Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

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Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

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Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap.
For example: The configuration of Enemies as bright blue rather than what appears to me as a dull red.
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I am Red-Green colorblind. There are several other kinds, and whilst my own version of this is not as bad as for some, it can make some things quit inconvenient or difficult.
What does this have to do with Factorio?
Color-blindness can make it very difficult to see certain colors against certain backgrounds especially on the map (and minimap)
What ?
It would be really helpful to me if it were possible to alter the colors of various things (Entities I think) as they are rendered on these maps.

I would use this initially to render the biters in something like Bright-blue.
Why ?
We color-blind are certainly a minority of your player-base, but this would make our lives much easier.
The existing maps are far from useless, but imagine if you had to strain to make out enemies on those maps. How would this impact your game?

Thank you very much for your time and consideration.
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Re: Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

Post by Bilka »

I'm an admin over at https://wiki.factorio.com. Feel free to contact me if there's anything wrong (or right) with it.
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Re: Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

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Many thanks Bilka.
That is mostly very useful indeed.

I say 'mostly' because unfortunately it is not yet updated for 1.1.
Obviously this (1.1) is an experimental build at the current time and with luck it will be updated in time.

It certainly looks like it would suit my needs.

I would ask however that the devs consider making this a first class (native) feature, if for no other reason, than this situation is likely to crop up again and again in future and it would be good if accessibility did not rely on a 3rd party for it's updates.

That said... My thanks once again Bilka. I will watch this plugin closely hoping that it is updated.
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Re: Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

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On closer inspection this mod does not appear to have a facility to recolor enemies

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Re: Allow customisation of Colors used for entities on the Map and MiniMap

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I encourage the original poster to get into modding. What is badly needed is people with visual impairments who can mod the game and bring their own experience to bear on it. Something like tweaking map colours would be a nice introduction to simple mod creation.
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