More clear minimap Mod

[welk]

I discovered the game this day (Thanks to Doom [:)] ) and I have to say it's a great PC wargame, I will try to mod it as I did for Commander Europe at War. The system is very funny and I love the large big map, it's the first time I may deploy all my panzer div. on a large scale in Europe [:D]

At this time, I am learning on Slitherine and Matrix forum, to take some lessons of "ToF modding" (I saw some excellent works, by specialists[8D]) and I will do my own graph mod in some days.

But here is my first (and very little [:D] ) contribution : a more clear minimap (you have just to download it and to copy it in the directory of the scenario you want to play.

http://www.leqg.org/forum/download/file.php?id=939

http://img804.imageshack.us/img804/6898/screente.jpg

My goal in ToF modding will be to give the game a look of classical wargame, with "pastel" colors. I will also modify 2 or 3 things in the interface buttons, etc : I want the player have the exact impression to play a good old "board-wagame".

In addition, I think that my boss and my wife will be hungry against Doom, because now, my nights are for ToF, not for sleeping [>:][:'(]

[Magpius]

Great news.
welcome aboard.

[welk]

Hello, Agent S. For my work, I will start from your TOW map/unit mod, that it is included in the game : it's the mod that is the more close of a "classic wargame look". My goal will be to keep hex grid but to avoid a too high "hexagon effect", and pastel colors will be good for that, I think. On other of my "obsessions" wille be to give "all awailable space on map" for map (I will modify the look of interface buttons, that are a little too large in my opinion (I will reduce only buttons, but "space buttons" for mouse will stay in place, that is the essential thing). The only thing I do not very love in modding for this game is all the "txt color parts" and "position icons, text parts"etc, it seems a little complicated to work on (long work in lot of little code lines, not for me[:-], I am more interrested by graph mods.

[Magpius]

not sure blog link is working

[welk]

It's a old link, from the time I modded the very old game "Imperialism" , I will erase it[:D]

[Magpius]

pity, i'd like to have seen some more of your work.