The faction editor does allow you to change the color of your faction (clothing, houses, skin, hair, metal, etc.)   

I can add some newlines to the xml, however any good xml editor should be able to do that as well when you open the file.  In either case, I'll add the newlines so that it is more readable.   New version coming soon.   It will also have an ability modifier area (i.e. faction gets a 25% increase to strength or a 50% mana regen bonus, etc.).   

I'll look into it.  I really want to wait to release for the day 0 patch so I don't have to change values again for the xml, but I check and see what might have broken.  any specific bonuses/flaws that aren't working for you?

Thx for this... having some trouble downloading the latest version but i have been using the 1.0 version. Works great... Only thing I would like to see would be abit of idiot proofing, seeing as for a few of the selections i had no idea what i was selecting. A big thank you for doing this.

Found a new hosting location.  Should work for a while.  Edited first post with new download location.  

This looks wonderful, great work! 

maniakos, I fully hope that we get the official faction editor soon.   As  this is really only a temporary fix. If we need it to be more permanent, then it will need a lot more effort for it to be usable by everyone (i.e. explanations for each characteristic, display the logos, etc.).   However, there seemed to be a need and a lot of people didn't want to edit their own XML and I could do something about that.

I intend to support this as much as needed as I am in it for the "long haul" with Elemental.  

Maybe...

We'll have to see, maybe your faction creator is better then Stardock's, lol.

Anyways, I appreciate the work you put into it. Helped me create all my custom factions. Great work!

Thanks,

- James

I'm downloading the patch now. Either way, you did great on this man. Keep up the good work no matter what project you're on

So anyone knows how i can "fix" my imperial factions created by stardock's creator, so they have techs? What do i add / edit in their .xml?
Thx!

edit: seems u just gotta change <TechTree>Empire_Tech_Tree</TechTree> (which doesnt exist) to <TechTree>Trog_Tech_Tree</TechTree>

  - Okay, well, I'll keep this around.   I also noticed you can't change the building colors, etc in the Stardock editor.  It just uses a single color.   I'm not sure if that was intentional or just to make it less cluttered.   

I'll keep things around for now.   BTW, the tech tree in this editor does work correctly.  

Actually you Can define that in the XML. You just have to open up the default XML and see what the line/value is for the terrain type you want, see where it goes in the script, and then copy/paste it over into your factions XML.

I'm tempted to reduce the options a little to simply things.  Like if you choose Kingdom it preselects all the kingdom techs, people, selects good, etc.   What do you think?

Also, I just created a race with some strange colors, despite the in-game editor not using the skin color, building color, roof color, you can indeed use them and they show up.

However, the attributes on the last tab (like assasin, etc.) don't really work for races.  I am trying to determine what will actually work and what won't so stay tuned for that.