In Game Map ColorsFollow

Is there any way to change the color of in-game map colors? On many indoor maps I get a light white color for some parts of the map. It's very hard to see. I know that some lines are different colors to show lower levels etc., but it does me little good if I can't see the line. I find myself with my nose pressed against the screen in order to see at all...lol.

Open the map, click on the tools button, select a line or label by clicking on it until it becomes highlighted (white, hard to tell if it's already white :( ), then click change color or modify color or whatever. Unfortunately, you can only do this one line / label at a time.

Mappie is a good tool for doing this out of game with mass color change, or you can just manually edit the files. Any good search engine will find Mappie for you, and there is a thread called Basic Map File Contents with details of the map files, if you decide to do it manually.

Yther Ore.

Map Colors:

I think the reason some areas in the maps are drawn in white or other light colors is that you can use your window fade options in Options to make the map window fade when you move your cursor off it. The background become transparent and you can "see through" the map, with the lines still visible. This makes the white lines and other pastel colors show up nicely against a darker zone. You can sill have your map up while moving around without haveing the area obstructed by the map window.

Now... if you still do not like what you see, there is away to change the colors of the lines on your map without painstakingly selecting each little segment of line and clicking on the set line color button in your map tools window.

1. Figure out what color numbers the current line color is that you want to change. Open your map tools window (click on the little compass icon in the lower right hand corner of your map window) Hightlight a segment of line ( it will turn yellow). Click on the Set Line Color button. A new little window will open showing you the current color of the line. On the bar graphs just below that, you will see the Red Green Blue lines. The numbers in the tiny boxes at the beginig of the bar graph is the color. All three numbers together represent the color of the line. Write these three numbers down.

2. Using the pre-selected colors or make a color of your own preference by experimenting with this for a few moments. When you find a color that you think will show up on your maps, write these three numbers down

Examples : 0, 0, 0 is black
0, 0, 255 is dark blue
0, 255, 0 is dark green
255, 255, 255 is white
255, 0, 0 is a dark red
3. Now, log off the game. Using your Explorer, go to Program Files, Sony, EverQuest, maps. Open your map file and find a map you want to experiment on, perhaps one that has a lot of white lines. For many zones, you will have 3 or sometimes 4 maps. I generally choose the mapname_1.txt NOTE: if you ***** up ... simply delete the map and it will be restored the next time you log onto the game if you have patching enabled, or just make a backup copy before you start to fiddle around.

In this file, the code for drawing the lines begins with the letter L. The code for labeling points begins with P. Take a moment to look through this file. Here come the hard part. Do a Find/Replace and find , the three numbers that describe the color you do not want at the end of the /L line (white is , 255, 255, 255) and replace with the three color numbers you wrote down. The Commas and Spacings are important. Double check for typos. Save your edited map. Log on to the game and see if you like the changes.

It really isn't as hard or as time consuming as this looks.