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Hi, I am making a BZFlag server, or arena, whatever you want to call it, and I want your opinions on colors since I am making it capture the flag. If this is in the wrong place, I'm sorry, I didn't know where to put it... All opinions wanted.
Thanks!

Assuming you're making a 2-team CTF, here are some good color choices:
-Red vs. Blue
-Red vs. Green
-Red vs. Purple
-Blue vs. Green
-Blue vs. Purple
-Green vs. Purple

Here are some bad color choices:
-Blue vs. Black
-Red vs. Vermillion
-Clear vs. Opaque
-Periwinkle vs. Rainbow

Really, the color choices don't matter. Go with whatever you want. I tend to stick with Red vs. Blue, but that's a personal decision, and you don't have to use it.

i like red vs blue too

Red vs. blue, or red vs. green I say.

Red versus green is a not so good idea. Green blind people won't see the difference between red and green tanks.

If you have rogues (yellow) and greens then red blind people won't see the difference between yellow and green tanks.


Colour is a difficult topic, usually people tend to not understanding it.

purp vs. blue!
i think thats the best!

Red vs. Purple seems to work for a lot of people.

Blue vs. Purple is also a bad choice for color-blind people. To summarize:

Normally good choices:
[*]Red vs. Blue
[*]Red vs. Purple
[*]Green vs. Blue
[*]Green vs. Purple

Bad choices:
[*]Red vs. Green
[*]Green vs. Purple

Being colorblind myself, I know I have TK'd people on several occasions while shooting at long range because I thought they were on the other team. Especially on Blue vs. Purple maps, I find myself having to hit Identify before shooting, and even then I sometimes hit the wrong people.

Seeing that this can be fixed by simply choosing colors with more contrast, it shouldn't be that much of a problem. Great game BTW--it's just a small annoyance for me.

Edit: I'm sorry about bringing this topic back after it had already moved to the next page, but I thought it would be good to reinforce the message for anyone considering new maps.

scorchgeek, if you have the TK problem a lot, why don't you change the textures to different colors? I think all you need to do is go into the directory with the images and either edit the existing ones or make new ones with the same names.

Flaming Tiger, I think you mean you're making a map. A server is the site that hosts a map.

And anyone who says rogues are yellow is not using his eyes, by default the tanks are black, though their shots may be yellow.

Luv-ie wuvvies, Amoeba

EDIT: And now I forgot to say I think red vs. blue would be lovely and classic.

That works quite well. Only one problem: There don't seem to be textures for the team flags. How could I change those--or are those in a different spot?

scorchgeek wrote:That works quite well. Only one problem: There don't seem to be textures for the team flags. How could I change those--or are those in a different spot?

In 2.0.x, there was only a single flag texture. The team flag coloring is down with OpenGL. In 3.0.0 there will be a texture for each team flag.

Thanks! Other than that, it works great. I'll just play carefully sometimes not knowing what color the flags are until the next version.