Colors

[Slava Ukraini]

Since the last update we can make our own colors. Does it mean that we can replace this aggressive orange on most factory parts into a smoother color like green for example? And is it now also possible to change this orange Train into a different calm color?

[Vectorspace]

Yes and yes. Though even before the update it was possible to freely change the default colour.

[Slava Ukraini]

Thank you.

[Slava Ukraini]

Originally posted by Vectorspace:

Yes and yes. Though even before the update it was possible to freely change the default colour.

Now after playing my first 5+ hours in the game I need to correct it.
First I searched carefully all the options in the Menu and unfortunately there is no button to change the default color. I guess what you mean are the four color sliders for changing the default colors for the IMAGES while building dismanteling etc. Those default colors are only for the IMAGES while constructing. But all the real buildings are still all in this ugly orange.

Is there really no way to change this by default somewhere? And later costomizing colors in game, this is also not for generally replacing the orange by another more decent color, one button for all buildings right? It would be a very tedious work to repeat this for every single building or not?

[Vectorspace]

No, there is. If you go into the customiser which is a tab off the build menu (I think that's an Awesome Shop unlock first) and go into colours, you can amend the 4 defaults and that will affect all future builds, and all current builds that used those defaults.

[Vectorspace]

https://satisfactory.fandom.com/wiki/Customizer

[kLuns]

Unlock the Recourcablle Sink Program, after that turn your factory belts and pipe Black. after that the contrast is clear and peacefull and you can select the colour of your likings

[Slava Ukraini]

Thank you so much, this should help a lot. This orange everywhere was already exhausting and tiring my sensitive eyes.

For everybody else experiencing eye problems with the screen full of bright orange everywhere, I advice to put it into decent calm colors as well. In the eye-doctors office I was told, that green is the best color for relaxing the eyes. This is probably also the reason, why most of nature is in a decent fresh green. The worsed and most problematic colors for our eyes is too much aggressive orange and red. This also ought to be the reason why red and orange appears only few and rare in nature.

Back in the seventies when I still was in apprenticeship, all machines and equipment at work were painted still in a decent green. I still remember as the teacher told as the reason why all machines (and even the trains) are painted green and not for example in a ''beautiful'' orange. In order to protect our eyes and make us feel calm and comfortable, close to nature even when we are at work.

I really wonder why nowadays nobody seems to care anymore about the humans health. A once thoughtful decent attitude was replaced by greed for money and power. This is also mirrowed in the colors used everywhere. While in the past health was an aspect to consider, now every company just wants to draw attention no matter the losses. Now trains and trams are all painted in a bright aggresive red. Be it at work, the architecture, the work vehicles, everywhere bright orange and red... very disturbing for the eyes and soul. The good old peaceful and calm colors are mostly gone. Even the garbage truck is bright orange now instead of a decent grey as in the past.

I share this, because I know that many many people also suffer eye problems. Our eyes are a very important and essential part of our health. And without good eyes we can also forget all those beautiful computer games here. And I also know that many if not most humans don't even know about the importance of what colors we are using for our eyes.

Here in Germany so many people experience heavy eye problems and the waiting times to get an appointment with the eye-doctor averages about between half or even one year.

Hence I guess it is good to share this ideas here, because I see the same tendence in this and other games to put everywhere orange, orange and again orange wherever you look. I am so happy that we now were given the option to change the colors at our convenience.

Thank you again for all your time and advices and also thanks to the Devs who added this essential feature to this game.

[Xcorps]

that green is the best color for relaxing the eyes. This is probably also the reason, why most of nature is in a decent fresh green.

Most of nature is blue. https://wallpapersmug.com/download/1024x768/a57eda/planet-earth-space.jpg

Green plants are not green because they are sympathetic to human vision. They are green because chlorophyll doesn't absorb as much light from the green wavelengths. The most accepted theory is that plants use the red and blue spectrum for the majority of their energy needs and absorbing green would lead to overheating.

[Twelvefield]

There is red chlorophyll, but it isn't as efficient as green chlorophyll.

If you zoom out on that picture of earth, I mean really really zoom out, so that you see the entire Universe in one go, then nature is beige.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cosmic_latte

[Twelvefield]

As to the colours of things, most people stick to the theory of the colour wheel. No sense me posting one, you can look it up easily. Colours that are next to each other, like green and yellow-green are said to be analogous. Analogue colours are seen as harmonious.

Colours that are opposite of each other are called complimentary. Complimentary colours stand out from one another. So in a world predominated by blue, orange is the colour you need for greatest contrast. If there is a lot of green, then red is complimentary. Since blue and green are fairly close analogues and red and orange are as well, you can see where this goes.

Visibility is the prime driver for most civic colour choices. There aren't many ambulances painted the colour of asphalt, for example. However, red and orange don't show up all that well in low light conditions because their wavelengths are too long. You don't see so many red emergency vehicles anymore, although there are some.

The very highest contrast and visibility is yellow-green paired with black trim. It's not supposed to be easy on the eyes, it's supposed to keep you from running over paramedics with your car, which for all I know could be a soothing green. I'd never ever buy a green car myself, nor a green suit, but Riddler would.

Finally, if you want something garish, you go triadic with your colour scheme. A Triad is thre colours that are equidistant on the color wheel. Red, blue, and yellow are triadic, and it's not an accident that Superman wears those colours: he was designed to be as visible as possible on the comic book page. Slide the triad over slightly, and you get purple, green, and orange: Joker's colours. Fights between Superman and Joker never go well, so it's best to keep triadic colour schemes to a minimum lest eyes be burst.