Guide to updating the mod for WarPlan updates and using for different scenarios

In case I'm not around for a while or you want to use the map mod for scenarios other than the one provided here is how.

First go into the WarPlan campaign folder, it should be located at C:\Users\USERNAME\Documents ...

No plans for the Pacific.

I'll see if I can post an updated version today that includes the changes from the latest update.

I'll also post a quick tutorial on how to do it as well, so you can apply it to any update or scenario yourself.

Thanks.

No plans for a counter set right now, just using PHalens myself.

Using Affinity Designer. Basically a subscription free version of Photoshop/Illustrator.

v2 out with some minor fixes and new AA guns. Updated main post and added some alternate versions to download.

Cheers. I'll upload all three in the next day or two. I've reworked the colours of the terrain, and lowered the brightness of the base tiles and the ocean, it was just a little too glarey in play. I've figured out how to replace the AA markers so I'll make some that fit the theme and upload it ...

And another that just colour codes the terrain type. The brown is probably too strong here though.

I've quickly knocked up another couple of versions.

This is the current version with darker tones representing higher elevation/rougher terrain. Based on a bunch of board games and used in maps like this:
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Greyish base map using lighter brown tones for ...

That's interesting. It appears that there are two camps on elevation. I've got a copy of Combat Commander here that uses darker colours to represent higher elevation, so it's not an unusual way to depict it.

What colour scheme would you use to represent it that way? Would the base map colour be a ...

There's a few board games that use a similar approach to elevation, Liberty Roads is one. I think the inverse of this would probably be quite ugly. I had initially used a three tone system of brown, grey and white for the three levels which I thought looked pretty neat too.

I tried using little ...

Zovs wrote: Fri Apr 22, 2022 3:00 pm I like this a lot better!

Yeah I think I do too. I played with the colours a bit more and think I've settled on something that looks good.

Map is released now! I've posted it to the correct forum: https://www.matrixgames.com/forums/view ... 7#p4989917

ALTERNATE ELEVATION 1:
Topographic style where darker brown represents higher elevation.

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DOWNLOAD:
https://www.mediafire.com/file/ikahmx9zo4lacew/Alternate_Elevation_1.zip/file


ALTERNATE ELEVATION 2:
Topographic style where lighter brown represents higher ...

Update:
Version 3 includes scenario and map changes up to 1.00.17.01

I've always liked my war games to look like board games, so I've made a mod for those of us who prefer the more classic style.

I've modified cities, roads and rail, icons, borders, sea-land edge, beaches, well everything. Hills ...

What a slog, just Turkey, middle east and North Africa to go. Hopefully all done this weekend.

Referencing a height map while painting the hills and mountains, so everything should roughly feel right. No tile types changes, only the graphics. Painstaking.

Trialing out height map colours.

Most tiles except for a handful are done, pending changes. I think this is the best I can do with hills and mountains, not sure on the colours yet.

In the progress of painting the map right now.

Below is a comparison with vanilla. The new map is a little noiser than I'd hoped.

You can always change the alpha on the control.png to zero.

Perhaps the Alpine tile should be a two lighter browns to white, so it feels contoured from hills.

I'd still prefer to have a usable control view though I feel a bit lost without it.

Need some opinions on this.

There are obviously ...

Wow. BTW there is a text toggle in the editor to make the letters black on the map.

Map Edit -> lower left says Default Test Colorization


I had tried both but each has their drawbacks.

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Note I still haven't cleaned these areas up. The black tends to clash with the land-sea edges ...

Just saw the Spain pic, mountains could use another color, let me see if I can find a pic somewhere.


I'm thinking of using brown for hills, dark grey for mountains and light/whitish grey for alpine, that way there is a clear distinction what each tile is. It takes just a few minutes to modify ...

Here's Spain and a very rough proof of concept for mountains and hills.

I've also moved the beaches onto the ocean tiles along with the borders. This prevents terrain from overriding the beach, so we can now actually see the beaches south of Lisbon and around Barcelona.

I think I'd like to connect ...

Nearing the finish line.

In Germany we see the new border and a bunch of the new slightly reworked resource icons with stronger borders and larger numbers.

Around Denmark there's the new convoy graphics (a dot...) and the new mines icons.

North Africa shows the now completed road and rail ...