This zipfile contains an .xml file called playercolors and a text document with a listing of the default player colors.
Unzip this file somewhere easy to use (desktop)
The text document "Default Player Colors" simply lists the color given to each player number.
The .xml file "playercolors" is that file that you will edit. Right click on this file, and select "open with". Choose either notepad or wordpad and you will see a text document of the player numbers followed by a color configuration.
How to change color:While viewing in notepad or wordpad
simply switch the player numbers.
Example: I like player 11's color Dark Grey better than Blue (use the text document to view what player has what color)so I simply change the player #1 to an 11 and #11 to a 1. You can also change the actual hue numbers to get different shades and stuff. After you've got the players with the color you want, click on file and select save. Put this file in the data subfolder of the Age of Mythology folder. You can change the file back to original settings or whatever setting you chose from in it's new location.
To disable file:Once you've run the game with this file in the data folder, a backup file called playercolors.xmb will be made. Be sure to delete both the playercolors.xml and the playercolors.xmb to get rid of the settings. This only needs to be done if you want the files deleated for good. Otherwise you can just change the settings in the .xml to the orginals and it will resume the default setting colors.
Additional Comments:
Thank you! This works quite nicely, even if you have to reboot AOM to change color. You can get really sick of playing as dark blue.
dean340
Posted on 11/18/02 @ 02:51 PM
Rating: 5
Thank you...I hate being blue!
Additional Comments:
does this affect multiplayer games?
[Edited on 03/01/08 @ 06:22 PM]
Darien
Posted on 12/20/02 @ 04:27 PM
Rating
5.0
Very nice. I was looking for this sort of thing.
Peredhil
Posted on 07/04/03 @ 03:26 PM
Rating
5.0
Rating: 5
Very useful little tool.
Additional Comments:
I much prefer that grey colour. Thankyou so much for adding a little more variety into my game.
Philip_8333
Posted on 07/13/03 @ 10:04 AM
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Philip_8333
Posted on 07/13/03 @ 10:08 AM
I like this site before you haves athe big utilitis
Philip_8333
Posted on 07/13/03 @ 10:10 AM
Me I like much the utility for me it is much useful.
[Edited on 03/01/08 @ 06:21 PM]
DeafPride_Fang
Posted on 12/08/03 @ 05:23 PM
At last! I have found the saver! :p
This is great.
Celer
Posted on 02/20/04 @ 08:43 PM
This finally worked on my cpu!!!
I;m soo happy
[Edited on 05/11/04 @ 06:55 AM]
Pascal9872
Posted on 03/04/04 @ 02:20 PM
Rating
5.0
Rating: 5
(Insert Rating analysis here)
Does exactly what it says. Very easy to use. I'd recommend this to anyone that wants some color variation in their civs.
Additional Comments: Not sure what the guy before me means, there is no read me file and the explanation given above is quite straight forward.
Posted on 11/14/02 @ 12:21 AM