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Empire Color Fix (No more Black Empires)

So in their endless wisdom paradox decided to "fix" the secondary color bug which prevented it from appearing on the map. So for quite a while the only colors present on the main map were the primary color. which works quite well actually as you can see in the comparison images. now with the recent update 4.1.3 they "fixed" the error and the secondary colors are again considered when drawing the map. which fucced everything up and most empires are just black with random borders. I "fixed" it, so the game again only uses the primary color.

If this mod ever stops working, just go into the gfx/FX/border.shaders file, open it with a text editor und replace this line:

float4 vColor = vAlphaEdge * PrimaryColor + ( 1 - vAlphaEdge ) * SecondaryColor;

with this line:

float4 vColor = vAlphaEdge * PrimaryColor + ( 1 - vAlphaEdge ) * PrimaryColor;

so it says primarycolor twice.