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DoomRL => Requests For Features => Topic started by: Drukqs on July 24, 2009, 12:21

Title: Change the color of the double shotgun!
Post by: Drukqs on July 24, 2009, 12:21

It blends in with Pistols way too easily. How about orange?

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Generic on July 24, 2009, 17:31

You're complaining about the double shotgun looking like pistols, but shotguns and pistols look completely different to you?/me is confused

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Drukqs on July 25, 2009, 03:49

Not all shotguns -- the double shotgun. When it's lying on the ground it's pure white, but the pistol is almost white too... it's a very light gray, which is extremely confusing when you're specifically searching for the double shotgun.

An orange-ish brown color (to represent the classic polished wooden stock) would make perfect sense. The combat shotgun is bright blue, and 99.9% of all combat shotguns have a black finish, I've never seen a blue combat shotgun, so why can't the double shotgun be a wooden color?

Here is an unmodified zoomed in comparison of the pistol and the double shotgun:

(http://i28.tinypic.com/30l1dl0.png)

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Kornel Kisielewicz on July 25, 2009, 05:57

Adjust console color settings to make lightgray darker.

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Drukqs on July 25, 2009, 06:02

Ah! I'll try that, thank you.

EDIT: When I change the color of Screen Text, it works until I move and then the pistols reset to their normal color, the text at the top and bottom however does not.

Here's a screenshot: http://i25.tinypic.com/zwkug4.png

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Generic on July 25, 2009, 07:42

Quote from: Drukqs on July 25, 2009, 03:49

Not all shotguns -- the Double Shotgun. When it's lying on the ground it's pure white, but the pistol is almost white too... it's a very light gray, which is extremely confusing when you're specifically searching for a Double Shotgun.

Here's the thing. In GNOME's terminal, double shotguns are bold white, shotguns bold grey. Therefore, Linux wins yet again. :P

Edit: Looked at the Windows terminal screenshot. Jeez, that's an ugly terminal! D:

Title: Re: Change the color of the Double Shotgun!
Post by: Vestin on July 25, 2009, 18:53

Quote from: Generic on July 25, 2009, 07:42

Here's the thing. In GNOME's terminal, double shotguns are bold white, shotguns bold grey. Therefore, Linux wins yet again. :P

Edit: Looked at the Windows terminal screenshot. Jeez, that's an ugly terminal! D:

Listen: being a Linux fanboy is like being gay - you REALLY don't have to show it off all the time for us to get the point.

Title: Re: Change the color of the double shotgun!
Post by: Krok on August 15, 2009, 13:30

I think that weapons should use different characters. There are not enough colors to make difference between all of them at first glance, a yellow } could be anything.

Quite minor though.