Ship landings and the Color Blind

careon · Post by **careon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:27 am

i have a way to fix this... make opening doors... have a closed door for the exit and an open door for the entrance... that or have the entrance door open able (and destroyable thus giving some small measure of def other than shields)

Constanzus · Post by **Constanzus** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:30 am

those colors give me a head ache...

Adaven · Post by **Adaven** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:34 am

great ideas, but they would require a code change. Not saying that it is impossible, merely that it could take a while and in the meantime changing the texture would be a good interim measure. But you are right, shape is definitely the best way to go and some stations already do so, Giga Tech bases, for instance, have square entrances and round exits. I'd really encourage faction designers to do something similar with any new bases they make.

Constanzas: One of those is completely untouched from the texture file. They appear much darker ingame due to lighting and shadow effects.

factoid · Post by **factoid** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:34 am

One thing that I'd like to see done to the models is setup lights that are placed away from the base to indicate a landing strip. Allegiance has the ability to make lights flash out of sync with eachother. And I was personally interested in coming up with models that had runway lights that led you to the landing door. Just don't have them for the launch bays, and then it becomes trivial to tell the difference, color blind or no. Plus it looks cool.

careon · Post by **careon** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:44 am

thats a good idea.... but why cant we have the lights "pointing" in and out /tongue.gif" style="vertical-align:middle" emoid=":P" border="0" alt="tongue.gif" />, besides its a lot better than my idea =/

rememberme · Post by **rememberme** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:46 am

OK I think I see what the problem is now that you posted those textures Ada. Those help alot.

Out of the two, I prefer the green/red, although I would think that a Green/Blue or even better Red/Blue would be better choices as they tend more toward opposing/contrast colors.

Anyways, the problem isn't neccessarily the colors (as I see the bright green quite well). The problem is the black stripes. From a distance, those stripes will get smaller and lend to an effect that darkens the colors they're next to, kinda like how a Pointillism painting works.

I think what you need to do is have less stripes and make them much broader. Then from a distance, it won't look like they blend together. i.e., the black stripes should be able to be seen from a distance.

Or better yet, don't use black in one of them. Look at the way they paint the curbs in Israel for example. There's no mistaking that yellow/red curb with the blue/white one. Also note that the stripes are evenly wide. I think that would solve all problems. You just have the pick the colors to match the look of the bases so it still looks cool.

rememberme · Post by **rememberme** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 1:50 am

factoid wrote:QUOTE (factoid @ Apr 16 2007, 06:34 PM) One thing that I'd like to see done to the models is setup lights that are placed away from the base to indicate a landing strip. Allegiance has the ability to make lights flash out of sync with eachother. And I was personally interested in coming up with models that had runway lights that led you to the landing door. Just don't have them for the launch bays, and then it becomes trivial to tell the difference, color blind or no. Plus it looks cool.

Yeah, having short runways for landings and none for launches would make a huge difference. Would look cool for something like a carrier too.

rojomojo915 · Post by **rojomojo915** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 5:00 am

I thought there was a thread a couple of months ago where someone, maybe AEM, released a solution for the color blind using yellow and blue maybe. If i find it, ill post it

Edit: here is the link to the other topic, but it seems nothing was actually released.

madpeople · Post by **madpeople** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 8:56 am

another topic
http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...showtopic=26396

there is a colour blind pack for IC bases here too
http://www.freeallegiance.org/forums/index...amp;#entry41678

WhiskeyGhost · Post by **WhiskeyGhost** » Tue Apr 17, 2007 10:20 am

not to be a smartass, but you could always leave exits colorless, that way the only colored door is the dockable one (it would make camping a little harder for inexperienced players, but solve this problem nice and easy like)