Any way to list enemy ships?

[tbontob]

Originally posted by Krsqk:
It's probably more practical to just put a white dot on each ship, or to do a flood fill in white around the ship. If you turn them into actual white boxes, it's kinda hard to tell what size they are. You may also want to go into the shipset's Main.bmp and change the empire color (sets the color of the numerals which indicate how many ships there are in a sector, among other things).

Krsqk

As a newbie, I started 4 PBW games at once, all of them with Cue Cappa.

The problem is that the color of Cue Cappa is deep purple which blends in with the black background of the screen.

I'd very much like to change the color so I can read the numerals.

I went into the Cue Cappa's Main.bmp and found some icons in the middle of the screen.

What do I do now?

I am a utter Newbie at this and have no idea what to do.

[PvK]

Load it in a paint program (e.g. Start/Accessories/Paint) to load the file, blow up the view so you can easily work with pixels, and then color in all the dark purple with a lighter purple, or whatever color you want.

PvK

[PvK]

Actually though, the Cue Cappa look pretty bright to me - you might just want to adjust the brightness and contrast on your monitor...

[PvK]

If you want to edit the file, and you have a program [such as Photoshop or MS Photo Editor (comes with some Versions of Office)] which allows changing the "Gamma" of the image, that can also easily make it brighter in one simple step.

Of course, if you like the images but just want to brighten the digits and text, you can just brighten the plain rectangle (second position from left, bottom half).

PvK

[tbontob]

Thanks PvK

It worked.

Now I can tell if I have a resupply depot at a planet or not!

What are the other icons used for?

[PvK]

Glad to help.

The first two are big and small flags for the "presence" and owner ID indicators when a unit is spotted in a system, or examined, for example, or when flags are shown for combat dialogs, etc.

Next is the generic seeker image (for organic parasites, for example). Then the CSM seeker image. Then the plasma missile image.

PvK

[PvK]

The complete spec is at http://www.malfador.com/se4/se4race.html .

PvK