Improve startbox graphics

[salinecitrine]

Description

There are several ways to accomplish this. Here are some examples:

• Instead of drawing green/red over placeable ally/enemy areas, darken areas that are not placeable for the current player. Enemy boxes could possibly have patterned darkness. This option is my personal preference.
• Instead of drawing the whole area green/red, only draw the outline, so that most of the enclosed area looks normal. @loveridge has made something like this, mentioned here: https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/724293659809284137/1266209734126735442

The solution primarily has to address the "Why?" section below.

Why?

The current green/red box style:

• Interferes with existing graphics or UI that is on the map; for example, start position circles, or even some terrain. Anything drawn in blue or green within a green start box becomes practically invisible. We should be making the areas that players are interacting with as clear as possible, to make understanding and interacting with that area easier.
• Draws focus towards the center of the map, instead of the actual startboxes. We should be guiding players' focus towards their own start box.
• Looks unpolished compared to much of the rest of the game (understandable, since the code is ~15 years old). This seems like a relatively low-effort way to improve a very common component of the BAR experience.

Current graphics, with start position widget:

What area of the game does this feature request pertain?

Graphics, UI/UX

Other (optional)

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[MeSaber]

As the start boxes ATM is only a box, isnt it enough to just make a colored outline instead of filling whole terrain with color?

[salinecitrine]

As the start boxes ATM is only a box, isnt it enough to just make a colored outline instead of filling whole terrain with color?

That would be an improvement over the current version (though I think we can do even better). It sounds similar to what lov has made, which I think is a tweak of the original widget:

Looks like there's some discussion here, too: https://discord.com/channels/549281623154229250/551411485901979659/1266438868358664293