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Blackavaar's Guide to Canon Colors
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In order to help the community get that canon look I developed this guide. I hope you find it useful. Enjoy!
Index:
The Canon Uniforms have been moved to their own page in order to make room for future additions. Click on the Canon Uniforms link in the Index above to go to that page.
Notice that I've labeled these as per the usual positions the colors were used to designate in the shows and movies, not by the generalized Tactical, Engineering and Science careers they are used to designate in game.
Note: Due to limited color choices and lack of certain details, these uniforms may not appear perfectly accurate with canon. However, within the constraints of the game, they are as close as you can possibly get. All uniforms have been tested in various lighting environments in the game in order to insure the most accurate color choices possible.
For those that crave more accuracy, I use a Dell E198WFP Monitor with the Color preset Normal. My Color Profile is sRGB IEC61966-2.1. These are the standard settings for most PCs and Monitors.
Enjoy!
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Index:
- Canon Uniforms
- Section 31 Uniforms
- 25th Century Uniform Guide
- Soft Canon / Fan Choice Uniforms
- 29th Century Uniforms
- Klingon Uniform Guide
- Casual/Non-commissioned Personnel Uniform Guide
- Off Duty Uniform Guide
- Special Sections
The Canon Uniforms have been moved to their own page in order to make room for future additions. Click on the Canon Uniforms link in the Index above to go to that page.
Notice that I've labeled these as per the usual positions the colors were used to designate in the shows and movies, not by the generalized Tactical, Engineering and Science careers they are used to designate in game.
Note: Due to limited color choices and lack of certain details, these uniforms may not appear perfectly accurate with canon. However, within the constraints of the game, they are as close as you can possibly get. All uniforms have been tested in various lighting environments in the game in order to insure the most accurate color choices possible.
For those that crave more accuracy, I use a Dell E198WFP Monitor with the Color preset Normal. My Color Profile is sRGB IEC61966-2.1. These are the standard settings for most PCs and Monitors.
Enjoy!
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I don't know if you feel like doing more voluntary work, but here's an idea for presentation of the 24th century uniforms:
Since most of the uniforms use the same shades you could add an image with a shot of just the palette, and the colors highlighted saying "this is command red," for example. All the 24th century colors are the same in your uniforms, except the blue-greens, and even then you only use two shades in the uniforms. The blacks and greys are also all the same, it looks like.
The combadges (and pips) are also naturally all the same, so a shot with the two combadges and their colors by themselves would be cool.
This is an awesome post, and very well done, I just think it would also be cool to have a single pic with everything on it, a one-glance reference guide.
Why do you have the Voyager rank pips as silver, rather than gold as you have the DS9 and TNG pips? They used the same pips on Voyager as they did on the other shows.
Why do you have the TOS rank braid as silver? Unlike the insignia, the braid's colour can be changed. While it has a golden sheen to it that's built in, the overall colour is till determined by your choice, and your setting here looks quite silver (both in your examples and in my in-game testing), while the braiding in the series was gold.
For most grey and black parts, I tend to use the bottom line (true neutral greyscale) rather than the second line up (cool greyscale on left, warm greyscale on right).
Sometimes they are shown clearly as Grey (what you did)
but in the movies they often seem more dark blue-purple-gey-ish
some pics to compare:
http://images.sabob.com/products/images/1/Deluxe_Deep_Space_Nine_Star_Trek_Uniform_Red_Shirt.jpeg
http://i294.photobucket.com/albums/mm106/Linnear1701/Blog%20Photos/Data.jpg
http://static.guim.co.uk/sys-images/Lifeandhealth/Pix/pictures/2009/4/23/1240485483740/Star-Trek-fashion-Michael-006.jpg
http://img.trekmovie.com/images/merchandise/tng_movies_bd/shots/nemesis_35.jpg
http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/memoryalpha/en/images/thumb/d/de/Miles_O%27Brien,_2375.jpg/292px-Miles_O%27Brien,_2375.jpg
i would realy appriciate if the color's would be set to the default color by the game the first time you selct another uniform.
Thank you. I'll think about that for a future update.
Because the Voyager pips are more silver than gold. I've been watching a lot Voyager recently and I noticed that their pips look like white gold. Since there is not an appropriate silver with a gold sheen I find silver looks more accurate. If these pips were done like the TOS rank stripes they would look perfect.
Actually the silver with the gold sheen looks more accurate to me, since in many of the TOS episodes the stripes appear a more faded gold, as if the uniforms were being washed too often.
And the cool gray looks more accurate to me. It works better with the different lighting effects in the game, taking on the proper tones at the proper time.
Those are an effect of the lighting. As mentioned above I think the cool gray I've chosen works best with the lighting in the game.
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for the "Science team blue" and "Medical Blue-green variant" under the TNG section, you have both of them circled for the same shade of blue on the color picker. It's marked right on the TNG Movie version, just a little goof on the TNG regular section.
Thanks for putting the time in for this.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniforms
Yes. Chartreuse. Really.
I have problems correctly seeing red/green, so as you can imagine I've had an extremely difficult time getting my characters' and bridge officers' uniform colors right. I'll be using your guide to fix everyone's uniforms over the next week or so.
So thank you again Blackavaar.
I'll fix that shortly. Edit: That problem is now fixed.
I know. That's why I included the Captain's Variant Green.
You're very welcome.
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There is a slight difference. You can see it in the Memory Alpha Article: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniforms Check the Sciences section.
The article seems to indicate, however, that the change was time based. The article on this era also confirms that: http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Starfleet_uniform_(2366-2370s)#Type_B
That article also states, interestingly, that the yellows for operations and security were slightly different.
Wasn't criticising, was just something I found interesting. I never really saw them as anything but gold (actually, now that I'm watching the remastered episodes, in some of them you CAN tell), and they did change it to gold eventually when that's what everyone was seeing anyway. There were also some beige turtleneck-style tops in the earliest "filmed" episodes apparently (Where No Man Has Gone Before for example). I'm actually writing a blog, reviewing each episode as I watch them, so its kinda interesting to see the differences between episodes.
Keep up the great work!
Maybe. We'll have to see if any of the mods like it enough to do that.
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Thanks! I will.
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I neither see the difference nor do I find any reference to the blue/green distinction in the articles you linked. All it says is that the DS9/VOY science uniform (referred to as Type
TNG, and to some extent DS9, made no distinction with the colour of the uniforms. Doctor Crusher's uniform appears to be actually blue rather than blue/green: Medical 1, Medical 2 and Medical 3. But another doctor seen in the show wears the blue/green version: Medical 4. Then there were some uniforms seen for other science divisions where they appear to be the blue/green colour uniforms: Science.
The best thing to do is just pick the colour you like most and run with it
I added it to the OP as well.
Enjoy!
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Thank you! I'm glad you like it.
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I only modeled the versions that appeared in the Wrath of Khan film. For some reason I can't remember the variants you are describing from the movies. I'll have to go back and watch them again.
Type /screenshot_UI and press Enter. Voila!
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But I was talking about the later uniforms with the colored shoulders, not Dr. Crusher's.
Seriously, am I the only one who thinks this is wrong?
Oh well, i'll keep trying. Thanks for answering.
I've noticed these differences in episodes of Voyager and DS9 from time to time. There is no clear reason why there is a difference in the shades of blue, but there is a difference. Just use the color you prefer and leave it at that.
Personally I like being able to easily identify my Medical Officer from my Science Officer at a glance.
By the way, how do you all like the wallpaper version I made? Is it easy enough to read? Could I make any improvements? Let me know.
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When you use /screenshot_UI it will save the image to your screenshot folder as a .tga. You will have to open it using something like Photoshop or Paint and then Save As a .jpg so that you can view it as a normal image. This will insure that you get a complete shot with all of the UI, instead of just parts of it.
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