Wire color selection

[Chthon]

Instead of having green/red wire, which for me look the same no matter which color vision setting I choose, why not let the player select which color each wire is from a set of 8 or 16 colors?

Honestly, looking at the resource files, there isn't any reason why you have 4 different wire pictures anyways. Having one where when read in it creates 4 copies in memory, one for copper, wire color 1, wire color 2, and wire highlighted respectively would be more efficient, and very fast. Further more it would allow for fast color selection in the menu for wire color 1 and wire color 2 as well.

This is a feature that was requested over 2 years ago in a color vision mega thread, and provided by mod, but honestly there is no reason to disable Steam achievements over such a feature as simply changing a few pngs to have a different color. Furthermore since wire color is not helped at all by color blind settings, something should be done here to assist.

Edit: I missed one wire png. There is Wire-shadow.png which is a black wire. My bad. There are 5 wire pngs of different color.

This bad practice isn't just for wires, but for other images in the game as well. You have different colored squares of the same size, different colored + of the same size. Storing each of these makes no sense as you can use one and change it during caching. It just makes the download longer, and add redundancy when needing to make changes to the UI.

You can also rotate, resize, and flip icons with OpenCV if you are not using it, but my guess is that you are already using OpenCV to load images. Since that is the case, why you aren't fully utilizing it, baffles me.

[Tranzalore]

They could also fix the other Icons that have colour blind issues at the same time, but I agree that picking wire colours is the most important change to make. There are mods that change wire colours but they disable achievments, so it would be great to get these changes into the base game.

Here is the list of icons I struggle with as someone with red/green colour blindness (8% of men and 0.5% of women)

• Light oil, Heavy Oil, Lubricant (Heavy oil I can tell the difference when next to the others but do not know what it is when by its self)

• Logistics science pack, Utility science Pack (These are exactly the same)

• Metallurgic science pack, Agricultural science pack (the shading on the metallurgic science pack is a tiny bit darker but the rest is the same)

• Normal belts, Turbo Belts (not a big issues as you are usually ussing all red or blue belts by the time you get turbo belts and the animation once placed is verry different)

• Stone, Copper icons(copper is darker than stone but they are the same colour, which makes them hard to tell without making the icon large)

• Stone,Copper ore patches (the ones in the normal game view have the same problem as the icons, however they are reversed so the stone patch matches the copper icon and the copper patch matches the stone icon. The ones from the map view are different enough)

Yes, I have tried the built in colour blind mode in graphics settings. It helps a tiny amount with telling the oils/lubricants apart and with the stone/copper but not really enough of a difference to be worth talking about.