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Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-02 19:53:37
August 02 2012 19:39 GMT
#41
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.
ok
Blazinghand *
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
United States25560 Posts
August 02 2012 19:43 GMT
#42
I'm glad a workaround for stronger color was found. Not quite as elegant-looking as the previous mod, but if it works, it works

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TheChostoProject
Profile Joined May 2010
Mexico96 Posts
August 02 2012 19:52 GMT
#43
I just cant play ZvZ without team colored banelings.
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NeMeSiS3
Profile Blog Joined February 2012
Canada2972 Posts
August 02 2012 19:59 GMT
#44
On August 03 2012 04:39 LgNKami wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.


I don't think you really understand its purpose... "facepalm"
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FeyFey
Profile Joined September 2010
Germany10114 Posts
August 02 2012 20:28 GMT
#45
must be to hard to force players to choose red and yellow in sc2, worked in every game before. Kind of glad the mod is gone (hated those non green banelings), but i can understand why a few people needed it. But if a tournament or people really want to have the stronger team colors, it is still doable, just not on ladder.
baldgye
Profile Joined April 2011
United Kingdom1108 Posts
August 02 2012 21:13 GMT
#46
from the screen shots provided, it dsnt actually seem to do what the colour mod did at all, and it seems a little insulting to lable them as the same, all this seems to do is jack up the contrast...

I'm not going to be able to even patch to 1.5 for at least another few weeks, but blizz have totally fucked alot of its community again with this update that totaly fucks all the modding tools that have helped make sc2 a better game
Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-02 21:27:14
August 02 2012 21:26 GMT
#47
from the screen shots provided, it dsnt actually seem to do what the colour mod did at all, and it seems a little insulting to lable them as the same, all this seems to do is jack up the contrast...

Not contrast, it's just saturation. Yes, it can't provide 100% exact same result as STC, but as I said in 1st post, it's what we can have now in 1.5.0 with no more modding at all

I'm not going to be able to even patch to 1.5 for at least another few weeks, but blizz have totally fucked alot of its community again with this update that totaly fucks all the modding tools that have helped make sc2 a better game

And allowed some cheating, like visible nuke dots, bigger selection for small units (HT for example) or visible stealth units
Morton
Profile Joined July 2012
United States152 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-02 21:32:49
August 02 2012 21:32 GMT
#48
I know a lot of people think STC and this is "ugly"

but personally I think it looks cool, especially for terran and protoss buildings.

awesome workaround, thanks!!!
Fyrewolf
Profile Joined January 2010
United States1533 Posts
August 02 2012 22:13 GMT
#49
On August 03 2012 06:32 Morton wrote:
I know a lot of people think STC and this is "ugly"

but personally I think it looks cool, especially for terran and protoss buildings.

awesome workaround, thanks!!!


I think it looks even better than stc, even if I've only seen the gifs so far. Would like to see some screenshots too.

The brightness change really helps my eyes to to distinguish individual details more easily, especially for stuff on the creep which tends to blend way too much on normal.
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Steelo_Rivers
Profile Blog Joined January 2011
United States1968 Posts
August 02 2012 22:17 GMT
#50
On August 03 2012 04:59 NeMeSiS3 wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 04:39 LgNKami wrote:
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.


I don't think you really understand its purpose... "facepalm"

I do but I play terran and I dont have any vision problems so for me its just an eyesore over being helpful. Im not saying that its not a helpful thing, it's just something I personally do not like. Plus blizzard added something to the option menu that changes your unit health bars to your team colors so if I ever did (for some crazy reason) wind up in a zvz on a dark map, then I could determine what's mine and what isnt.
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Existor
Profile Joined July 2010
Russian Federation4295 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-02 22:19:57
August 02 2012 22:17 GMT
#51
On August 03 2012 07:13 Fyrewolf wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 06:32 Morton wrote:
I know a lot of people think STC and this is "ugly"

but personally I think it looks cool, especially for terran and protoss buildings.

awesome workaround, thanks!!!


I think it looks even better than stc, even if I've only seen the gifs so far. Would like to see some screenshots too.

The brightness change really helps my eyes to to distinguish individual details more easily, especially for stuff on the creep which tends to blend way too much on normal.

Screenshots are same, as gifs, just a bit lower quality, but there are nothing special to show. You will not see here something extra-new, it's just increased ingame saturation, and a cheap way to bring back Stronger Team Color mod


I do but I play terran and I dont have any vision problems so for me its just an eyesore over being helpful. Im not saying that its not a helpful thing, it's just something I personally do not like. Plus blizzard added something to the option menu that changes your unit health bars to your team colors so if I ever did (for some crazy reason) wind up in a zvz on a dark map, then I could determine what's mine and what isnt.

The main problem of team colored bars is no color indication for low HP. Yes, with team colored bars it looks exactly same, like in any C&C game, but in SC2 those HP bars are bigger and it's better to see them colored rather than alltime green or red.

But I love these red bars and now I can leave boring green-yellow-red scheme in team games, because red bars.
iknowFiRE
Profile Joined January 2012
Slovenia37 Posts
August 03 2012 04:39 GMT
#52
hey Existor thanks for this much appreciated, but i have one question, before i used this d3 mod to add sharp effect and stronger color mod and it worked great, but now if i use this saturated colors, i lose sharp. i mean i tried to combine them to have both, but i really dont understand what makes sharp appear because i can manualy edit that file to add saturate, but it wont do anything or viceversa, if i edit saturate file, it doesnt add sharp. can u help maybe? because sharp really really helps, all the texts are more visible, not to mention all the textures seem very detailed after. basicaly witho its just a simple filter
ZenithM
Profile Joined February 2011
France15952 Posts
August 03 2012 04:43 GMT
#53
Well that's kind of an awful workaround. I guess people really do want this mod :D
Probe1
Profile Blog Joined August 2010
United States17920 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-03 05:14:25
August 03 2012 04:49 GMT
#54
Could you please, please pretty please remap it to anything except pause break like an F key or something? Pause has been pause for forever. Hey, you could release an alternate version with scroll lock as the toggle switch, it's not like we ever use that key.. unlike the pause button.

lol wow 200% looks like my starcraft is jaundiced. i'll try 100% instead

100% is ok. 200% was way way way too much. 100% is good for quickly telling zerglings and zealots apart.

On August 03 2012 13:43 ZenithM wrote:
Well that's kind of an awful workaround. I guess people really do want this mod :D

Pretty much agree. I mean I'm grateful it's better than nothing but I miss Stronger Color Mod so much.

To the Terran that got high and mighty about not having to use stronger color mod- Terran has no melee units lol. It's important to be able to tell how much your opponent has in a glance and vanilla makes that harder than it has to be with dour colors.
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steamrice
Profile Joined August 2010
435 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-03 05:51:18
August 03 2012 05:50 GMT
#55
That looks like Digital Vibrance set to 100% for nvidia card users...

If you have an nvidia card goto control panel in nvidia and adjust monitor color display and change your digital vibrance if you like bright and vivid colors.
Tom Cruise
Profile Joined July 2012
Denmark482 Posts
August 03 2012 06:05 GMT
#56
so what's the diff between this and upping the vibrance in gfx menu?
Talin
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Montenegro10532 Posts
August 03 2012 06:15 GMT
#57
On August 03 2012 04:39 LgNKami wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.


Aesthetics are not the point though. I'd gladly have SC2 even in a cell-shaded cartoony style if it made it more clean. Look at Quake models - they look like they're wrapped in the glowing red/green latex from head to toe.

SC2's original visuals are adapted to the lore and the setting, plus they're really dark and gritty. The visuals aren't practical or suited for spectating at all, it's just that people got used to them.
Asturas
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
Finland587 Posts
August 03 2012 06:32 GMT
#58
On August 03 2012 04:39 LgNKami wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.


I always hated this MOD. The problem is that some streamers are using it. It makes SC2 looks just ugly and annoying.
I also hoped that Stronger Color Mod will die with 1.5.
There are no boundaries, that's the final conclusion.
winthrop
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
Hong Kong956 Posts
August 03 2012 06:35 GMT
#59
On August 03 2012 15:32 Asturas wrote:
Show nested quote +
On August 03 2012 04:39 LgNKami wrote:
On August 03 2012 00:17 lolnice wrote:
Damnit, I hoped that this ugly, stream infesting MOD would die out with 1.5.

User was warned for this post

honestly I agree. I think it looks horrible. Its like a 3 y/o got a hold of the sc2 unit models and some neon play-dough.


I always hated this MOD. The problem is that some streamers are using it. It makes SC2 looks just ugly and annoying.
I also hoped that Stronger Color Mod will die with 1.5.

+1. this is what i feel when watching ESV
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endy
Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Switzerland8970 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-08-03 06:48:09
August 03 2012 06:47 GMT
#60
Wow one of the reasons I do not appreciate to watch SC2 is because it's so hard to distinguish things.
I really like how the game looks with the mod on your gif animation. Congrats man !
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