorrow. But how can I change a colour if i want to use another colour than a primary, secondary and tertiary colour of a faction? maybe an example: I have the praetorian cape on Royal Spartans and want it to be green and yellow. So what how will i know what masks to use?

Thx again you made a nice example. But you said different looks on the shields? But they got all the same name?

**Zaskar70** · September 18, 2013, 04:31 PM

In order to have the the spartans use the cloak without assigning a primary,secondary, or tertiary color to it via mask you would have to create a new cloak variantmeshdefinition file, for example:

take "praetorian_cloak.variantmeshdefinition", extract it, rename it "spartan_cloak.variantmeshdefinition", after that you would need to get into colouring the .DDS files using photoshop or gimp.

Since your new to modding I would suggest getting the hang of moving things around among units etc before jumping into creating new texture's.

**Darklorder** · September 19, 2013, 01:55 AM

K big THX, so i cant go around the dds files for colouring. Now i know with what Programm i have to open the files.
Thx again for your time. I will take use of your good explanations and make the beste out of it

Best wishes
Darklorder

**pajomife** · September 19, 2013, 08:26 AM

There are some color mods,can I use one to try it? In a quick words explain how can I change the hastai to grey,plz.

**Zaskar70** · September 19, 2013, 01:37 PM

Originally Posted by pajomife

There are some color mods,can I use one to try it? In a quick words explain how can I change the hastai to grey,plz.

The hastati's tunic under their chestplate will use the primary and tertiary colours that are listed in the "data_rome2.pack" file under "db" / "faction_uniform_colours_tables" /" faction_uniform_colours". you would need to change the primary and tertiary colours for "rom_rome" faction.

Just remember it will affect all the other roman units as well.