Author Topic: Grey scale maps for the clipboard (Read 137 times)

MANDOBLE · « **on:** June 20, 2002, 01:47:55 AM »

I'll remember this each month until baned or implemented.
No way to see green dots with green background, no way to see red dots near red base icons. Grey scale maps for the clipboard, please. Chaging colours from setup doesn't help very much, only way is grey scale background.

straffo · « **Reply #1 on:** June 20, 2002, 03:11:04 AM »

YES ! YES ! YES !

ColorBlind united !

btw what about making fieds/strat target customisable ?

Xjazz · « **Reply #2 on:** June 20, 2002, 04:10:40 AM »

Good idea!

How about more detailed topografic map?

MANDOBLE · « **Reply #3 on:** June 20, 2002, 06:34:23 AM »

Pushing the edge even more. What do we need?
1 - Indentify what is land and what is sea for CV ops.
2 - Terrain heights.
3 - The grid and coordinates
4 - Plane dots
5 - field/factories/Hq icons
6 - Activity bars

Points 1, 2 and 3 are fixed and may be all covered in a 16 colours (4 bits without palette) singlecolor-scale bitmap. For example:

colour 1 - Darkest base colour: 0 feet (sea level)
colours 2 to 14 different base colour tones based on heights up to 13k, each one indicating 1000 feet elevation.
colour 15 - Lightest base colour for any terrain heigh above 13k.
colour 16 - black for grid and coordinates.

This way we have a map based only on terrain heights, it may be grayscale or not, but It need to use a single base colour: grey scale, blue scale, red sale or whatever doenst interfere with icons, dots, bars and grid colours. They player would be able to choose the base colour that better matches his eyes for the entire map.