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A minimal mod that replaces the default player colors with a more practical color scheme. The Problem The default player colors in 0 A.D. have several issues:     Too many similar color options (hard to distinguish enemies at a glance)     Colors are dependent of host settings (creates inconsistency)     Some colors are overly bright/neon (unrealistic, visually aggressive) The Fix This mod provides a clean, simplified color palette that:     Reduces color choices to only essential, distinct shades     Improves distinguishability - no more confusing similar blues or greens     Standardizes colors - consistent for all players regardless of host     Tones down brightness - realistic, non-aggressive colors     Changes nothing else - tiny codebase, easy to maintain across game versions Why It Matters Here's a real scenario that shows why this mod is needed: You're playing as a blue-toned civilization. You're attacked by two enemies - one with a similar blue tone and one red. The red enemy holds 30% of capture points, the blue enemy holds 20%. You miss the blue enemy entirely because their color is too similar to yours, while the aggressive red tricks you into thinking the threat is only 30%. By the time you realize the real danger, it's too late. Why not another color mod There are several other color mods. Some offer 16 color changes, the more colors the less distinct they can be. Some touch areas one might not be interested in. I had issues with the others and ended up making this. The python script is there if you want to replicate it with a different approach and a picture with the background blurred to show how I got the backgrounds. I started with the the tableau colors that I know and like from matplotlib. Install by putting the zip in the right folder: On Windows (Vista or newer): C:\Users\{name_of_user}\Documents\My Games\0ad\mods\ On OSX: ~/Library/Application Support/0ad/mods/ On Linux: ~/.local/share/0ad/mods/ (may be found in GUI via Home/.local/share/0ad/mods/) color_by_distance.py ffm_simple_colors.zip

Just what I was needing, thank you very much!

Thank You very much!

It's available : https://gitlab.com/4trik/ModernGUI . Since I've introduced a some of new things, and the mod is pretty fat with so many options, It's in bug discovery phase right now (I don't know of any bugs nor any been reported at this time). I'll make a post when I'll have more confidence. If you do try it and find anything you can report it to me.  

I assume a lot more work still to go to make ModernGUI 28 compatible? Absolutely feel naked playing w/o it