Solutions to color-blindness with mods

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Seckel

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Hello,

This thread is dedicated to offering alternatives to people with color-blindness. If you find a mod that uses colours that you cannot see clearly feel free to reply to this topic and I will try and come up with a solution.

Below are some solutions that already exist:

- Thermal Expansion - Machines:

In the config folder there is a folder called cofh, and within this there is a config file called 'ThermalExpansion.cfg'.
Within this file you will find this:

general {
B:ColorBlindTextures=false

change this to this if you have difficulty with the colors for the thermal expansion machines.

general {
B:ColorBlindTextures=true


- Buildcraft - Diamond Pipes:

For these I changed the GUI to show the direction that the color is found on. For instance, the black row has a 'D' on it to explain that the black part of a diamond pipe always faces downwards.

The replaced GUI can be found here:
http://imgur.com/OgUedD6

Once downloaded firstly you must rename it to 'filter.png'.

Next, go to your mods folder. Then open your buildcraft.jar file with a file archiver like WinRAR.
Navigate to '\gfx\buildcraft\gui' . Next drag and drop the downloaded GUI (filter.png) and drop it into this folder. It will ask you something along the lines of "Would you like to replace this file?" and just choose yes. Congratulations, the color-blind GUI will now be ingame!

Eventually, I hope that Buildcraft will add its own color-blind option, similar to Thermal Expansion. This post will hopefully raise the awareness of this issue for many players (including myself).


I hope this post will help people who have color-blindness. :)

Quick Update: I have requested that the colors are changed on Buildcraft Diamond Pipes for both the pipe itself and the GUI, you can see this GitHub Issue here: https://github.com/BuildCraft/BuildCraft/issues/1176

If you can comment on it, it would be greatly appreciated. ;)

Seckel[DOUBLEPOST=1377786223][/DOUBLEPOST]Some people have suggested ender tank colouring, so I will be coming up with a solution for this.
 

draeath

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Bees. The interfaces (especially the one that shows just the bee icon with no text) are likely terrible for this. I'm not colorblind myself but I have family that is, so I could see some problems - especially those with the red/green deficiency.
 

Seckel

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Bees. The interfaces (especially the one that shows just the bee icon with no text) are likely terrible for this. I'm not colorblind myself but I have family that is, so I could see some problems - especially those with the red/green deficiency.


you mean the colors of bees themselves? or the bee machines/ apiaries etc?
 

draeath

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The outlines and color schemes for the bee icons, specifically. I can't think of any of the machines having potential issues, though.
 

netmc

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The outlines and color schemes for the bee icons, specifically. I can't think of any of the machines having potential issues, though.


I am not color blind, but I will say the outline for the bees themselves have never been particularly useful. I still can't tell many of the bees apart at a glance. I actually have to mouse over the bee and read the text for the most part. I could see an improvement being made for the apiarist database to use different icons, especially for the "discovered species" icon as that one drives me crazy the most. Not sure how one would go about fixing the regular bee icons. With extra bees and magic bees in the mix, there are over 200 different bee types!

I will say however, that the backgrounds in the escritore could definitely use some fixing. I have a hard time telling the colors apart with certain combinations. I would gladly drop in a background replacement for those... I'll take a look and see if there is an actual background image used for those or if it is generated on the fly with just color codes.
 

draeath

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You could assign a code and drop that on the image? Even if the code is incomprehensible in and of itself, it serves to make them unique. I don't see a very good way around it either, TBH - all I can do is say the existing way doesn't really work.
 

Seckel

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I am not color blind, but I will say the outline for the bees themselves have never been particularly useful. I still can't tell many of the bees apart at a glance. I actually have to mouse over the bee and read the text for the most part. I could see an improvement being made for the apiarist database to use different icons, especially for the "discovered species" icon as that one drives me crazy the most. Not sure how one would go about fixing the regular bee icons. With extra bees and magic bees in the mix, there are over 200 different bee types!

I will say however, that the backgrounds in the escritore could definitely use some fixing. I have a hard time telling the colors apart with certain combinations. I would gladly drop in a background replacement for those... I'll take a look and see if there is an actual background image used for those or if it is generated on the fly with just color codes.


If you can come up with a fix, I will definitely add it to the topic in the original post :),
but if you can't I'l take a look myself too. I haven't really used the escritoire much so far..[DOUBLEPOST=1377809895][/DOUBLEPOST]


Hehe I asked CovertJaguar in IRC :p, I submitted an issue for it (Now in the original post).
 

Vaygrim

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I am very colorblind, hence my love of Thermal Expansion. If BuildCraft / RailCraft / Forestry / anyone else would add similar options for colorblind people, I would really love it.
 

Seckel

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Update: I am going to start working on a Color-blind texture pack for modded minecraft. If you are interested in being a colorblind tester (checking if the textures are suitable), or a texture pack designer please tweet me a message @MCSeckel
I am also going to make a forum thread for the texture pack itself in the texture pack section and I will link it here too.
 

Bevo

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Woot! Thanks for talking to the BC guys and getting the config option added to Buildcraft. :)