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🧪 Colour recipes

Starting points for common looks. Each recipe gives the colour to pick in MED's Map Colours window (what players see) and the half numbers for fog and horizon if you type them into a fog box, a Nile action or a WAC script.

ON THIS PAGEHow to read a recipe Tan dust haze Golden evening Cold blue night Grey storm Red alert (scripted, fades in)Green zombie sky

These are starting points worked out from the numbers, not finished looks: every map's environment, time of day and textures change the result. Change one colour at a time and compare. If you find a recipe that looks great in game, post it in TAC Mappers HQ and it goes on this page with your name.

How to read a recipe

MED = the numbers to type (or pick) in MED's Map Colours window. MED halves fog and horizon itself.
Half = the fog and horizon numbers for General Information's Fog Color (0-127) box, Nile's Fog Color / Horizon Color, and WAC fogcolor / skyfogcolor.
Sun, sky and ground are the same numbers everywhere.

Tan dust haze

Dry, dusty, warm: deserts, dirt roads, late summer.

Colour	MED	Half
Fog + horizon	210, 180, 140	105, 90, 70
Sun	255, 235, 200	-

fogcolor(105,90,70)
skyfogcolor(105,90,70)
sun(255,235,200)

Golden evening

Colour	MED	Half
Fog + horizon	230, 150, 90	115, 75, 45
Sun	255, 170, 90	-
Sky light	150, 120, 140	-

Cold blue night

Colour	MED	Half
Fog + horizon	30, 40, 70	15, 20, 35
Sun (moon)	120, 140, 200	-
Sky light	40, 50, 90	-

Grey storm

Colour	MED	Half
Fog + horizon	110, 115, 120	55, 57, 60
Sun	150, 155, 165	-
Lightning	220, 230, 255	-

Red alert (scripted, fades in)

For a moment in the match: the base falls, the sky turns red. Fades over 10 seconds, then goes back to the map's look when you choose.

colorfade(10)
fogcolor(110,20,20)
skyfogcolor(110,20,20)
sun(255,90,60)

// later, back to normal:
fogcolor(999,999,999)
skyfogcolor(999,999,999)
sun(999,999,999)

Green zombie sky

colorfade(15)
fogcolor(40,80,30)
skyfogcolor(40,80,30)
sky(40,220,60)
ground(20,60,20)