Custom minimap colours

[Rahjital]

As of now, it's impossible to give entities their own colour on minimap, everything is the same blue colour - except for belts and rails, both of which have their own. Minimap colour can already be specified for tiles, so it would be great to be able to do the same with entities.

Another thing that would be good to have is a priority property. In 10.1, trains will be drawn over rails rather than under them, and being able to choose the order in which other entities are drawn as well would be fairly useful.

[DDR]

If it's impossible to give entities custom colours, is it possible to change the colour of an entire colour? I'd love to be able to see forests on my map, but I can only make them out on desert tiles. It would be really nice to be able to set them to a lighter shade of green.

[Rahjital]

Unfortunately that's not possible either, it seems that all entity colours are hardcoded, and since the devs appear to look here only rarely, chances are it won't see this for a long time, if at all...

One workaround you can try is changing the colour of tiles to something that doesn't hide the trees as much.

[DDR]

A definite possibility. Say I wanted to change the colours of the dark ground and the normal ground - would I have to change the images themselves, or are their map colours specified in a config file somewhere?

[Rahjital]

After some more research, it seems that not only tree colours are hardcoded but also partially transparent, making the trees even harder to spot on surfaces that are not bright and contrasting to their dark green colour. Unless you are willing to give tiles some strange colours to make the trees stand out, I'm afraid there's not a way to change this by modding.

[DDR]

Oh man.. I'll guess I'll just stick to colour extraction from map view. Thanks!

[Rahjital]

Just a little bump on something I'd love to see implemented