Text Color in Civ2

[Harry Tuttle]

Alright, dumb question, but can the text color in the game be changed. The grey with shadows doesn't show up well on one of my new backgrounds.

[Mercator]

Only by changing those colours in the civ2 palette (in the units.gif). But that will affect all your graphics, obviously, so you'll need to be careful.

[Harry Tuttle]

Well I meant the actual window titles. And don't you mean the cities.gif for city names? I've never heard of the units.gif having any bearing on text color.

[Boco]

This is dangerous, talking about something that I haven't played with, but what the heck. No, I don't think Merc is referring to the pixels in cities.gif. Allard talks a little about this topic in The Palette Explained.

Text in the top border of all pop-up boxes is actually the UNITS.GIF's palette 16, with a shadow of palette 0. Some text (like "viewing pieces" on the right) is made of palette number 31 with a shadow -again- of number 0 Most other text is palette 6 with a shadow of palette number 23.

So swap out the colors that Allard refers to in the Units.gif palette, and you can alter some of the text colors.
[IMG]file://localhost/C:/GAMES/MPS/Zip/Tips/sl_palet.gif[/IMG]
If I understand this correctly, Allard's altered those palette entries for this figure. If I don't, you'll be quickly informed otherwise.
[IMG]file://localhost/C:/GAMES/MPS/Zip/Tips/sl_paley.gif[/IMG]

[Mercator]

Yep, that's what I meant.

[Harry Tuttle]

Alright, awesome, it works. Thanks guys!