See these posts for the graphics changes in v3.0. Adding an option for a background image is very easy if there is a general interest in that. I used to have one in early versions of Aurora, but it made the map icons harder to see.
Background Colour and Map Fonts
I’ve added a Display Settings option that pops up from a button on the Tactical Map.
You can set the background colour for the whole of Aurora and set a font for the Tactical and Galactic Maps.
Any colour can be selected for the background. The fonts are restricted (for now) to five options: Microsoft Sans Serif (default), Segoe UI, Arial, Calibri and Verdana.
The fonts only apply to the maps because different fonts have different text lengths for the same wor…
Aurora Colour Configuration
As part of an effort to make themes an integral part of Aurora, all colours displayed on maps and in forms are now loaded from an XML file when Aurora starts.
There are almost ninety different colour options within the XML, covering a huge variety of different areas. This includes map and form backgrounds, every display option on the tactical and galactic maps and the use of different text colours within forms.
Each colour has red, green and blue values, which can …
Graphics Overhaul
For v3.0, Aurora is going to look different. I believe there is general consensus that the yellow/blue combination is quite jarring for some players, which is why I introduced the custom colours above. I will be moving to a light grey / soft black combination but that can be changed at user discretion. There are likely to be alternative colour config files shared by players.
I am also changing the general appearance away from the current coloured icons to a more consistent se…
Map Body Colony Cost Colour
Bodies can now be shown by their colony cost, similar to the System View and using the same colours. The species used for the colony cost is selected on the Miscellaneous tab, although with the growing number of options I might re-arrange that.
Here is a brand new game showing Earth with CC < 2 and Mars/Mercury with CC < 3.
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Gas Giants can be shown as a seperate colour too.
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Low gravity bodies can be included. The light blue is colony cost < 3, w…
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