[mitsubishi]

Durandal, on 23 November 2010 - 08:05 AM, said:

green

When you go there be very careful to take into account the frequencies of the visual spectrum.



from wikipedia http://en.wikipedia....isible_spectrum

You can see red and blue are far apart making them more easily distinguishable by the human brain/mechanism. If you go green you go in their middle, meaning if you don't change one of the others too you make it harder to make them apart.It appears there red+blue are ideally picked.

However, I suspect without being an expert in ophthalmology that white vs black would be the absolute best since it's color vs no color at all, and most maps don't use absolute white and absolute black anyway.

But it might bring racial memories and society isn't good at dealing with them rationally.

This post has been edited by mitsubishi: 24 November 2010 - 08:41 AM

[Volt]

He said as an option, it would probably be mainly for colour blind people.

[[DSG]Durandal]

mitsubishi, on 23 November 2010 - 08:44 AM, said:

When you go there be very careful to take into account the frequencies of the visual spectrum.

You can see red and blue are far apart making them more easily distinguishable by the human brain/mechanism. If you go green you go in their middle, meaning if you don't change one of the others too you make it harder to make them apart.It appears there red+blue are ideally picked.

Just because two colors are close together on the wavelength spectrum doesn't mean that we will have a hard time discerning them. The human eye is actually acutely more sensitive to neon greenish yellow than any other color. You know that florescent neon they use for emergency vehicles and signs now instead of red?

Also... as was stated... color blind people can't distinguish between some colors... red and blue / red and green often meld together... which is why most games that have a "colorblind" option shift the teams to green and yellow... again.. where our eyes are more sensitive I would assume.

In fact, when dealing with colorometry and color spaces, it's more common to rely on the CIE L*a*b color model than the RGB spectrum model to approximate human vision. In that model the colors don't go from red to blue like the rainbow... but are determined by a Luminocity value ( L ) ... then a differentiation between blue and yellow ( *a ) and another differentiation between magenta and green ( *b ). Based on that model... other color choices might make more sense.

At the end of the day... red / blue were chosen, I believe, from all that childhood learning from crayons that says that red and blue are opposite colors (they aren't)... and it's kind of stuck.

[mitsubishi]

You could have 'team goggles' which is a feature automatically given to all and is by default as it is now. However, if you click on it you'd be able to change the colors of any team.

It might introduce confusion but who knows, it might help.

[zihaben]

For me the only problem in the current color scheme is that red character is more recogniseable than blue ( that's why I prefer to join blue team ^_^). Red is too bright ( or blue is too dark %-) )

[Mod ObScUrE]

zihaben, on 24 November 2010 - 02:45 PM, said:

For me the only problem in the current color scheme is that red character is more recogniseable than blue ( that's why I prefer to join blue team ^_^). Red is too bright ( or blue is too dark %-) )

In your screenshot the blue team would stand much more out on this walls.

[iShotYou-]

Darker looks better,Most of my friends disliked the game for the bright red and blue : /

[mitsubishi]

The 'team goggles' idea above could be expanded to make it darker. This is harmless since it'd decrease their competition ability.

[|it|Nexu]

There are some voices from players coming from Q3 that they wanted to see more brighter colors (as they are used to bright-skin settings in competition).
Where as players coming from COD/BF type of games wants the opposite (as the OP posted).