Team "colors" for colorblind people

the_revenant · Post by **the_revenant** » November 4th, 2007, 7:45 pm

I was aware that colour-blindness only affected greens and reds.

I dont think it as severe as Viliam's first diagram. Though i may be wrong, but i still think this is a good idea

Post by **thespaceinvader** » November 4th, 2007, 7:46 pm

Red-green is the most common (I think), but there are many kinds of colour blindness affecting many different colours.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_blindness

Post by **irrevenant** » November 4th, 2007, 9:26 pm

Since Viliam's initial diagram, star-shaped ellipses are now used to indicate hero units so it's not practical anyway.

I think the best option is probably a variant of

. I'll have a play and see if I can make it a bit more elegant-looking.

the_revenant · Post by **the_revenant** » November 4th, 2007, 10:02 pm

Would perhaps a letter to represent the colour be practical?

e.g. R ed
B lue
G reen etc.

Simply put the letters like you have done with the numbers

Post by **thespaceinvader** » November 4th, 2007, 10:05 pm

Blue

Brown

Pink

Purple

Problem =P

Team numbers work better.

the_revenant · Post by **the_revenant** » November 4th, 2007, 10:08 pm

Oh i see what he was doing now. Sorry i got confused thinking that the numbers represented the colours, when actually they represented the teams.

Yes that is a much better idea

Post by **Urs** » November 5th, 2007, 1:41 am

Yeah, the numbers look like a good idea. But wouldn't some units cover the numbers? Are any units that big? Maybe the numbers should be layered on top of everything else so that it's clear.

Post by **Boucman** » November 5th, 2007, 6:01 pm

units can't cover the numbers since the numbers are part of the ellipsis, which is drawn "after" the unit

Thumper · Post by **Thumper** » November 5th, 2007, 6:10 pm

the_revenant wrote:Would perhaps a letter to represent the colour be practical?

e.g. R ed
B lue
G reen etc.

Simply put the letters like you have done with the numbers

"and for those of you who are watching in black and white, the pink is next to the green."

- Chris

Post by **irrevenant** » November 5th, 2007, 9:56 pm

the_revenant wrote:Oh i see what he was doing now. Sorry i got confused thinking that the numbers represented the colours, when actually they represented the teams.

Actually, there is an argument for writing the colour given that all the chatter will be about "the red team" and "the green team". Noone I know says "It's team 3's move".

I'd say there's room there for two letters (Rd,Gr,Bl) or maybe even 3 (Red,Gre,Blu).

I dunno, what do you think?

irrevenant wrote:I'll have a play and see if I can make it a bit more elegant-looking.

Actually, the more I look at it, the less I think it needs tweaking. It needs antialiasing, and I might prefer a square rather than a circle around the number, but that's about it.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » November 5th, 2007, 10:16 pm

Maybe have numbers in the ellipse and write the team name (red green blue etc) in the righthand side blurb about the unit.

the_revenant · Post by **the_revenant** » November 5th, 2007, 10:50 pm

How about having the name of the colour in the margin with th rest of the unit info, and different shapes for the mini map as a quick refernce? Though that might prove tricky to define each one unless you make the mini map bigger.

Post by **thespaceinvader** » November 5th, 2007, 11:16 pm

Mm, the mini map's another struggle altogether...

Post by **irrevenant** » November 6th, 2007, 4:44 am

thespaceinvader wrote:Mm, the mini map's another struggle altogether...

There's basically nothing we can do there, artwise - those dots are only 4x4 pixels. There'd need to be a hotkey to brighten a particular team's dots or something.

P.S. I tinkered with the graphics for the numbers, and the more I played with it, the more it converged on Viliam's original combined with the new ellipse. So that seems like the way to go...

DDR · Post by **DDR** » November 6th, 2007, 5:25 am

Of course, the way to test this is to use one of those old monochrome cathode-ray tube monitors...

... woah. That could work.