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Dark Gray Team Colours - Palette Mods

NOTE! The Workshop does not officially support .bina files yet, which is the file that changes the Colour Palette. Just subscribing to this mod will not work. You need to manually install this mod yourself.

To install this mod, go to the Dark Gray Team Colours - Palette Mods Workshop Folder, which can be easily found through the Workshop Menu ingame. Then go to:


And insert the "50050.bina" file into that (interface) folder and replace the current .bina file. This mod also includes the original "50050.bina" file as a backup, which can be restored the same way. The Age2HD folder can be easily found through the Steam Library Menu, Right Clicking on Age of Empires II: HD, Properties, Local Files, Browse Local Files.

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This mod has Palettes that attempt to darken then Gray Player Gradiant, which is rather a popular requested mod on the Workshop. Unfortunately, with how the Workshop handles Palette Mods, or rather mods in general, this is difficult to achieve without affecting other graphics in the game. Tons of current ingame graphics uses the same colours from the Gray player and because SLP files are pretty much modified Bitmaps, changing the Greys will have an impact on the Untis & Buildings themselves.

There are two versions, one is a "Stable" version, which the goal of the mod is to keep the gradiant as close to default as possible but still darken the Gradiant as much as possible. The second is a more dynamic version that significantly reduces the brightness of the Gray Shades. Since this has much more of an impact on the Graphics in general, I've listed this as an "Unstable" version.

This is really the best I can do with the Gray Player Colour on HD & Workshop without resulting to DAT Mods, which would make it even more of a nightmare for people to get working for HD. I'm well aware about the Dark Gray mod on Voobly / AoKH, but I need to note and stress that the mod is a DAT Mod, meaning that it modifies the Dataset itself. Voobly has a much better system for handling mods, especially Dataset mods, so thats is why the Dark Gray mod on Voobly is possible, but not for HD. Even if DAT Mods were properly supported for HD, I would still be stuck since honestly, I not exactly sure how the original author accomplished that particular player colour ingame. It seems to consists of only two actual colours, which is a Dark Gray and some kind of Dark Brown, which is unusual since Player Colours are usually constructed from 8 Colours in a straight gradiant.

Even though I don't recommend the "Unstable" Palette since it pretty much removes almost all of the White Colours from Units, Buildings, Icons, Relics and the such, it's still there if people want to use it.

I have also included True Orange versions for both versions of the Darker Gray Palette. This also includes a backup version of HD's Default Palette for an easier uninstall option.

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