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Title: colors
Post by: tatertot on May 27, 2003, 09:05:36 PM

i was thinking if all 3 counrties had different colors might make it easier to find the lines . or if it was put into each individuals hands to change them or not . you know like bish green knights red and rooks blue or something in that order .what does everyone else think good idea or bad?

Title: colors
Post by: WldThing on May 27, 2003, 09:34:59 PM

I believe thats changeable...Under Setup, Colors on your Notepad?

Im not sure about this..

Title: colors
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 27, 2003, 10:07:50 PM

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Originally posted by WldThing
I believe thats changeable...Under Setup, Colors on your Notepad?

Im not sure about this..

You can only have friendly and enemy colors.  I do wish you could select colors for each side though but it's one of those things that I can either live with or without and there's much more pressing issues and improvements that are needed before this is (if ever) implimented.


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Title: colors
Post by: Sandman on May 27, 2003, 11:44:34 PM

It might be interesting if each country had a different paint scheme.

Title: colors
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 27, 2003, 11:48:55 PM

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Originally posted by Sandman_SBM
It might be interesting if each country had a different paint scheme.

Or at least some sort of different markings.  One of the things I thought was a good idea in AW was that each side had different tail markings that corresponded with their countries color.  Since there were no icons in AW like the ones you see in AH, it was easy to tell which side was which by looking at the tails.


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Title: colors
Post by: Puke on May 28, 2003, 01:21:33 AM

I suppose that would then mean three different colored dar-bars and that would really start to clutter things up.

Title: colors
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 28, 2003, 01:31:53 AM

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Originally posted by Puke
I suppose that would then mean three different colored dar-bars and that would really start to clutter things up.

And probably the reason why we don't have it in AH.  The 'dar map in AW wasn't as cluttered as the AH 'dar map so it was never an issue in there but I can see where it would be in here.


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Title: colors
Post by: fffreeze220 on May 28, 2003, 01:43:31 AM

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
Or at least some sort of different markings.  One of the things I thought was a good idea in AW was that each side had different tail markings that corresponded with their countries color.  Since there were no icons in AW like the ones you see in AH, it was easy to tell which side was which by looking at the tails.


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They had different tail markings ?????
I never saw that lol
Do u have a picture to compare. ?

Title: colors
Post by: Flossy on May 28, 2003, 02:33:42 AM

I think that was in earlier versions (or AW Classic?) as I never saw that either..... I only started playing in 1998, and there were always icons.....  :)

Title: colors
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 28, 2003, 02:51:58 AM

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Originally posted by fffreeze220
They had different tail markings ?????
I never saw that lol
Do u have a picture to compare. ?

They had it in Classic, vertical stabilizer was colored to reflect your country color.  Could have sworn it was in AW3 too, at least the default skins.  Not sure if it could be seen if you used any custom SAC skins.


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Title: colors
Post by: Flossy on May 28, 2003, 06:51:20 AM

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Originally posted by Ack-Ack
They had it in Classic, vertical stabilizer was colored to reflect your country color.  Could have sworn it was in AW3 too, at least the default skins.  Not sure if it could be seen if you used any custom SAC skins.

I started flying in AW3 shortly before SAC came out and don't remember anything like that - but we definitely had icons at that time.  :)

Title: colors
Post by: Ack-Ack on May 28, 2003, 07:19:07 AM

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Originally posted by Flossy
I started flying in AW3 shortly before SAC came out and don't remember anything like that - but we definitely had icons at that time.  :)

I didn't fly in full screen mode in AW3/MV, so all I had were just those little number things on the edge of my screen which wasn't like the icons we have here in AH.  If I remember correctly though, in AW3 if you were in full screen you can turn on the icons like they have in here.


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Title: colors
Post by: Tabasco on May 28, 2003, 01:31:07 PM

The red and green dar bars would still be adequate if three country colors were used.  The red bar would just represent all enemies in the sector.

In AW, you could instantly tell a plane's "nationality" by the icon color.  The tail colors only showed in AW Classic or when running AW3 in "2D" mode without the skins.

Title: colors
Post by: WldThing on May 28, 2003, 03:33:48 PM

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Originally posted by Flossy
I think that was in earlier versions (or AW Classic?) as I never saw that either..... I only started playing in 1998, and there were always icons.....  :)

Yup icons were always there..Back in 98 ;)

Title: colors
Post by: moot on May 28, 2003, 06:46:23 PM

add tracers to color menu or let us choose which guns have any tracers loaded and/or how far down the stock.