Wood tone national deck colors

[jwsmith26]

Here are three wood tone national decks that you can use for your RTW3 navies. 

They come in three sets: Wood tones, Wood tones Intense, and Wood tones Subtle. You can view them immediately below with instructions on how to use them at the bottom. 





Here are three sets of national wood tone deck colors that you can use to replace the default dark gray deck color. To replace the default deck colors with one of these wood tone sets, just copy the wood tone set you want to use from below and paste it over the relevant section in the Preferences file and then, of course, save the file. You'll find the relevant section about halfway down the Preferences file. The game cannot be running while you do this. When you restart the game, you should see the new deck colors being used.

I've provided more complete instructions below if you need more help with this process. Probably most of you can skip these instructions.

Detailed instructions

-- Make sure RTW3 is not running.

-- Make a backup copy of your current "Preferences" file. The Preferences file is found in the top level of the RTW3 directory, the same directory that contains RTW3.exe.

-- Copy the set of deck colors you want to use from this post. You'll want to copy every line that starts with: "NationColor" for the set you want to use.

-- Open the "Preferences" file in a text editor, such as Notepad. Don't use a word processor like MS Word because it can leave unwanted formatting information in the file.

-- Find the section that contains the 11 "NationColor" lines and paste your copied text over these lines. If you are using the default deck colors the relevant section will look like this:

NationColor0=clGray
NationColor1=clGray
NationColor2=clGray
NationColor3=clGray
NationColor4=clGray
NationColor5=clGray
NationColor6=clGray
NationColor7=clGray
NationColor8=clGray
NationColor9=clGray
NationColor10=clGray

-- After you have overwritten the lines, save the Preferences file. The new deck colors will appear when you restart the game.

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Here are the lines that need to be copied for each of the three wood tone deck colors:

Wood tones:
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NationColor0=$0092A8AF
NationColor1=$0061A0B4
NationColor2=$006F8FA8
NationColor3=$0092B6C0
NationColor4=$0089A5BE
NationColor5=$0092A3AD
NationColor6=$007DB0BF
NationColor7=$00B5BBB3
NationColor8=$006D9EAB
NationColor9=$0089B5B6
NationColor10=$00AEC8D0


Wood tones subtle:
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NationColor0=$0096B9CB
NationColor1=$0085BACB
NationColor2=$0083A3B1
NationColor3=$00C2D6DC
NationColor4=$00A8BECE
NationColor5=$00B9BBAE
NationColor6=$00A4CED5
NationColor7=$00B3D2DD
NationColor8=$0095B7BF
NationColor9=$00AFCDCF
NationColor10=$00C5C5C5


Wood tones intense:
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NationColor0=$006196A5
NationColor1=$0059A3BB
NationColor2=$004F7591
NationColor3=$0078AEBE
NationColor4=$00739BBF
NationColor5=$007192A6
NationColor6=$0075B5C8
NationColor7=$00AEB9AA
NationColor8=$0064A5B5
NationColor9=$0085B9BA
NationColor10=$006F93A2

[jeeweej]

Oh this just looks brilliant! Thanks for sharing!

[EDIT]

These wooden decks look glorious!
[/EDIT]

[cwemyss]

Those are beautiful... thanks!!!

[axe99]

That's wonderful - many thanks @jwsmith

Edit: Added this in before my session today, and it looks really, really nice   Setting the normal wood tones as the game's default might be something to think about?

[jwsmith26]

Thanks, guys.

I got so busy at the end cleaning up last minute issues that I wasn't able to get these decks turned in until it was too late for Fredrik to use them.

[jeeweej]

One unintended sideeffect of the wood colors I found is that it seems that the French tumblehome hull designs have gone back to the age of sail.
Who needs all this newfangled iron and steel when wood serves just as well?


(I have not yet tried to fix it in the graphics tab, just found it pretty funny to see)

[therequimen]

Will this be added to the base game in a patch at some point?

[zulu354]

May 24, 2023 13:48:36 GMT -6 therequimen said:

Will this be added to the base game in a patch at some point?

You can easily add the values your own. Don't see the necessity to add it to the base game. A checkbox to the preferences would be neat though.

[King-Salomon]

May 25, 2023 13:07:47 GMT -6 zulu354 said:

May 24, 2023 13:48:36 GMT -6 therequimen said:

Will this be added to the base game in a patch at some point?

You can easily add the values your own. Don't see the necessity to add it to the base game. A checkbox to the preferences would be neat though.

not everyone wants/is able to edit his gamefiles - especially if steam is overwriting the changes you make from time to time...

[zulu354]

May 25, 2023 14:48:44 GMT -6 King-Salomon said:

May 25, 2023 13:07:47 GMT -6 zulu354 said:

You can easily add the values your own. Don't see the necessity to add it to the base game. A checkbox to the preferences would be neat though.

not everyone wants/is able to edit his gamefiles - especially if steam is overwriting the changes you make from time to time...

1st - you either enter the values in the preference file - not a big thing, just copy and paste.

2nd - you can change the colours in the game settings yourself, using an rgb slider.

3rd - as those are your ingame settings, Steam won't change anything.

It's not witch craft. Even drawing a decent ship takes more time

[williammiller]

May 24, 2023 13:48:36 GMT -6 therequimen said:

Will this be added to the base game in a patch at some point?

We can consider that.

[jwsmith26]

If you are searching for the Preferences file, note that its location has changed to the same location as your saved game files. It is now located here: C:\Users\[username]\Documents\My Games

The old Preferences file is, for the moment, still found in the RTW3 root directory (adjacent to RTW3.exe file). Changing this legacy file will have no effect on the game's settings.