Calypso’s Recolored Religions
Do you have trouble telling certain Religions apart on the Religion lens? Can’t fathom why four religions are all assigned various shades of green? Do you just dislike pastel colors?
Ever since Civilization V, I’ve been picky about how the series selects colors for Religions. Remarkably, I had trouble finding Religion recolors on the Workshop, or elsewhere online. While putting together my mod for Recolored Civilizations, I decided to go ahead and put together a simple mod to recolor Religions as well, detailed below.
As I recolored religions, I primarily sought to pick colors that were bolder, so Religions would stand out better from one another. Where possible, I also sought to pick colors that had any level of meaning for each Religion. If you used my Colored Religious Icons for Civilization V, these colors should feel familiar to you.
The changes are as follows:
Wish my recolor for Protestantism was a bit lighter? If you direct yourself to the mod in your Steam Workshop folder (C:Program Files (x86)SteamSteamAppsworkshopcontent2890701617212322), I’ve included optional recolors for some religions that might better suit your taste. Simply open the folder "XML" and open the file "Recolored_Religions_Colors.sql" with any basic text editor. Add a pair of hyphens ("–") to the beginning of the line in the upper part for the Religion whose recolor you want to change, remove the pair of hyphens from the corresponding line in the lower part to enable the lighter color, and then save. This switches which lines are commented out and thus ignored when making changes to the game.
Of course if I update this mod later and you are subscrived to receive these changes (which I would greatly appreciate), my updated files will overwrite your local edits, so keep a backup if you need to.
As this mod updates colors for Religions, other mods that also update colors for these same Religions may be incompatible. Your game might load, but only the colors from the mod that loaded last will be displayed.
Mods that add new Religions are compatible, but may use colors for those religions that makes them difficult to distinguish from my recolors described above.
Of interest, this mod is compatible with Tomatekh’s Historical Religions, at least as of v.11 (Jan 7 2019). Religions that are unmodified by Tomatekh, or are a denomination of a modified religion set to use the original’s color (e.g. Lutheranism/Protestantism, Sunni/Islam, Smartism/Hinduism) will use my colors instead. New religions and new denominations defined with their own colors by Tomatekh’s mod are ignored by my own.
This mod is updated to function correctly with Civilization VI following the update to all versions of the game that took place upon the release of Civilization VI Gathering Storm.
This mod is not set to affect saved games. Games started with the mod may be continued without it. Games started without the mod may be continued with it.
Have any feedback for the mod? Let me know in the comments below. I quite like these colors and am not likely to change them much further, but might be open to small tweaks here or there. It’s impossible of course to devise colors that look great in every part of the game (esp. against every possible color for Civilizations’ city banners), but I hope you’ll agree that overall these tend to stand out better than the original colors.
