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[Darekun]

New minor modding tool: DF Color Girl! It takes color descriptor files and displays them. You can pass it one or more on the command line, or drag-and-drop one or more at a time.

• Left-click on a color copies its identifier, like "GOLDENROD".
• Right-click copies its identifier in the form of [TL_COLOR_MODIFIER] parameters, appending if the clipboard already starts with a : character, like ":COPPER:1:DARK_INDIGO:1:ECRU:1:GOLDENROD:1".
• Middle-click is kind of a mix, appending the identifier with a space, like(starting with a left-click) "COPPER DARK_INDIGO ECRU GOLDENROD".

This also shows some oddities in the official colors. Why is CHOCOLATE so much brighter than CINNAMON? o_O And the name is a variant of a standard pattern of mine, varied of course for the bad pun.

Needs: Windows or Wine. No frameworks/interpreters/etc. needed for native Windows support.

Known Flaws: Should report errors better.



Also, this tool is pretty minor. In searching, I didn't find a "minor modding tools" thread, but found lots of threads for individual tools. I don't expect there to be much discussion for this tool, so if you have a minor modding tool of your own, go ahead and post about it! Hopefully this thread can collect tools too small for their own threads :J (Alternately, I screwed up and this should be in an existing thread >_>)

[Sorcerer]

Oooh, this is actually really handy, thanks!

[G-Flex]

Why is CHOCOLATE so much brighter than CINNAMON? o_O

Research, my friend!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_%28color%29#Cocoa_brown_.28web_color_.22chocolate.22.29_.28light_chocolate.29

Editing the color tokens in the game is probably not the best idea unless necessary for some reason, because they're usually based on pretty well-defined standards.

[Darekun]

New ver up, fixed mousewheel.

Oooh, this is actually really handy, thanks!

You're welcome, glad you like :J

Research, my friend!

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chocolate_%28color%29#Cocoa_brown_.28web_color_.22chocolate.22.29_.28light_chocolate.29

Yeah, I meant that in a deeper sense. Especially since we mainly encounter them through the identifiers, it's a minor bug waiting to happen.

[Meph]

Nice. Does it read out the colors from the descriptor raw, or did you enter the vanilla colors by hand ? Because modded games might have a few new colors.

[Darekun]

Nice. Does it read out the colors from the descriptor raw, or did you enter the vanilla colors by hand ? Because modded games might have a few new colors.

It reads them out, it doesn't have anything like that hardcoded :J In particular, I think there's only one color descriptor file in vanilla DF, so the "one or more" feature is intended for "the vanilla file plus your mod's file".

Also… I pretty much started this project in order to avoid entering the vanilla colors by hand