Editor: allow setting player colors about openra

[pchote]

Reverse-duplicate of #4488.

[Mailaender]

I prefer to close those "everything and more" issues instead. #4488

Just passing by, almost 9 years after the creation of this issue and 4,5 years after its last update.
Every related stuff is closed.
Is it still relevant / wanted ?

In multiplayer, each player chooses their own color.
In single player, colors are hardcoded (Allies/Soviets, GDI/Nod and so on) :

[danielrae83]

Just passing by, almost 9 years after the creation of this issue and 4,5 years after its last update.
Every related stuff is closed.
Is it still relevant / wanted ?

In multiplayer, each player chooses their own color.
In single player, colors are hardcoded (Allies/Soviets, GDI/Nod and so on) :

I think it would be really valuable for Skirmish (single player). I spend ages pregame setting colours for teams so one team has hues of red, another has hues of blue, etc.

[penev92]

I do believe this is for campaign missions and scripted maps (that have preset players). Not for generic skirmish/multiplayer maps.

[Mailaender]

Ideally, it should work for both cases.

I started to work on this.

Getting the palette to update mid-game and in the UI is a problem: