My Counters Mod

[Bleck]

ORIGINAL: swatter555
I am wondering why aircraft counters no longer display type (div/corps)?

Because they don't have any

[Erik Rutins]

That's looking great, Swatter!

[Michael the Pole]

Swatter, are you using a different color for Americans and Limeys? "Cause if you are, I can't tell it. Off the cuff, I didn't recognize any US combat units, but I think that there were some aircraft and they looked the same to me as the Brits.
Love the aircraft silhouettes, though. I assume that you're using a 2 engine type for bombers and a 4 engine silhouette for Strat Bombers. Suggest you try a Mosquito for the normal bombers, that reverse swept wing is easy to distinguish
Great job.

[swatter555]

ORIGINAL: Michael the Pole

Swatter, are you using a different color for Americans and Limeys? "Cause if you are, I can't tell it. Off the cuff, I didn't recognize any US combat units, but I think that there were some aircraft and they looked the same to me as the Brits.
Love the aircraft silhouettes, though. I assume that you're using a 2 engine type for bombers and a 4 engine silhouette for Strat Bombers. Suggest you try a Mosquito for the normal bombers, that reverse swept wing is easy to distinguish
Great job.

In the Overlord scenario, the Allies are just one country. In the grand campaign, the US is olive green and the brits are brown. Also, keep in mind that I can only affect the color on the symbol, not the background on the counter itself. The fighters are P-51s, the tacs are Mosquitos (just very pixelated), and the strats are B-17s. The bad thing about some aircraft siloeuttes is that they get too pixelated when they get small.

If anyone wants to submit any A/C siloeuttes that are better than mine, please do I will include them. Keep in mind they will need to be about 25x20.

[H. Hoth]

ORIGINAL: Michael the Pole

As someone who is completely awestruck by anyone who can get a computer to draw a tic-tac-toe board, I think that the whole thing is amazing. I hope that Swatter is working on an update, and I cant wait to see what Uxbridge comes up with.

I have some suggestions/reminders, though. You need to be able to distinguish between strategic bombers, bombers and fighters (we've apparently abandoned the idea of ground attack aircraft in 1.60) I've always had problems distinguishing between battle units and patrol units and even subs. For all of us old color blind farts, it helps to use radically different colors for each country. (I was having a tough time distinguishing Swatter's Russiams from Americans from British troops.) It would sure be nice if you could put some sort of symbol on the counters to distinguish SS and Soviet Gaurd units from the "goats." I thought Swatter's black armored symbols would be kool -- perhaps all black NATO symbals for SS and all red for Soviet Gaurds?
Thanks in advance for all your hard work![&o]

and even subs....yep you are a Polish lawyer.

[Magpius]

Chill out H.H

[swatter555]

Ok, I decided to put some time into them and get something I really liked. The counters are a little bigger and all pertinent info fits on the counter. Here is a zoomed in screen from Overlord.

[swatter555]

It still looks real good as you unzoom to just below the next major zoom level. The forum pictures don't do it enough justice.

[Bleck]

Also, keep in mind that I can only affect the color on the symbol, not the background on the counter itself

Color of counter background is taken from countries.csv in each scenario (first color written in hex format).

You can also make all counters using the same color by placing background (whole or just part of it, also using transparency if you want to blend with colorized background) behind every symbol. This is because game is drawing unit in this order:
1. Background (colorized to country color)
2. Symbol (not colorized)
3. Flag
4. All other symbols from info.png
5. Texts (name, AP and strength)

[NefariousKoel]

Good stuff Swatter!

If I may make a suggestion..  Perhaps reducing the size of the armored unit's (and mech unit's) inner symbol?  Or making it more oval?  I guess it's just preference..

[Tomokatu]

Am I pushing too hard, swatter, if I ask how development on your counters, suitable for Patch 1.6, is progressing?
I was so impressed with your designs for V1,5 that I want to continue using them in V1.6.

[Michael the Pole]

I love it too.

I really don't understand HH's major malfunction other than adolescence (I hope). He remids me of Sam Clemens' statement that "It is better to keep your mouth closed and let people think you are a fool than to open it and remove all doubt."

[willgamer]

Swatter,

Add me to the list of fans who was using your counters pre-patch [:)] and would love to use them again with 1.6. [&o]

[swatter555]

No! Not the pressure!!

Hehe, not a problem. I reworked them a little bit more and slacked off because the patch took forever to come out. I have a few countries done and the rest shouldn't take too long. The counters are a little more intricate than the last time and therfore take a little longer to do. I am yearning to play the patched version myself, so don't distress, I will finish soon.

[swatter555]

To be specific, I will plan to finish by this coming weekend (16/17). It takes me about an hour to do a unique country, and I probably have another 5 or 6 unique ones to do.

[Tomokatu]

YAAAAYYYYY!!!!!
 
Take the whole week and get 'em right. (No pressure!)
Hell, Take TWO as long as you keep us No, just ME! updated on progress. [:'(]
Wouldn't like to think of you falling asleep under your mushroom and missing a whole year.

[von Schmidt]

As yet another fan of your mod, I look forward to the 1.6 version.
Thanks for your efforts!

Cheers,

-von Schmidt

[swatter555]

Almost done, definately by Friday.