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nordstern 1 Dec, 2023 @ 7:08am
Change Uniforms
hi,

with the new warsystems, we can see soldiers. I like this. Gives the map more life at all and more immersion.

But i hate the current uniform system. I can ignore that they look not historic correct and are generic in model. But i have a huge problem, when the soldiers were uniform colors which made no sence.

example
austria: yellow-black... historical hey weared white-red
russia: yellow... historically green-red/orange

The worst is the usa: white... only white. hat, legs, body.. white. Thats so immersion killing.

I think the reason is, that the colores are defined by the vanilla flags. The austrian flag has yellow-black, the russian is yellow and the american is white, blue, red and i think white the the main color. Changing austria to austria-hungary (white-red + hungary flag) will not change the uniform color.

Only france is a bit historical with blue-red and the ottomans.


Is their a possibility or a mod which changes this?
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I will answer you with a simple question...

You think Paradox will miss an opportunity to sell us a flavour expansion pack for Germany, Britain, USA, France, Austria, smaller German states, Commonwealth forces, Russia, etc. ?

No need for mods, it'll come by itself.

Cheers!
nordstern 10 May, 2024 @ 3:43pm 
i know... or better i hope so. But if they come and currently their are no planed (anounced) and the delux edition content goes until the end of this year. I am not sure.

I changed russia, austria and i am using a mod for germany. But we can ot change the usa because the color scheme says that the usa is white only. and the reason for this is, that the stars and red stripes are pictures and so no color at all.
StringQuartettOp5 15 Jul, 2024 @ 5:23am 
Originally posted by nordstern:
i know... or better i hope so. But if they come and currently their are no planed (anounced) and the delux edition content goes until the end of this year. I am not sure.

I changed russia, austria and i am using a mod for germany. But we can ot change the usa because the color scheme says that the usa is white only. and the reason for this is, that the stars and red stripes are pictures and so no color at all.

I feel you tho, I haven't played as Britain yet because I can't stand the actual sprite, they're a total immersion killer.

Can't wait for a flavour DLC that will tackle the uniforms...
nordstern 15 Jul, 2024 @ 12:26pm 
yea.. lets hope this.


But i do not like the way the game is going currently. Other Paradox-Titles gets game changes and expansions and later favourpacks or cultural packs. But the game currently released brazil (who wants this, if the great powers are in such a condition) and now a new mechanik. But they did not change or overhaul the existing ones.
Carolean 4 7 Aug, 2024 @ 3:28am 
It's almost certainly based on the default flag of the country. Given Sweden uses their historical blue-gold, while if you form Scandinavia they go blue-red...but I made a mod for myself to make the default Scandinavian flag to a Kalmar style one (it felt more realistic to me) and that made the Scandinavian uniforms in my game yellow.
nordstern 8 Aug, 2024 @ 4:57am 
yes... because the color of the uniforms depends on the colors of the flags. This is why the russians are yellow instead of dark green and the austrians are yellow-black and not white-red.

And this is also why the us is white. Because their flag is white only. The stripes and stars are emblems and not a color.

and the british are red, because also the rest are emblems and no color. If you change the color of the flag you can change the uniform color. But you can not change the uniform color without changing the flag.

if you want to see a flag is emblem or color you can see this in the files...
coat_of_arms/coat_of_arms

To fix this, they should implement that flag color is by default the uniform color except their is a seperate color scheme for the uniforms. So paradox can use the flags, except they add another one. Thats not much work to do...
If the made the code like an excel sheet or vba, its only changing one if-else-funktion... or if-function. If their is uniform-color than use it, if not use default scheme.
Last edited by nordstern; 8 Aug, 2024 @ 4:59am
Carolean 4 11 Aug, 2024 @ 7:26am 
Actually, for changing it, a mod that changes the flags to make their default colours the historical uniform colours and then overlays a plain background layer to cover that up would probably work.

Eg: Change the colours of the Russian flag to green and red, then put a yellow rectangle covering the entire flag between it and the remaining emblems.
nordstern 14 Aug, 2024 @ 2:29am 
I found a mod which changed the usa to blue. But i do not know currently how he made this. But he wrote it in the description.
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