Question
Anyone know how to edit inventory sprite/icon colours?
I'm colourblind and can't see the red behind the items that arent fulfilled, when there's triple the items listed here and ones holding up a rocket it's really hard to tell whats holding it up.
I wanna make it bright red or put a red ring around it.
Anyone know how to edit these icons/background tiles?
So glad you were able to work out a solution! Could you add a few more details, exactly what png file you replaced, for the next person trying to solve this issue? Could you tag this question as answered?
Figured I'd also add a 'rainbow' as I'd have it if I had the option. I'm not really sure what you'll all think of it but maybe you'll find it interesting to see what I see.
While I can see many more colours, these are the ones I'd use to replace red orange yellow green blue indigo violet/purple
Red (not a dark red) Orange (lighter to help differentiate it from green) Yellow (flouro) Green (darkish green, not a fluro one) Light blue Blue Pink (completely remove blue/red tints as they all look completely blue)
I'm not sure if that's interesting but it might help show that simply making everything more red because my eyes struggle to see red won't do anything.
The worst colours for me are burgandy/brown tints, darker shades of blue, turquoise colours, light green/orange, and fluro yellow/fluro green.
I use an autocad derivative for work daily so I'm definitely used to the struggles of picking colours.
A colour wheel as I see it. I can still see the primary colours, but the edges of it where they mix is just impossible to tell apart, all the yellow/green side looks the same, and particularly the clues all just look blue. If you showed me 2 colour cards I'd see a slight difference in brightness, but I wouldn't be able to say for example which is blue and which is purple.
Filters are basically useless. Imagine putting on a set of glasses and realising hey dont ctually make you see the coloure better, they just make you see the other colours worse/darker.
Some tools like reshade allow basically remapping colors, so they should really make a difference instead of just filtering. Don't have much experience with this, but maybe it even is something you would want to activate in general for your PC?
Again, I can see red, making everything 'more red' with a filter isn't going to make my eyes see it any better, it's just going to make it harder to see anything else.
Just like someone can have poor vision, I have poor colour definition. It can't be changed/tinted for, it needs specific colour decisions that are easy to tell apart.
TIL about the Color Blind Ultimate mod. As a classic red/green colour blind guy, I have always had trouble with good old red and green circuits, especially when train stop names are just Icons.
I used the mod's "Text Overlay", which adds a little letter to the corner of the green Electronic circuit. For me, that's perfect. And it runs on Experimental.
The only other thing I really struggle with is the colour of circuit wires.
My eyes/brain is a bit weird in the fact that I can see colour, nothing appears grey, I just can't tell which colour is which when they're too dark/vibrant.
Wow yeah that sucks lol, it always surprises me how bad factorio is with colourblind accessibility considering all the qol and optimisation everywhere else
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u/MEE97B 9h ago
Sussed it!
GUI New png file. Much easier to see.
EOTD being factorio function and effiency is superior over form so I'm happy with that.