The files are either in C:\Users\[User]\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn\Settings\ or the \settings\ folder inside your Grim Dawn install directory, on Steam you can find it like so:
Inside that settings folder is a \text_en\ folder with *.txt files, those make the colors in the game. Updated files are in the first post under downloads.
Either delete the old files to remove the colors or move the new files in there to update it and fix “Tag not found: …” issues.
Yeah idk the german text must be bugged.
If I use english language the colors are right, only in german they are wrong.
As long as that text_de is in your steamapps directory (bottom screenshot), every language but German will update properly.
Looking at those dates in the screenshots you posted: [Tool] Rainbow Filter (Item Highlighting) - #730 by Xeaker
steamapps folder (bottom) text_de was created first, then you added the path setting in the program (my reply screenshot) which will write files into the middle screenshot instead, so you created text_en and couple weeks later you made a change to German and wanted to update it, but the files were written in the middle screenshot, creating the new text_de, rather than replacing those in the bottom one.
Changing colors works fine for me
I deleted text_de and pressed Save Color which created a new text_de
But the colors are still wrong.
Hi Xeaker, hi WareBare
GD verwendet 2 Verzeichnisse um Benutzersettings zu speichern.
Das eine ist das oben genannte im GD Ordner.
Das andere ist eine Hinterlassenschaft aus der Entwicklungszeit um es Moddern zu erleichtern benutzerdefinierte Settings zu speichern, und Crate hat es aktiv gelassen.
C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME HERE\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn\Settings
schau dort nach ob dort noch alte Sachen von der ehemaligen deutschen Übersetzung drin sind. Die wurden früher auch mit Rainbow gefärbt und dort gespeichert.
Da die Übersetzung nun “im Spiel” ist und WareBare das Tool hier ebenso “angepasst” hat, muss das alte Zeug da raus.
GD liest die Benutzereinstellungen zuerst. Wenn dort noch was drin ist, kommt es zu Überschneidungen. Was anderes kann ich mir auch nicht vorstellen.
Die Dateien hatten folgendes Format:
v1197_community_german_e_20230204.zip
Bei den Farbigen war dann noch deren Bezeichnung mit im Namen.
Wenn das noch da ist, weg mit dem Zeug.
Im Idealfall, wenn Du nix anderes hast, sind im Benutzerverzeichnis nur die Einstellungsdateien (inis). Die müssen da unbedingt bleiben. Das sind deine Optionen und Tastenbelegungen usw.
Die alten Übersetzungen aber raus. Und von WareBares Tool neu erstellen lassen, damit sie nur noch im Settings Verzeichnis im GD Ordner sind und nicht mehr im Settings Verzeichnis des Benutzerordners.
Viel Glück, mehr fällt mir dann auch nimmer ein.
Wir hatten mal in den Anfangstagen von GrimUI ein ähnliches Problem mit den beiden Verzeichnissen. Daher fiel mir das ein.
Hi Xeaker, hi WareBare
GD uses 2 directories to store user settings.
One is the one mentioned above in the GD folder.
The other is a legacy from development to make it easier for modders to save custom settings, and Crate left it active.
C:\Users\YOUR USERNAME HERE\Documents\My Games\Grim Dawn\Settings
check there to see if there are any old things from the former German translation in there. They used to be colored with Rainbow and stored there.
Since the translation is now “in play” and WareBare has also “adapted” the tool here, the old stuff has to go out there.
GD reads the user settings first. If there is something else in there, there will be overlaps. I can’t imagine anything else.
The files had the following format:
v1197_community_german_e_20230204.zip
For the colored files, their name was also included in their names.
If that’s still there, get rid of that stuff.
Ideally, if you have nothing else, there are only the settings files (inis) in the user directory. They absolutely have to stay there. These are your options and key bindings etc.
But the old translations are out. And have the WareBares tool recreate them so that they are only in the Settings directory in the GD folder and no longer in the Settings directory of the user folder.
Good luck, I can’t think of anything else.
We had a similar problem with the two directories in the early days of GrimUI. That’s why this occurred to me.
You might have the same issue somebody else had, just copy that folder over to the my games (from that middle screenshot), if that works - add the path inside the program for User Data, so you don’t have to copy it over each time.
Are you on Win 11, because iirc they were.
I deleted old entries but still not working.
If I use the Full Rainbow Color it works fine, but if I wanna use my own color scheme it does not work??
Hmm, gut aber da musst Du auf WareBares Antwort warten.
Mehr weiß ich da auch nicht.
Elemental/Physical Damage over Time and Elemental/Physical Direct Damage are overwriting the colors for their respective types of everything that comes after it. Unassign them and assign them again to put them at the end.
The test for Cold/Lightning:
Did not work for me.
Elemental and Bleed/Pierce is not working for me.
I put Pierce/Bleeding in red but ingame they are different colors.
And elemental is always yellow does not matter what I put there
Hey! I’ve used Rainbow Filter many years ago, and I don’t quite remember how it was before, but I have a question regarding skill bonuses - is this normal how I have it? I installed the tool and used it with Full Rainbow preset. I’ve checked both My Games as well as steamapps directories to see if anything is overwriting anything else, doesn’t seem to be the case.
It seems inconsistent at least, check image below, I’ve marked the spots… Hopefully I am just doing something wrong, but scrolling through and googling didn’t seem to give me anything related to this “problem” (if it even is a problem?).
Die Einstellungen für Elemental/Physical Damage over Time und Elemental/Physical Direct Damage müssen nach dem Schadenstyp kommen oder es überschreibt ihn. Mal ganz abgesehen davon brauchst du die nichtmal. Du hast jeden Schadenstyp festgelegt und der Hauptnutzen für diese kam durch Basic Highlightning.
Other Damage over Time und Other Direct Damage hat auch keinen Effekt wo es bei dir ist, da du Chaos/Aether/Acid gesetzt hast und diese haben die korrekte Farbe, denn die beiden sind am Ende.
Du kannst dir die Kopfschmerzen für die X Damage over Time und X Direct Damage aber vollkommen ersparen, Rainbow ist die Grundlage und alles was du brauchst um alles einzufärben wie du es haben willst. Der einzige Grund für diese “Globaleren” Möglichkeiten ist um mehrere Typen einfacher zu färben, z.B. alle DoT Typen einheitlich zu färben und nur die direkten Schadenstypen unterschiedlich zu haben (in dem Falle würde man X Damage over Time am Anfang haben).
Entweder machste nen neues Profil basierend auf Rainbow, oder du ziehst die Globalen Dinger raus.
That’s just the game default iirc. Mastery Marker in the tool would change the color for those. Exception are greyed out affixes, those colors are hardcoded.
Oh that is just perfect. Thank you very much!
That’s how it looks now. Much better!
https://i.imgur.com/9iLIPN2.png
Thanks for the guidance!
Danke, hab die Dinger entfernt und jetzt funzt alles. 
newbie here how to put back item color highlights ot background ?
That has nothing to do with Rainbow, it only changes texts. You have something else that does that, mod, UI or just corrupted files.
Program updates itself, keep in mind colors need to be saved manually after it has finished updating.
You can find all downloads in the First Post or on GitHub.
Note: Change Log can also be found on GitHub and inside the program.
